dmesg/bios question

2005-08-10 Thread Dave Feustel
have any old copies of dmesg to compare. I'm running on a Dell 4100. Does the bios id seem correct? Thanks, Dave Feustel OpenBSD 3.6 (GENERIC) #59: Fri Sep 17 12:32:57 MDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium III (GenuineIntel 686-class) 797 MHz cpu0

Re: dmesg/bios question

2005-08-10 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 05:22 am, Martin Reindl wrote: Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer just locked up and I rebooted. When I did so the reboot hung right after the line below starting with bios0. I powered down, then up, then booted again, this time successfully

3.7 problem: replacing xdm with kdm

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
'.) Are there additional changes that I need to make to use kdm instead of xdm? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: 3.7 problem: replacing xdm with kdm

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 08:42, J. Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:34:54 -0500 Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am now running 3.7. I got graphical logins via xdm working and decided to replace xdm with kdm. I changed the call of xdm in rc to a call to kdm

Little 3.7 Problems

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
I am now running 3.7 with KDE 3.3.2. All my apps seem to be running, usually even better than in 3.6 :-). I *have* run into a few places where 3.7 apps do not work quite like the 3.6 apps. These are more likely KDE problems than OpenBSD problems, but maybe someone will know how to fix them.

Re: 3.7 problem: replacing xdm with kdm

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 10:37, Bernd Schoeller wrote: You might want to check out http://www.openbsdsupport.org/KDM.html Thanks for the pointer. I remember reading it a while ago, but I had forgotten about it since then. I found that point 6 in that writeup doesn't work for me, possibly

Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
server is already running. How do I get xdm to handle all console logins? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:59, Henning Brauer wrote: * Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-11 18:57]: I just discovered that even though xdm is running, terminals C[0-3] are running in character mode ie. if, while logged in via xdm, I enter ctl-alt-F[0-3], I get a tty login!!! eh

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:13, Paul de Weerd wrote: xdm is for graphical logins. text-mode console logins are handled by getty(8). You can not make xdm handle text-mode logins, that's not what it's designed to do. I understand that. It is beginning to look like I have had for at least 2

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:41, Paul de Weerd wrote: The fact that you can not run multiple X servers on one videocard, as it currently stands. I did not think a separate server was required for each terminal window. That may be one of my conceptual problems about how X Windows works. You

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
Thanks for the advice, Paul. I'll try to follow it. On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:04, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:49:13PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: | On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:13, Paul de Weerd wrote: | xdm is for graphical logins. text-mode console logins are handled

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:54, Mats O Jansson wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: What I dn't yet quite grasp is why there cannot be multiple independent instances of kde running, each one attached to a different virtual terminal (C0-C3) on the same computer. Then I

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 15:23, Darrin Chandler wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: Keep in mind that xdm does not at all do what I thought it did. If using xdm does not permit simultaeneous multiple instances of KDE on my computer, then I see no advantage to using xdm. From a message

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 15:42, Joseph C. Bender wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: Keep in mind that xdm does not at all do what I thought it did. If using xdm does not permit simultaeneous multiple instances of KDE on my computer, then I see no advantage to using xdm. I

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-11 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 11 August 2005 16:16, Bryan Irvine wrote: What I want to do is make it possible for multiple users simultaneously to login and run kde on C0-C3. Is that possible? I think you might want to take a look at Xnest. While it won't allow you to to switch with function keys, it would

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-12 Thread Dave Feustel
for the feedback, Dave Feustel

Ports Question

2005-08-14 Thread Dave Feustel
} I don't understand why I would need to remove xmms, kdeaddons, and kdenetwork in order to remove unzip. Enlightenment will be appreciated. Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: newsticker - console based ?

2005-08-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 14 August 2005 21:47, Uwe Dippel wrote: Tried my best in /usr/ports, but couldn't find any console-based newsticker. Or so. snownews is great, but needs user intervention. This is what I intend to do: I am running a firewall behind closed doors but with a nice big window. Sure I

Re: newsticker - console based ?

2005-08-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 14 August 2005 22:09, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:02:45 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: I discovered that the 3.7 konqueror correctly displays marqee.../marqee as moving text. You can see this work at cloakanddagger.de. Just run Konqueror and periodically update

kword crashes instantly when print or print preview selected

2005-08-15 Thread Dave Feustel
I'm running 3.7 release with the koffice package installed. This is 100% repeatable. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Ports Question - Update

2005-08-15 Thread Dave Feustel
I'm running release 3.7 and I've put the release src and ports trees in /usr. I've updated both trees using cvs. I remade unzip as per the instructions in ports.html. When I attempted to make install, I got an error message saying that unzip was already present (which it was). So I attempted to

Re: Ports Question - Update

2005-08-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 03:41, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:22:15 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: So I attempted to pkg_delete unzip and then got the following: === /usr/ports}cd archivers/unzip /usr/ports/archivers/unzip}sudo pkg_delete unzip Password: Can't

Re: kword crashes instantly when print or print preview selected

2005-08-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:08, Daniel Martini wrote: Hi Dave, On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:57:27PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: I'm running 3.7 release with the koffice package installed. This is 100% repeatable. Has anyone else seen this? Yes. It's probably related to cups. Provided you

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 15:48, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:26:38PM +, Baldur Sigurpsson wrote: [...] Clever. A password-protected power switch... Actually, I have configured the bios on my laptop to ask for a password before even loading any kernel or

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 16:15, Baldur Sigurpsson wrote: Indeed, very secure. If I've physical access to your laptop, all I need is a screwdriver to open it, pull out the disk and connect it to another machine. The disk password is part of the ATA interface spec. I would like you to

Hard Disk Password Security Info

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Feustel
c't 8/2005, S. 172: Hard Disk Security At Your Disservice How ATA security functions jeopardize your data With most notebooks it is possible to secure the hard disk against unauthorized access with the aid of a password. Without the latter the disk, even when inserted into another computer,

Re: Major Surprise with xdm on 3.7

2005-08-17 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 16:15, Baldur Sigurpsson wrote: Indeed, very secure. If I've physical access to your laptop, all I need is a screwdriver to open it, pull out the disk and connect it to another machine. excerpted from http://www.rockbox.org/lock.html === Still

Re: Hard Disk Password Security Info

2005-08-18 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:38, Dimitry Andric wrote: See the atactl(8) manpage, in particular the sec* commands. I was looking that that manpage yesterday. It confirms that it is possible to make the disk data inaccessible to anyone without the user password. However, I don't believe these

Re: Hard Disk Password Security Info

2005-08-18 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:16, Timothy Donahue wrote: The only way to recover information off of a disk that has the ata security password protection implemented correctly is to transplant the platters into another disk (of the same type). The c't article, the link to which I posted to

Re: Hard Disk Password Security Info

2005-08-18 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:19, Andrew Dalgleish wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:28:45AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: The c't article, the link to which I posted to misc@ yesterday, stated that a data recovery company was able to retrieve the user disk password (set by the authors

Re: Boot hanging following power out - it's worse

2005-08-20 Thread Dave Feustel
rebooted, /bsd booted normally. I figure that something on the boot disk was left in a bad state by the power failure and running /bsd.mp fixed it. This was the only time in 3 years that /bsd failed to boot for me, all other power failures included. Dave Feustel On Saturday 20 August 2005 14:13

Qt 4.0.1 Runs on 3.7

2005-08-21 Thread Dave Feustel
with QPainter, but otherwise it seems to run ok. Qt 4.0.1 coexists with Qt 3.x except for qmake, which is version-specific. Trolltech - Open Source Downloads http://www.trolltech.com/download/opensource.html Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses

Re: sh problem or configure script problem?

2005-08-22 Thread Dave Feustel
test, get the source for korn shell from korn.com, build it and then compare its scripted behavior against that of pdksh. Of course, if korn shell's behaviour doesn't conform to Posix, *then* what do you do. (I personally take Korn shell as THE standard regardless of what Posix says.) Dave

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-22 Thread Dave Feustel
is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of OpenBSD security is no virtue! with a nod to the late Senator Barry Goldwater. Do It! Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, worms and popups) Then Switch to OpenBSD

startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
When I start kde via startkde after login, an instance of xconsole isalso started. This instance doesn't seem to be started in kdeinit. Where is it started from? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:12, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: When I start kde via startkde after login, an instance of xconsole isalso started. This instance doesn't seem to be started in kdeinit. Where is it started from? Well, if you use an graphical login manager, I

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:50, Stephan Tesch wrote: Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 15:48 schrieb Dave Feustel: When I start kde via startkde after login, an instance of xconsole isalso started. This instance doesn't seem to be started in kdeinit. Where is it started from? Is is mentioned

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 11:43, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: I don't have an .xinitrc. I run startkde from the command line after login. Then add a .xinitrc in your homedir with the following line : exec startkde ... then launch startx. I forget. What

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 14:58, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Selon Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My problem is that xconsole starts running with kde and I cannot figure out where from it is started. I've tried grepping for xconsole and get no hits in my home directory. Please try to read

Re: startkde question

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 14:31, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:52:40PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Because startkde is a script that will invoke startx which will by default (meaning if you don't have a .xinitrc in your homedir) use /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc where

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 07:04, Hannah Schroeter wrote: A few things that get bitten are some packages doing their own and very different memory management, but can't avoid malloc altogether. That is ports/lang/clisp, that seems to be also gprolog Can you describe how these programs manage

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 08:04, Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:02:54AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 07:04, Hannah Schroeter wrote: I *am* a bit sad about the fact that there're no running Lisp implementations for OpenBSD Does (X

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 10:56, Marc Espie wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:09:36AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 07:04, Hannah Schroeter wrote: A few things that get bitten are some packages doing their own and very different memory management, but can't

Re: 3.8 snapshot laptop sleep issues

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 12:31, Will H. Backman wrote: Running today's snapshot on an old laptop (Dell Latitude PPL), and I put the cover down to see if it would go to sleep and wake up properly. After it went to sleep, I opened the laptop back up, and it started to come back alive, but the

Is the patch for this exploit in Openbsd 3.7 KDE package?

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Feustel
How can I tell in general whether a specific patch for a specific exploit has been incorporated into the relevant openbsd package (kde in this case)? http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050101-1.txt Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
to disable booting from any device but the hard disk containing the operating system. Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootkits, worms and popups) Then Switch to OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!!

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 27 August 2005 07:27, Dave Feustel wrote: On Saturday 27 August 2005 06:07, JSD wrote: Hi folks, I have a big root access problem. If someone has physical access to my OpenBSD box, than he/she can swith into single user mode (-s) and can change the password of root

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
as reasonable advice you can get if you can't physically secure your box, and that's why you can't come up with anything better, smart ass. /kami Also, Kami is unfamiliar with the details of the disk password. man atactl /secsetpass Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 27 August 2005 11:14, kami petersen wrote: dave, what are you smoking? please carefully note how i edited out _your_ text so as to indicate _who_ i was addressing and whom i additionally consider being a smartass. let me rephrase: dear frank. your response is unneccesary and

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 27 August 2005 12:28, Tobias Weingartner wrote: You BIOS password would prevent the machine from booting automatically after power outtage for example... What! You're not running with backup power??? :-) -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses,

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 27 August 2005 17:50, Christian Jones wrote: On 8/27/05, black reaper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, a BIOS password can be easily removed if one has physical access to the box. The small CMOS battery can be popped out, and put back in (on the motherboard), erasing your

Boot-time Bios Mods - Still Possible?

2005-08-28 Thread Dave Feustel
A long time ago I added a little bios code to my pc by programming and installing an eprom on a post card. The code was executed at boot time before most of the bios code was executed. Is this still possible with current desktops? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against

Re: Boot-time Bios Mods - Still Possible?

2005-08-28 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 28 August 2005 10:53, Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 28 August 2005 10:22 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: A long time ago I added a little bios code to my pc by programming and installing an eprom on a post card. The code was executed at boot time before most of the bios code

Re: Hard Disk Password Security Info - Fujitsu-Siemens writeup

2005-08-30 Thread Dave Feustel
Fujitsu-Siemens writeup on disk password handling: http://vilpublic.fujitsu-siemens.com/vil/pc/vil/fast_facts/mainboards/pf_hddpassword_e.pdf

Re: OT: phone line 2 ethernet converters

2005-08-31 Thread Dave Feustel
with the requisite gain for the distance to be covered? Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootkits, worms and popups) Then Switch to OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!!

Re: complex.h under OpenBSD

2005-09-02 Thread Dave Feustel
On Friday 02 September 2005 13:32, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hello dear OpenBSD fans. I am trying to compile a C program (Numerical Electromagnetics Code, NEC, for antenna modelling) that needs complex numbers. I compiled it with gcc on Linux with

Re: X kills console.

2005-09-03 Thread Dave Feustel
On Saturday 03 September 2005 06:43, Jan Johansson wrote: Hello. Leaving the X virtual console the second time make the console die this happens both if I use Alt-Fn or exit X (both startx and xdm). Example: Log in as root on console. Type startx When X has loaded choose exit in the

massive kde error log after upgrade

2005-09-05 Thread Dave Feustel
= Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? (You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootkits, worms and popups) Then Switch to OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!!

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Feustel
I have not seen a sitemap for openbsd.org. Is there one? If not, how hard would it be to create one and add a link to the website for it? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Friday 09 September 2005 15:12, Alexander Hall wrote: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/ Hmm. Interesting. I'm not quite sure yet just what this is, but it looks useful and I'm putting the link in my OpenBSD link file and will spend some time examining it. Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-11 Thread Dave Feustel
greatest exports to the US are poverty and disease. Dave Feustel -- Tired of having to defend against Malware? You know: trojans, viruses, SPYWARE, ADWARE, KEYLOGGERS, rootkits, worms and popups. Then Switch to OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!!

Re: F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: Googkle

2005-05-08 Thread Dave Feustel
On Sunday 08 May 2005 10:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:00:07AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: For the OpenBSD experts on this list: Can the malware at Gookle.com described at the link crack OpenBSD and/or Konqueror? (I am far from an expert, so I practice

Re: F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: Googkle

2005-05-09 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 09 May 2005 09:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 8, 2005 11:00 am, Dave Feustel wrote: Can the malware at Gookle.com described at the link crack OpenBSD and/or Konqueror? (I am far from an expert, so I practice 'better safe than sorry' when I see f-secure's explicit

3.7 kde packages

2005-05-19 Thread Dave Feustel
It appears that 3.7 uses kde version 3.2.3. Were there problems upgrading to a newer version of kde? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: 3.7 kde packages

2005-05-19 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 19 May 2005 04:44 pm, Marc Espie wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: It appears that 3.7 uses kde version 3.2.3. Were there problems upgrading to a newer version of kde? First, you're dyslexic. It's 3.3.2. The PACKAGES file mentioned

AMD Releases Specifications of Virtualization Technology.

2005-05-25 Thread Dave Feustel
A link to a pdf file with complete Pacifica cpu virtualization details (except for what sockets are supported) is http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/33047.pdf Dave Feustel

AMD64x2 Motherboard Recommendations

2005-05-30 Thread Dave Feustel
I am getting ready to upgrade my computer system. What AMD64x2 motherboards do readers of this mailing list recommend for use with OpenBSD? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: AMD64x2 Motherboard Recommendations

2005-05-30 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 30 May 2005 11:13 am, you wrote: I am getting ready to upgrade my computer system. What AMD64x2 motherboards do readers of this mailing list recommend for use with OpenBSD? Thanks, Dave Feustel I bought an TYAN S2882. The support told me that they tested it with FreeBSD 5

Security WebCams

2005-06-03 Thread Dave Feustel
I have an immediate need for detection of physical intrusion. I would like to have a webcam take and save pictures to disk when there is motion detected in the camera's field of view. Is this doable right now with OpenBSD? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Who sells Zaurus in the US?

2005-06-04 Thread Dave Feustel
Are there any USA dealers recommended? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Problems with Gnumeric

2005-06-06 Thread Dave Feustel
I am having a LOT of problems with formatting/previewing/printing in GnuMeric on 3.6. Clicking on the gnumeric home page button produces an error. Where do I report bugs? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Re: Problems with Gnumeric

2005-06-06 Thread Dave Feustel
Never Mind. Sorry for the dumb question. On Monday 06 June 2005 03:08 pm, Dave Feustel wrote: I am having a LOT of problems with formatting/previewing/printing in GnuMeric on 3.6. Clicking on the gnumeric home page button produces an error. Where do I report bugs? Thanks, Dave Feustel

pkg-config question

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Feustel
I want to build a new version of gnumeric to run on 3.6. The config program says pkg-config (0.3.0) is too old and that it should be at least 0.9.0. Man pkg-config and apropos pkg-config return nothing. Can I upgrade pkg-config from package pkgconfig-0.15.0.tgz? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Gnumeric on 3.6

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Feustel
running on 3.7 significantly better (ie crashes less during pdf file creation) than the gnumeric version running on 3.6? Thanks, Dave Feustel

Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Feustel
business related computing/printing tasks may well have to be done on Windows. Dave Feustel

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 13 June 2005 05:02 pm, eric wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 16:49:14 -0500, Dave Feustel proclaimed... I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard copy I need. Neither

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-13 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 13 June 2005 05:38 pm, Gupni ^sr Bjvrgvinsson wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: I write this as a person very committed to OpenBSD as a secure desktop. I can say from experience that, running with KDE, neither Kspread nor Gnumeric on OpenBSD 3.6 are useable (by me, at least

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 04:47 am, Jon Drews wrote: On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Note that my problem is not printing pdf files, it is creating pdf files from within gnumeric. OK, these are the dependencies I have for Gnumerics printing: libgnomeprintui

Re: Gnumeric on 3.6

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 13 June 2005 06:10 pm, Jon Drews wrote: On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gnumeric developers assert that gnumeric is 'stable' ie rarely crashes. Yet my experience is that gnumeric crashes *frequently* while attempting to create pdf files. Does anyone else

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 13 June 2005 08:15 pm, Alec Berryman wrote: Dave Feustel on 2005-06-13 17:59:14 -0500: What about OpenOffice on OpenBSD? *ducks* It's too big for me to even try to port. I've never tried it under Linux emulation, but you might want to give that a go. In my experience

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 13 June 2005 06:55 pm, eric wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 00:58:10 +0200, Bram Van Dam proclaimed... Because that's not a spreadsheet? Your information is about as useless as his. Funny..lemme check here... From dict.org... spreadsheet n : a screen-oriented

Re: Does OpenBSD Have a Spreadsheet That Prints Properly?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 13 June 2005 05:58 pm, Jon Drews wrote: On 6/13/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can say from experience that, running with KDE, neither Kspread nor Gnumeric on OpenBSD 3.6 are useable (by me, at least) for hard copy of even simple spreadsheets. I am beginning

OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-19 Thread Dave Feustel
http://www.amecisco.com/faq_hardwarekeylogger.htm#Q1

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 20 June 2005 12:52 am, Brett Lymn wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:06:02AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: So far I see no defense against this spying technique of password capture. Regardless of whether they are built in or not - one possible way to get around keyloggers

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 20 June 2005 12:43 am, Chris Zakelj wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: The device is obviously not new. What *is* new is that it is being installed as oem equipment inside of keyboards for HP and Dell systems and also inside of 'used keyboards which can be unobtrusively switched

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 20 June 2005 12:23 am, Timothy A. Napthali wrote: I'm fairly sure this is a hoax. I have seen this referenced several times over the past few weeks and I have seen no evidence to indicate and truth to the matter. Here is a relevant link:

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 20 June 2005 01:32 am, Ben Hooper wrote: |I thought you had more insight. All of OpenBSD's security is |at risk with |this technology. | |The security features of an OS will not stop a physical attack, no |matter how well designed. This is no different than the admin leaving

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 20 June 2005 07:14 am, Chris Zakelj wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: If you read the FAQ carefully you would note that the keylogger chip is now being installed in oem equipment for the company marketing the keyboard. Buying a unit off the shelf does not guarantee

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 20 June 2005 08:14 am, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: One Time Passwords such as skey(1) are also good for insecure environments. Ben. I just read the man page for skey, but I still don't quite understand how it works. Would I use

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 20 June 2005 08:05 am, Alexander Bochmann wrote: ...on Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:24:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: Here is a relevant link: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=73190 That's just the same thing all over. We may get to find out - see

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 20 June 2005 10:43 am, Tobias Weingartner wrote: On Monday, June 20, Dave Feustel wrote: I just read the man page for skey, but I still don't quite understand how it works. Would I use a calculator to generate a response that I type in response to a challenge, or what

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Dave Feustel
On Monday 20 June 2005 07:29 am, Jeremy Bowen wrote: On Monday 20 June 2005 11:55 pm, Dave Feustel wrote: If you read the FAQ carefully you would note that the keylogger chip is now being installed in oem equipment for the company marketing the keyboard. Buying a unit off the shelf does

suggested /etc/skel/ modifications

2005-07-27 Thread Dave Feustel
1) add the line umask 077 to .profile 2)add the file .kshrc containing at least the line set -o vi Also modify adduser so that the home directory permissions of new users are set to drwx-- instead of drwxr-xr-x

Re: suggested /etc/skel/ modifications

2005-07-27 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 04:23 pm, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:13:01PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: | 1) add the line | umask 077 | to .profile This breaks certain ports (as I found out the hard way) I was wondering about that. Which ports broke? Thanks, Dave

Re: suggested /etc/skel/ modifications

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 28 July 2005 10:09 am, Moritz Grimm wrote: And there are also still numerous ways of breaking OpenBSD inspite of sane defaults and exploit mitigation techniques in place. Is there any way I can tell whether my system has been broken as you describe?

Re: suggested /etc/skel/ modifications

2005-07-28 Thread Dave Feustel
On Thursday 28 July 2005 11:24 am, Moritz Grimm wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: And there are also still numerous ways of breaking OpenBSD inspite of sane defaults and exploit mitigation techniques in place. Is there any way I can tell whether my system has been broken as you describe

Re: iwi(4), possible to use 802.1x authentication?

2005-07-29 Thread Dave Feustel
On Friday 29 July 2005 07:40 am, b h wrote: Hi, before I install openbsd on my laptop, I was curious if there is any method of getting wireless working with my companies infrastructure. I have the intel 2915a/b/g card, and only Cisco extensions and LEAP authentication is supported (ughh).

3.7 Cdroms Arrived with no Damage

2005-07-31 Thread Dave Feustel
to the cdrom case. That was a very pleasant surprise! Dave Feustel

Re: Ammunition needed to defend OpenBSD/pf

2005-08-03 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 01:15 pm, Jim O'Donald wrote: Using your example of a power supply lasting 10 years, that would translate to 2 failures in 10 years, not 1 failure in 5 years. And if the box is properly designed, it will continue running unless both power supplies fail simultaneously

Re: x86 rings?

2005-08-04 Thread Dave Feustel
it is probably of no interest to Openbsd developers. But it *will* make possible running a gaggle of copies of OpenBSD (eg OpenBSD 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8) simultaneously on a single computer. :-) Look for AMD chips implementing Pacifica sometime in 2006(Q1?). Dave Feustel

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