Bootable multi-architecture USB HDD: i386 and macppc

2005-09-04 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I have an external USB 2.0 HDD on which I have successfully installed OpenBSD/i386 3.7. Is it possible to install both OpenBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/macppc on one such drive in such a way that it will be possible to connect the HDD to either i386 or PowerPC G4 computer and boot it either way?

Creating an MSDOS partiotion on OpenBSD

2005-09-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I have an OpenBSD 3.7 i386 installation on an external usb-enclosure. I have some space left, and I would like to create an msdos partition (to transfer files between windows and OpenBSD). I have tried to create one using OpenBSD's fdisk; then I have formatted the new partition in windows

OpenBSD i386 and macppc on one HDD

2005-10-08 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I have an external USB 2.0 storage device with OpenBSD i386 installation and some free space. Is it possible to install OpenBSD/macppc on that spare space without breaking my i386 installation? How will it all work? Would it be possible to share /etc, /var and /home partitions between

Re: OpenBSD's 10th birthday

2005-10-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Congrats from Mongolia. and Happy birthday from Sweden! And from a Norwegian in exile in Australia! Happy birthday! And from a Russian in Leicester, England! Happy birthday, OpenBSD!!! Thanks to Theo and all of the developers, it would not have happen without all of you chaps. ;-)

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 19/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to 15 seconds or less. Nonsense. Just because your MS Outlook does not support or is not configured to support bottom-posting, doesn't mean that you should

Re: Enhanced Speed Step Technology

2005-11-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/11/05, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, Per-Olov Sjvholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what Dell says in the server manuals about enabling this feature in bios: --snip-- NOTICE: Before enabling the Speed Step option, ensure that the operating system also

Re: sensorsd says the sensor is within limit, but it's not...

2007-07-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/07/07, Per-Olov Sjvholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Misc I am probably missing something, but what.. sensorsd says in the syslog that the sensor is within limits even though a sysctl -a|grep sensor shows that it is not. Are there any known bugs? I have checked the list and cannot

Re: sensorsd says the sensor is within limit, but it's not...

2007-07-04 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 04/07/07, Per-Olov Sjvholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesdayen den 4 July 2007 04.17.30 you wrote: Please, check the manual page for your system [0], specifically, the following: Sensors that provide status (such as from bio(4), esm(4), or ipmi(4)) do not require boundary

Re: Linux Driver Violates BSD License

2007-08-29 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 29/08/2007, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/07, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I wouldn't repeat undeadly stuff here on misc@, but I'm sure many of you will want to know. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20070829001634 And if you

Re: Asus Striker Extreme does not support 4GB memory

2007-08-31 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 31/08/2007, Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be a retarted question, but can a Intel quad core run amd64 just as i386 doesn't run on 80386, amd64 does run on Intel Core 2 processors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 C.

Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/1/07, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to run strings on windows command line utilities. You'll see that they preserved the copyrights as required. Could somebody please explain about Running Strings? tvc: {2476}

Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:08:46PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:39:28AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: In the case of the later 3 files, their copyright notice says: at your choice you may

Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Martin Schrvder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/9/2, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you want your modifications to be licensed differently, then you would have to put a new licence on top of existing licensing text, as far I as understand. This is how it's often

Re: Fwd: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When companies have taken our wireless device drivers, many many of them have given changes and fixes back. Some maybe didn't, but that is OK. When Linux took our changes back, they immediately locked the door against changes moving back,

Re: ath5k license revised

2007-09-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/09/07, Gregg Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wirelessm=118857712529898w=2 This is kinda old news: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=118866496716802w=2 The interesting thing, though, is to notice that: 1. Jiri, the original author of the infamous GPLv2

Re: ath5k license revised

2007-09-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/09/07, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wirelessm=118857712529898w=2 IANAL (nor a party to this so ICBW), but AFAICS the SFLC told them to DTRT. In this whole discussion, I really like the following quote

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 16/09/2007, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:17:41AM -0400, Eben Moglen wrote: We will make no more public statements until the work is complete, and we will be neither hurried nor intimidated by people who shout at us instead of helping.

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26/09/2007, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [diverted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:08:41AM -0700, big one wrote: | OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) had released XO AMD Geode LX Laptops | using G1G1 (Buy 2 Get 1). One laptop will be sent to the buyer and the | 2nd

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26/09/2007, Joshua Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I've missed something but what makes it impossible to write a device driver for the Wireless chipset? Nothing is impossible, but the problem is that so many parts of the OLPC hardware are proprietary and without readily available

Re: Venezuala Change to GMT -4:30

2007-10-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/10/2007, Julian Bolivar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this month Caracas/Venezuela change to GMT -4:30, anyone know if this change will be included in the next openbsd release? Any country that changes the timezones without an advance notice is asking for an IT disaster. The whole story

Re: Speeding up OBSD bootup

2007-10-06 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 06/10/2007, Karel Kulhavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to specify the kernel that the hardware for which there are drivers probing for but I don't have in my PC is absent? Since OBSD has no suspend to disk/RAM, the bootup speed is critical when working with a laptop in public

Re: OpenBSD XSS ;)

2007-10-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/10/2007, Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/10/10, Can Erkin Acar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this case, if you have some web application on the same *domain name* then the XSS can be used to take control of the user session on the

Re: vr driver trouble on Soekris 5501

2007-10-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/10/2007, Christian Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Today something strange happened on one of my Soekris 5501 boxes, it runs OpenBSD 4.1-stable. The box is connected with a cross-over cable to another machine via the vr1 interface (the box has 4 vr interfaces). Problem: After

Re: machine which freeze with openbsd 4.2

2007-10-22 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 21/10/2007, Matthieu Herrb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/21/07, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicolas Letellier wrote: Firas Kraiem a icrit : Salut ;) I have the very same problem on my laptop (running 4.2) and I've discovered that the freezings stop if I'm not

Re: djbdns DNS server? Status, Pros and Cons?

2005-05-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 25/05/05, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJB should get around to adding decent IPv6, but only after he gets Which he isn't going to do until interoperability issues between IPv4 and IPv6 are resolved. :-) http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html Cheers, Constantine.

Spam message got through to the announce list

2005-05-28 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I got a spam message from the announce list. Isn't it moderated? Cheers, Constantine. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from shear.ucar.edu (shear.ucar.edu [192.43.244.163]) by my.domain (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4T2oUOC017793 for my.address; Sun, 29 May

Your worst dream comes true, thanks to Intel

2005-05-30 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Intel announced its new dual-core Intel Pentium D processors and 945 chipsets, and combination thereof by the names of Lyndon and Anchor Creek. However, sources indicate that being dual-core is not the major feature of the new technologies. Guess what is? DRM. Yes, the one that might very well

Re: Stephanie for OpenBSD 3.6 released

2005-06-04 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 15/10/04, br1an [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephanie for OpenBSD 3.6 is released I got this six-months-old message this evening... Has someone invented a time-machine? :-) Cheers, Constantine.

Re: OpenNTPd issue

2005-06-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/06/05, Kvvesdan Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually I use FreeBSD. So, I've installed OpenNTPd from ports collection, and it synchronizes my servers time correctly, but I can't sync to the server. I've tried it with a windows-client, and the error message was the following: The

Re: Theo gave an interview to Forbes Mag. about Linux

2005-06-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 18/06/05, Harry Tormey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The register has put up a very lazy opinion piece on the article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/17/de_raadt_channels_ballmer/ In it they dismiss Theo as a bitter, egotistical, Steve Ballmeresque character. Ah well, the register =

Re: Release/version/patch management question

2005-07-08 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/07/05, Markus Wernig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: 2) I assume that the answer to the following question is yes, but I'd like to double-check: Is there really no way to upgrade a single package/program to a recent version in a consistent way? No. There is no

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

2005-11-28 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 28/11/05, Jeremy David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/05, Eric Faurot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/05, Jeremy David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea has been mentioned in this thread that it's too difficult to make websites work in multiple browsers and still be valid. That

Re: afterboot(8) message missing?

2005-12-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/12/05, Tobias Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:55:52PM +0001, Jason McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:38:57PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: No, but to the dot.login and dot.profile files in the same directory. # chsh -s /bin/csh root (login on

OT: VIA EPIA with VIA C7, for an OpenBSD multipurpose firewall: where?

2005-12-21 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, Does anyone have any news on VIA C7, or VIA EPIA platform in general? The current offers are so outdated, they still don't offer gigabit ethernet in most solutions, and the things that are offered are indeed overpriced (whereas VIA C3 is supposed to be a really cheap solution, it looks

Re: Weird Issue with FTP and pf(8)

2005-12-22 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 22/12/05, eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's something strange. I'm trying to connect from a pf gateway to an ftp server and it's failing in a very specific manner. Going through the pf gateway works fine using passive mode, but from the gateway itself using ftp(1) doesn't seem to work.

Apple MacBook Pro support

2006-01-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi, I know it's kind of early, but is OpenBSD/i386 going to run peacefully on the yesterday-announced Apple MacBook Pro, or for that matter the iMac with Intel Code Duo processor? :-) Anyone has any plans on this matter? Cheers, Constantine.

Re: OpenBSD VMWare image too popular

2006-01-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 09/01/06, Shane J Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Julien, On 09/01/2006, at 7:26 PM, Julien Bonastre wrote: I can actually fully understand your disapproval at the idea of using a torrent to distribute this file, and I can also emphasise with your dislikening of trying to

OT: Linus chose to reject GPL v3

2006-01-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
It's a bit offtopic, but after some speculation in one slashdot-like local forum, I've come to a conclusion that Linus has now rejected GPL v3 for the same reasons that Theo rejects GPL in general, and Apache 2 licence in particular. :-) Well, I assume, it's a good start for them. :-)

Re: BSD on x86 and virus

2006-02-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/02/06, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, BSD on x86 has also suffered at the hands of these maniac virus coders, so much so that there are hardly any BSD x86 web servers on the web that haven't been repeatedly p0wned.

Upgrading 3.6 to 3.8, and compiling -current

2006-02-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, At a remote location, I have two boxes that are connected with each other via a serial cable, and through a router to the internet. One of the boxes is OpenBSD 3.6, and I'd like to upgrade it to 3.8, and then compile -current (I want to play with the kernel alongside sensors.h / lm(4)).

Re: Upgrading 3.6 to 3.8, and compiling -current

2006-02-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 11/02/06, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hardly an expert so I hope you get some other opinions but here are my thoughts: On 2/10/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At a remote location, I have two boxes that are connected with each other via a serial cable

iwi(4): man-page needs update, Peter's address @intel does not work

2006-02-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Our friend Peter seems to be gone or is hiding: Intel no longer accepts mail for his account as listed in manuals for ipw(4) and iwi(4). URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=109994542424009w=2 (2004-11-08) Cheers, Constantine. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mail

Re: higher resolution on tty

2006-02-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/02/06, Moritz Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, i want to set up my screen resolution on tty to 1024x768 and smaller fonts, because i only work on tty on this maschine and this big fonts are a very bad on a 10,4 display. So is there a way to get this work. Because i don't find

Re: sensorsd

2007-03-24 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 24/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In /etc/sensorsd.conf hw.sensors.3:low=4.8V:high=5.2V:command=/bin/sh /etc/sensorsd/notify In /etc/sensorsd/notify #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/tail -n 25 /var/log/daemon | /usr/bin/grep sensorsd | /usr/ bin/grep exceed /etc/sensorsd/`date

Re: sensorsd

2007-03-24 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 24/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 24, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: I'm surprised you've got any emails from those exceeds at all, because the sensors that you have warnings for do not match the one's you claim you are monitoring in sensorsd.conf

Re: www.openbsd.org (and vs openbsd.org)

2007-05-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/05/07, Emilio Perea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:10:13AM +0200, Martin Toft wrote: Nobody answered my second question though :) Maybe nobody knows the answer? :) Summary: I was once told not to use openbsd.org; it was said that www.openbsd.org was the only valid

Re: sensorsd shutting computer down

2007-05-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 27/05/07, Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Last update (~2 weeks ago) and the one from last night result in sensorsd shutting down my PC within 2 to 4 minutes after booting up. Now /etc/sensorsd.conf has an entry in it that I added to safely shut the computer down if the CPU gets too

Re: sensors process use 10% CPU time and high memory

2007-06-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 11/06/07, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Jean-Girard Pailloncy wrote: Hi, I have 3 Tyan Trinity GC-SL boxes with OpenBSD 4.1. sensors kernel process use 10% of the CPU time and have RES high up to 74 MB. I did not have a sensorsd daemon runing. I do the same on my soekris,

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 27/06/07, Daniel Horecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, what about Transmeta? Check the news: On February 7, 2007, Transmeta closed its engineering services departments and terminated 75 employees. The company announced that it would no longer develop and sell hardware, but would focus

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 27/06/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you make more money if your widgets break because your new widget is vastly improved. new packaging, same great defects! The best thing about computer parts randomly failing will hit us in a few years, due to RoHS directives:

Re: watchdog sysctl missing?

2008-01-19 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 19/01/2008, Richard Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running 4.2-stable (Jan 13). sysctl: kern.watchdog.auto kern.watchdog.period These sysctl's are no longer available? I didn't notice if it's just in this build or something changed in 4.1 or 4.2, but I know 4.0 has it and the man page

Re: OpenCVS?

2008-01-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20 Jan 2008 10:15:15 -0800, Unix Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: See for yourself: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/cvs/ I'm slighly confused by something if the cvs command in OpenBSD 4.2 is OpenCVS, why does cvs --help refer to places like

Re: anoncvs asking for password

2008-02-24 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 24/02/2008, Chris Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of a sudden when using cvs (via ssh) to update the src tree (following the instructions on http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld) I am prompted for a password. Several different mirrors same issue. anoncvs.ca.openbsd.org is being

Re: Sensors support on proliant DL380 G2

2008-03-08 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 08/03/2008, Ruan Kendall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I've tried both 4.2 and 4.3 snapshot on this slightly aged proliant I've obtained, and most things have worked very well but for the total absense of any sensor information. Is this because a) I've not done something terribly

Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I have a box with 512MB of RAM, which is running a snapshot from 2006-02-13. The box does not get used much, so most of the RAM stays still, i.e. not used by the userland. I am now quite surprised why OpenBSD does not use all of this RAM for disc cache etc. After rebooting the system,

Re: viasio hw.sensors problem

2006-02-19 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 15/02/06, Sable Keech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TEMP1 is not shown when calling sysctl hw.sensors. If I combine the command with 'openssl speed' it shows the temperature. Bad hardware? (new board, didn't run openbsd on it before, so i dont know if it ever worked.) viasio0 at isa0 port

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/02/06, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:17:05PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: [...] Yes, there is always some compromise. But in this specific case we have much less than even a fifth of memory actually being used for programmes

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/02/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/02/20 13:17, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: And 512MB, I must add, is the de facto minimum today for any machine, For Windows PCs, maybe... Of the machines I have running OpenBSD, 64MB is the most common RAM size, and those boxes

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/02/06, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:49:01PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: [...] If this is a common state of affairs, you can always raise the percentage of memory used for the buffer cache in the kernel, using config -e

Re: IPv6 question - related to the talk of van hauser at the 22C3

2006-02-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Van Hauser held a speach at the 22C3 about attacking IPv6. He also said that even OpenBSD is affected by some of the attacks. A working stream can be found here:

Re: IPv6 question - related to the talk of van hauser at the 22C3

2006-02-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 27/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Van Hauser held a speach at the 22C3 about attacking IPv6. He also said that even OpenBSD is affected by some of the attacks. A working stream can be found here:

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/03/06, Graham Toal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I do believe in Backup MX, as long as it does proper relay checking. It's nice if it also does spam checking, but not critical because your primary MX will still do that. However Do you know just how disturbing it is to receive

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/03/06, Graham Toal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ host -t mx stonehenge.com stonehenge.com mail is handled by 666 spamtrap.stonehenge.com. stonehenge.com mail is handled by 5 blue.stonehenge.com. Any mail delivered to spamtrap gets the following response: 450 Violation of RFC2821

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/03/06, David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:38:09PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: Graham, You seem to have some contradicting views on the matter. What is the difference between greylisting and the aforementioned spamtrapping approach? Isn't

Re: Pre-orders for our releases.

2006-03-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/03/06, Wijnand Wiersma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/06, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But financially we are under strain, and it is not letting us grow any of our bigger plans. It sounds like you really have big plans. Maybe it is a good idea to tell about

Re: Pre-orders for our releases.

2006-03-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/03/06, A Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A thought suddenly occurs. Perhaps big companies that use OpenBSD do not want to disclose their use by donating because they fear that this might give their competitors an advantage(now their competitors know what OS they're using), or might help

Re: using openbsd on zaurus

2006-03-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/03/06, Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've another question regarding compatbility with some websites using some annoying third-party technologies like flash and java. Unfortunately to get some info or make reservations online you can't avoid these flash and java websites. I

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-14 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/03/06, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you say that? Gnumeric works nicely under Linux. No problem at all. If something is broken, it is broken. Period. Just because it seems to work on Linux every time you try it, doesn't mean that they have no programming mistakes in the

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-14 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 14/03/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/03/06, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you say that? Gnumeric works nicely under Linux. No problem at all. If something is broken, it is broken. Period. Just because it seems to work on Linux every time you try

Re: Reminder about the X Aperture

2006-03-16 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 16/03/06, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be we just run a workstation dedicated to remotely connect to other workstations, or servers that run X server only where it's needed and that have no video card in these servers or workstations! (: Ugh, you aren't supposed to run the X

UKUUG Spring Conference 2006: photo-reportage

2006-03-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi! I trust everyone had a lot of fun at the recent UKUUG LISA conference! I've depicted some of this fun in the photographs, and here you can see what you have missed if you have not attended: URL:http://mojo.ru/uk/uug/2006-03/ ;) Having this opportunity, I would also like to thank everyone

Re: Support the project by buying from store or make donations

2006-03-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 27/03/06, Luca Losio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's always the polo shirt, or since you're in Europe, some of the gear on https://kd85.com/notforsale.html perhaps. Pics of the stuff? The first link from the above page: http://images.kd85.com/notforsale/

OpenSSH funding: Mark Shuttleworth?

2006-03-28 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Has anyone contacted Mark Shuttleworth for OpenSSH funding? I think there is a very high probability that he would be happy to help OpenSSH, maybe even pay someone fulltime to work on it... (I remember from the beginning of 2004 that Shuttleworth was paying some bugzilla developer such as to quit

Re: rotating apache logs

2006-03-31 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 31/03/06, Hiro Protagonist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: below a small piece of code i found somewhere. It works but mayby you wanna fix something. [piece of code was here] Why bother with manually compiling some third-party utility, when rotatelogs(8) is already included with apache, see

Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one

2006-04-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/04/06, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 00:15:02 +0100 Andrew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Linus faces this issue with future versions of Linux, he doesn't like GPL 3 and won't accept it but he can't take GPL 2 off Linux kernel since it is an evolving project and

Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one

2006-04-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/04/06, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It means that a file with only #include statements is hardly copyrightable and can be copied at will. Can it really? I guess if in the end you make it KNF compliant and the order of the various includes are changed, but are the exact same

Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one

2006-04-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
If you want a good insight on the issue of legal implications of creating derivative/non-derivative works with functionality that is present in existing implementations, I suggest that you follow the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, the arguments around the issue are very relevant to your question. For

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-16 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 16/04/06, Robert Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so. In some cases the GSoC was not a real success. Just check the mozilla SoC. People create broken stuff and wanted their money. Then they just disappeared. OpenBSD wants people who love to hack on stuff and not just hack

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/05/06, Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: privileges to replace your compiler with backdoored one, he has another 65535 ways to abuse your box. Did you mean 65536 ways? Anyhow, I doubt many people nowadays have 16-bit boxes on public networks. :)

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/05/06, jared r r spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:33:48AM -0400, jared r r spiegel wrote: i am not asserting that the compromise-pack did not have a precompiled sshd binary for openbsd ( the prior hop up the compromise chain in this case was a

Re: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/05/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: once again, nothing changed. if it wasn't enabled in 3.8, it's not enabled in 3.9 and it's not going to get enabled in 3.A. eghhh... Is this the start of the version naming debate again? :) What was the conclusion from the last time? ;)

Re: Removing a misconfigured list member? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 22/03/06, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:55:39AM +0059, Han Boetes wrote: Keith Richardson wrote: Hannah wrote: Mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't work either (similar loop error message). So could one please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/05/06, jared r r spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:49:07PM +0100, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 02/05/06, jared r r spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if we didn't have that little PIII/450 sitting next to the machine now, for the purposes of bringing

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/05/06, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/2/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing is trusting the updated hostkey. Imagine you are a sysadmin at a university. Do you keep the old hostkey when you reinstall the system on a specific host? What about

Re: OT: Thoe's x commit and homeland security audit

2006-05-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/05/06, Ste Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Theo the automated code scanner mentioned here? http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060502/tc_zd/177195 In reference to this commit http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/XF4/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c.diff?r1=1.13r2=1.14 7 days

Re: OT: Thoe's x commit and homeland security audit

2006-05-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/05/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/05/06, Ste Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Theo the automated code scanner mentioned here? http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060502/tc_zd/177195 In reference to this commit http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/XF4/xc/programs

Re: www.openbsd.org defaults to Japanese

2006-05-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/05/06, chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let other people think[0] ... [0] and use Windows... Think Different! :)

Re: OpenBSD Order 2006/3/14-9:0:5-16439

2006-05-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/05/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/5/06, Gustavo Rios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to know how long should i wait before i receive my CD set? Is there any reason for the delay? Comments: Midia and Software costs should be listed separated. see, here's your

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

2006-05-07 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/05/06, dave feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After running kde on 3.9 I found the following error messages in the kde error log: kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/etc/samba/smb.conf' kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle

Re: Network problems

2006-05-07 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/05/06, dave feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to 3.9 yesterday and today I am having severe network problems. This has been happening for the past week, but is now much worse. Browser requests take forever Clearly, it's OpenBSD's fault. Try downgrading to 3.8, or 3.7, or

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

2006-05-07 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/05/06, Ilija Liebermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:35 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: On May 7, 2006, at 11:18 AM, dave feustel wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 10:53, Jason Dixon wrote: On May 7, 2006, at 10:38 AM, dave feustel wrote: After running kde on 3.9 I found

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

2006-05-07 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/05/06, dave feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:16, D. E. Evans wrote: Why are you repeating your question when you've already been answered? OK I didn't get it the first time. What was the answer? Google is the answer. :)

NSTX: IP-over-DNS on *BSD?

2006-05-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi! I'm wondering if there is a port of NSTX server and client for *BSD systems? (I'd like to set-up OpenBSD as the server, and OpenBSD or OS X 10.4 as the client.) The stuff that I've downloaded from http://nstx.dereference.de/nstx/nstx-1.1-beta6.tgz says that it's linux only. P.S. Are there

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-05-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 11/05/06, rjn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking into getting a new laptop (I start college in the fall). [...] On 11/05/06, rjn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to thank everyone for their input. Although I won't buy one immediately, I'll probably get a T43 as they are still

Re: FYI, 1and1 hosting fun (ip subnet zero)

2006-05-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
I didn't know that Linux has such an ugly dmesgs. Please, resist from posting them on this list, they hurt my screen. :) On 11/05/06, Timo Schoeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thus Robert spake: Timo Schoeler wrote: thus Robert spake: Timo Schoeler wrote: thus Alexander Farber spake: Do you

Re: laptops needed

2006-05-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/05/06, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think drinking beer under a palm tree beats drinking beer at a keyboard any day. Why not drink a beer under a palm tree while at the keyboard? Living in South Florida I have had the good luck to have many an opportunity to do this... and I

Re: is openntpd 3.9 real?

2006-05-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/05/06, Matthew R. Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:44:41AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: * Matthew R. Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-13 03:00]: Will it include the leap second patch Thorsten Glaser posted earlier this week? no. Can I ask why his patch

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-05-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26/05/06, Christopher Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/11/06, Chris Cappuccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always run across cheap/free/lying around dell laptops that work great. The sound works, the wireless might work, and suspend usually works. Right now I have a dell latitude c400,

Re: Does Lenovo suck ?

2006-06-06 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 06/06/06, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 08:13, Ioan Nemes wrote: The above article is a PR exercise, just testing the waters! No, it's not just a PR exercise. The reason for the sudden retreat is that they still want to be able to sell to the Taiwanese

Re: b/g wifi card on wi list?

2006-06-09 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 08/06/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want 11g hostap on OpenBSD, currently you need a Ralink device. Afaik if you want a decent antenna, this means PCI/MiniPCI (or possibly some of the USB devices). Based on some pictures, I think that Zonet ZEW2500P would be a good

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