Re: Rant: how stupid does java look

2005-05-06 Thread Joel Rees
IMHO, the open source community should avoid this Java fixation and switch to Mono. Mono is free sotware and a superior technology than Java, from what I've read. Sure, there's lots of investment already made in Java (Tomcat, etc). But for the BSDs, maybe Mono would be a fresh, unhindered start.

Re: beginner, intermediate, and advanced scripting

2005-05-15 Thread Joel Rees
I'm quite sure Paul Graham would very happily tell you all the logical reasons why the end result would eventually be a dialect of LISP. ;-) And perl is a dialect of LISP, isn't it? :-/ -- Joel Rees (A FORTH dreamer, imprisoned in a Java world)

Re: beginner, intermediate, and advanced scripting

2005-05-15 Thread Joel Rees
in that,. too. But if you learn perl strictly from things you see on the web, you get stuck thinking it does things only the wrong way. For further discussion, perlmonks and perl.org. I'm out of this one. -- Joel Rees Getting involved in the neighbor's family squabbles is dangerous

Re: ssh

2005-05-18 Thread Joel Rees
This whole thread has me wondering if I haven't been kidnapped by aliens.

Re: bridge segment LAN/DMZ

2005-05-20 Thread Joel Rees
What do you mean by separate? If you're using a bridge, that suggests you're *bridging* them together. Routing denotes some level os separation. The purpose of a DMZ is to isolate hostile traffic. If you're going to bridge this traffic with your LAN, you don't really have a DMZ. Allright,

Re: ssh

2005-05-21 Thread Joel Rees
On 2005.5.19, at 01:11 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2005 00:12:29 +0900, Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This whole thread has me wondering if I haven't been kidnapped by aliens. No, not recently. Since the accident where you toasted the neural interface on the Enterprise

shell not reading login script

2008-08-20 Thread Joel Rees
, whether I simply start a new xterm, or go to the trouble of logging out and back in. Anyone willing to tell me what's wrong with my thinking here? Joel Rees (waiting for a 3+GHz ARM processor to come out, to test Steve's willingness to switch again.)

I'm embarassed. (Re: shell not reading login script)

2008-08-20 Thread Joel Rees
export PROFMARKER=.profile setenv CSHMARKER .cshrc setenv LOGINMARKER .login (hangs head in shame.) Except, csh picks up one marker, sh and ksh pick up none. So I'm still puzzled On 平成 20/08/21, at 10:30, Joel Rees wrote: Not sure whether this is better asked on misc or ppc, but it seems

no ssh fingerprints showing for some anoncvs mirrors

2008-08-20 Thread Joel Rees
for the src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz, xorg.tar.gz, and ports.tar.gz tarballs? Joel Rees (waiting for a 3+GHz ARM processor to come out, to test Steve's willingness to switch again.)

Re: I'm embarassed. (Re: shell not reading login script)

2008-08-21 Thread Joel Rees
On 平成 20/08/21, at 12:12, Philip Guenther wrote: 2008/8/20 Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]: export PROFMARKER=.profile would you believe I put that in .profile, like the marker said? setenv CSHMARKER .cshrc would you believe I put that in .cshrc? setenv LOGINMARKER .login would you

Re: I'm embarassed. (Re: shell not reading login script)

2008-08-23 Thread Joel Rees
On 平成 20/08/22, at 19:21, Philip Guenther wrote: 2008/8/21 Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 平成 20/08/21, at 12:12, Philip Guenther wrote: 2008/8/20 Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]: export PROFMARKER=.profile would you believe I put that in .profile, like the marker said? ...etc Now

Re: The firmware matter

2008-10-12 Thread Joel Rees
to copy the blobs legally could be a step in the right direction. If the blobs are stable and the devices have published APIs, using them may be better than attempting to shut down the entire industry until manufacturers come to their senses. Maybe. Joel Rees (venting a spleen or two today)

huge first daily insecurities

2010-12-27 Thread Joel Rees
be more useful to send in the dmesg before or after I get /etc cleaned up. Or maybe you have enough iBook G4 12 inch dmesg-es for 4.8? Nothing special, really. -- Joel Rees joel_r...@sannet.ne.jp

Re: huge first daily insecurities

2010-12-28 Thread Joel Rees
.) And get the dmesg shipped out, too, but I'm going to get some sleep first. much grass, Joel Rees On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:48:57 +0100 Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote: Hi Joel, Joel Rees wrote on Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 01:51:19PM +0900: So the first daily insecurities is over a megabyte

reasoning behind default primary group being user

2010-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
. So, can someone point me to the reasoning behind that, so I can figure out whether I want to change that to have the default group=uid that I'm used to? -- Joel Rees joel_r...@sannet.ne.jp

Re: reasoning behind default primary group being user

2010-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:59:14 +0200 Gregory Edigarov g...@bestnet.kharkov.ua wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:50:26 +0200 Gregory Edigarov g...@bestnet.kharkov.ua wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:19:36 +0900 Joel Rees joel_r...@sannet.ne.jp wrote: [questions about setting up the default

Re: reasoning behind default primary group being user

2010-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
Hmm. (cross-posting to ppc@) Something's odd, here. On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:54:16 -0500 Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Joel Rees joel_r...@sannet.ne.jp wrote: I noticed when the installer created my first non-root (erg, first administration) user

Re: reasoning behind default primary group being user

2010-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:59:48 -0800 patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Joel Rees joel_r...@sannet.ne.jp wrote: Hmm. (cross-posting to ppc@) [...] But, I thought I'd check the source to see which was being invoked in the install script (neither

a half-baked analysis of the verification chicken-and-egg problem, and request

2014-08-12 Thread Joel Rees
the magazines and bloggers to echo the checksums with the announcements.) -- Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com

SSH Fingerprint for anoncvs.jp.openbsd.org?

2014-08-14 Thread Joel Rees
Is there a reason that the fingerprint for anon...@anoncvs.jp.openbsd.org is missing from http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

Re: DVD how to overcome mkisofs

2014-08-14 Thread Joel Rees
-rom-filesystem-images.html Or is it information you already have? genisoimage make smaller image than mkisofs. so it is useful to burn DVD. --- tuyosi -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

minimums for /usr/ports, /usr/xenocara, and /usr/src

2014-08-14 Thread Joel Rees
partition that would be freed, give it 300,000 inodes, and use it for /usr/xenocara. Can anyone tell me if that will be enough? Or maybe I should just do it the other way, from the patch sets, I think it was. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

Re: rc.local mystery executables

2014-08-16 Thread Joel Rees
to learn to weed through them. (I'm still not very used to it.) Speaking of which, is tripwire still considered useful, if set up right? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

Re: rc.local mystery executables

2014-08-16 Thread Joel Rees
getting through the router/firewall, if you set it up right, that the exploit would not succeed in dropping actual rootkit. Not to say you don't need something to watch for rootkits, as well, but combining functions makes for a weaker system. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look

Re: PDF FAQ [Was: Donations to OpenBSD]

2014-08-17 Thread Joel Rees
of the job. (I speak as a lurker who has seen something like this before.) Also, if you are considering donating the necessary work yourself, you might want to talk with Michael Lucas. I think he might be able to help you avoid some of the dead-end paths in the solution tree. Joel Rees Computer

Re: minimums for /usr/ports, /usr/xenocara, and /usr/src

2014-08-18 Thread Joel Rees
Rees On 08/15/14 05:09, Joel Rees wrote: I'm trying re-learn how to bring a new install up to -stable, and I've been following the instructions on http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html and http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld and not doing a very good job of it. The recommended partition

Re: minimums for /usr/ports, /usr/xenocara, and /usr/src

2014-08-18 Thread Joel Rees
(stalls for more than fifteen minutes while the disks are very busy doing something on the laptop. ps wwaux doesn't show anything that catches my eye, just the normal stuff, with the cvs command and the ssh session associated with it.)On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com

Re: minimums for /usr/ports, /usr/xenocara, and /usr/src

2014-08-28 Thread Joel Rees
, paranoid sure? (Noting that xmris now seems to be gone). Oh, BTW, the output of the command Ingo suggested, find /usr/ports -name pobj -prune -o -type d -empty -print is empty. (Thanks, Ingo, now I need to dig around and see if I can find where I read about files named pobj again.) -- Joel Rees

Re: rc.local mystery executables

2014-08-30 Thread Joel Rees
2014/08/30 12:20 Eric Furman ericfur...@fastmail.net: grc.*** (because I don't want any more googgle weight given to this website) and the person who runs it, whose name shall not be mentioned other than his initials are SG, is a complete fraud. The first two paragraphs didn't seem too bad.

errors trying to build userland from source

2014-09-07 Thread Joel Rees
of the specification *** Error 1 in /usr/src/etc (Makefile:241 'distrib-dirs') (I think I hand-copied everything correctly.) I''m thinking maybe the jump from 5.5 to CURRENT was too much? Or should I be looking at something else? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart

Re: errors trying to build userland from source

2014-09-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Daniel Jakots vigdis+o...@chown.me wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 19:56:19 +0900, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: and I get the following output: if [ ! -d //. ]; then install -d -o root -g wheel -m 755 /; fi mtree -qdef mtree/4.4BSD.dist -p // -U

Re: provide public gpg key(s) by the install-isos

2014-09-08 Thread Joel Rees
machines, on different networks. How far you need to go, and how you devise your out-of-band checks is something you have to figure out. And do get the CDs. If they are intercepted and you check the checksums like you should, you have a good chance of finding out that you are targeted. -- Joel Rees

How does pkg_add know I'm tracking -stable?

2014-09-23 Thread Joel Rees
pkg_add references and uses the ports directory, in which case it should know to get the -stable packages. Am I understanding things correctly? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy.

Re: How does pkg_add know I'm tracking -stable?

2014-09-23 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Henning Brauer hb-open...@ml.bsws.de wrote: * Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com [2014-09-23 10:12]: [...] and I think it at indicates not to mix -stable and -release . incorrect. -stbale is -release + fixes, the entire point of -stable is that it is 100

recommended input methods?

2014-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
What're the recommended input methods for Japanese and Spanish? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself.

Re: recommended input methods?

2014-10-18 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Bryan Linton b...@shoshoni.info wrote: On 2014-10-14 14:02:52, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: What're the recommended input methods for Japanese and Spanish? [...] The only complaint I have is that for some applications, namely xombrero and xfe

Re: ffs and utf8

2014-11-29 Thread Joel Rees
encoding that uses a restricted subset of actual characters in use, and a structure that allows for a simpler parsing of the international encoding part. (And from here my thoughts get even less coherent. Sorry for the interruption.) -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first

Re: ffs and utf8

2014-11-30 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com wrote: Joel Rees said: That said, the standard provides just enough facilities to make filesystem-related aspects of Unicode work nicely, particularily in case of utf-8. Eg. ability to enforce NFD for all operations

Re: ffs and utf8

2014-12-01 Thread Joel Rees
, will the boss be okay with that? Maybe your company has a set of normalization rules that works okay for your company. Maybe my company doesn't work well with those rules. That's the problem. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you

Re: ffs and utf8

2014-12-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com wrote: Joel Rees said: Hmm. What would you suggest doing with the following file name? /etc (You may need a Japanese font to display it.) If you try to normalize it on a *nix box, it will hopefully conflict with your

Re: ffs and utf8

2014-12-02 Thread Joel Rees
(apologies for the html.) 2014/12/02 9:52 Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com: Joel Rees said: Now, what would you do with this? ジョエル Why not decompose it to the following? ジョエル Because it is not what Unicode normalization is. Well, it definitely isn't

Re: ffs and utf8

2014-12-03 Thread Joel Rees
Dmitrij had some questions about my intent, I'll try to clarify. 2014/12/02 18:57 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com: (apologies for the html.) 2014/12/02 9:52 Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com: [ ... and others Snipped context: There was some discussion of what kind of file names should

Re: ffs and utf8

2014-12-03 Thread Joel Rees
in once to do that, however. Maybe it would be better just to not make those directories until they are needed by an application, and then ask the user to name them instead of providing standard names. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask

Re: ffs and utf8

2014-12-03 Thread Joel Rees
character-like objects that need a code point in a modern information encoding scheme. UTF-8 and Unicode are not equivalent. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: OpenBSD Trademark Policy

2014-12-07 Thread Joel Rees
. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well.

Re: OpenBSD Trademark Policy

2014-12-07 Thread Joel Rees
of diplomacy. -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well.

Re: OpenBSD Trademark Policy

2014-12-07 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Riley Baird bm-2cvqnduybau5do2dfjtrn7zbaj246s4...@bitmessage.ch wrote: On 07/12/14 21:51, Joel Rees wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Riley Baird [...] I see your point, but I'm just wondering - if you are recommending that I get a lawyer, is that because

wacom tablets

2014-12-10 Thread Joel Rees
mouse Option Protocol wsmouse Option Device /dev/wsmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection -- - Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future. dmesg

Re: wacom tablets

2014-12-10 Thread Joel Rees
Followup: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Found an old post indicating that wacom tablets are functional: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=130458853424142w=2 Wondering if they (still?) require configuration sections in xorg.conf , and, if so, where

Re: recommended input methods?

2014-12-11 Thread Joel Rees
Followup: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: What're the recommended input methods for Japanese and Spanish? I have got Japanese input running and useable, by installing the packages ja-fonts-gnu ja-sazanami-ttf ja-mplus-ttf ibus-anthy with pkg_add . I'm

Re: recommended input methods?

2014-12-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Followup: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: What're the recommended input methods for Japanese and Spanish? I have got Japanese input running and useable, by installing the packages

poor-man's sandbox (for web browser security, etc.)

2014-12-13 Thread Joel Rees
to hexed-me's home directory run the same way. I would appreciate any critiques or out-right criticisms of this. Is it worth the trouble? Does it perhaps open up new vulnerabilities instead? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you

Re: recommended input methods?

2014-12-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Bryan Linton b...@shoshoni.info wrote: On 2014-12-11 22:46:48, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Followup: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2014-12-22 Thread Joel Rees
have? Are you trying to multiboot with a Linux OS or MSWindows? What kind of motherboard is it? Is the CPU 32 bit or 64 bit? send me a reply, I'm really in need of help :-/ -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2014-12-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Henrique Lengler henriquel...@openmailbox.org wrote: On 2014-12-23 03:01, Joel Rees wrote: By the way, how are you accessing the internet now? My mother's notebook via wireless connection. Would she mind too much if you took the time to read through the FAQs

Re: Adding encryption support to vi(1)

2014-12-26 Thread Joel Rees
typefaces and such. I'd whip one up for you, but right now I'd probably be writing it in forth. 8-* Of course, gpg reads from standard input, so ... -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm

Re: Discovering the keycode of key.

2014-12-26 Thread Joel Rees
of the standard X11 install? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well.

Re: Discovering the keycode of key.

2014-12-27 Thread Joel Rees
2014/12/27 13:33 Eduardo Lopes dud...@gmail.com: Joel Rees joel.rees at gmail.com writes: showkey doesn't seem to be on my machine, but xev is. Is xev part of the standard X11 install? Yes, xev is part of Xenocara, but I don´t think the keycodes on X correlates

hp pavilion hpps5521 ?

2014-12-30 Thread Joel Rees
Needing a new laptop, and this is one of the machines I've been looking at. Is it going to be one of those whose graphics acceleration is too new-fangled, etc.? -- Joel Rees

Re: recommended input methods?

2014-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
I've posted on getting anthy going in XFCE4 on my general blog: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2014/12/typing-in-japanese-in-openbsd.html I'll try to trim that up a bit for a FAQ entry in a few days, if it looks appropriate.

Re: hp pavilion G0A16PA-AAAA or G0A17PA-AAAA (was not the hpps5521 printer)?

2014-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
...@bsdly.net wrote: Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: Needing a new laptop, and this is one of the machines I've been looking at. Is it going to be one of those whose graphics acceleration is too new-fangled, etc.? Are you sure that's the correct model designation for a laptop? A web search

Re: hp pavilion G0A16PA-AAAA or G0A17PA-AAAA (was not the hpps5521 printer)?

2014-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Erk. Looks like I can't tell a printer from a netbook. 8-/ Touchsmart 10 or 10-e021AU. But these models may be specific to the Japanese market. :-( AMD A4-1200 APU, 1 GHz, with 2G RAM, 500G HD, AMD Radeon HD 8180

Re: AMD64 packages - Reflecting dynamic linking

2015-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
/dynamic-linking/versioned-symbols -- FRIGN d...@frign.de -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well.

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-22 Thread Joel Rees
close to time for spring cleaning with the vacuum cleaner. Dust is definitely a possibility. On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking under /var/log, but not seeing any logfiles to give me any clues. What information should I post? I have /var/log/messages

cvs server: use `cvs add' to create an entry for gnu/usr/bin/gcc/INSTALL

2015-01-18 Thread Joel Rees
tree and restart it from the tarballs? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well.

Re: integrity of commercial CD set

2015-01-16 Thread Joel Rees
the base system installed, signify checks things for you. (Under the control of various scripts.) /off-topic Many thanks to Theo and the others for your advice and opinions. Regards -- Enos D'Andrea -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask

My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-21 Thread Joel Rees
at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on wd2a (85f3c23fe413c2b0.a) swap on wd2b dump on wd2b WARNING: / was not properly unmounted --- -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart

Re: The CDs have signatures, too

2015-02-18 Thread Joel Rees
up on a CD by | accident. | | Another example is a Trojanized Oracle installation CD that contains | an EQUATIONLASER Trojan dropper alongside the Oracle installer. (Page 15.) -- Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de -- Joel Rees Be careful when you

Re: Wouldn't `daemon_enable=YES` make more sense than `daemon_flags=` in rc.conf.local?

2015-01-30 Thread Joel Rees
the bundle of patch cables all connected and ready, and one switch separate from the patch cable bundle to actually turn the box on and patch it in. Seems being the operational word, and the issue of where one is looking for the switch being, perhaps, the missed point? -- Joel Rees

Is there a daemon rollcall tool?

2015-01-30 Thread Joel Rees
.) -- Joel Rees

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
power source or possibly a failing power supply in the machine. If it won't power back on right away, or won't stay on till it sits for a while, try cleaning the cpu fan - they collect a lot of dust. On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking under /var

Re: My computer suddenly turned itself off.

2015-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Erk. Firefox is sure slow. And gmail on FF is a habit I need to give up. Or get a more recent machine. On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Matt M cmorrow...@gmail.com wrote: Sudden power offs are often indicative of heat

Re: recommended input methods?

2015-01-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: I've posted on getting anthy going in XFCE4 on my general blog: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2014/12/typing-in-japanese-in-openbsd.html I'll try to trim that up a bit for a FAQ entry in a few days, if it looks appropriate

lego ev3 or nxt software?

2015-01-08 Thread Joel Rees
? -- Joel Rees

reason for having return addresses in parameter stack?

2015-03-28 Thread Joel Rees
it be to change the function call protocol to push the program counter to a separate stack from the parameters and locals? Or am I speculating about a different world, still? Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: reason for having return addresses in parameter stack?

2015-03-29 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, Joel Rees wrote: Is there any good reason for interleaving the return addresses with data on the data/parameter stack in C? I know it's the tradition, from back when it was all we could hope

how much disk space does it take to build gcc 4.8?

2015-03-23 Thread Joel Rees
there, but du seems to say the ballooned file is elsewhere.) I have another 5.6 box that is currently building the userland, for reference, but while I'm waiting, I thought I'd ask about the ballooning build. And if anyone cares to help me untangle my thinking, ... Joel Rees Computer memory is just

pkg_add vs. cvs -up, and pkg_check telling me about unknown files directories

2015-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
is supposed to mean? (I'm thinking it may have something to do with mtree, but I'm not remembering what to look at for that.) Joel Rees

Re: pkg_add vs. cvs -up, and pkg_check telling me about unknown files directories

2015-02-25 Thread Joel Rees
ports partition and re-populate it from scratch. Still not sure why pkg_info and pkg_add were geting stuck until I used pkg_check. Thanks, Joel Rees

Re: reason for having return addresses in parameter stack?

2015-04-02 Thread Joel Rees
/splitting-return-addresses-out-of.html -- Joel Rees On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, Joel Rees wrote: Is there any good reason for interleaving the return addresses

Re: differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-02 Thread Joel Rees
to suspend the build process every five minutes or so and let things cool down. (Since I can't afford a new motherboard right now.) Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Apr 3, 2015 6:35 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Probably should grab something to monitor the temperatures, etc., while I try building the compiler again. Maybe use job control to suspend the build process every five minutes or so and let things cool down. (Since I can't

Re: my experience with openbsdstore.com

2015-04-13 Thread Joel Rees
erk. I should keep my hands away from the keyboard when I have a head cold. On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, [...] in Japan and (IIRC) the US, there is wire transfer, which is more or less as Jason describes, and electronic transfer, which is much

Re: my experience with openbsdstore.com

2015-04-13 Thread Joel Rees
or so) in the bank. -- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. (One of these days, I want to be so condemned, as long as someone is paying me to do it. ;-) -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself

Re: jwm ; speedy window manager

2015-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
, I was confused until yesterday, too.) Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: jwm ; speedy window manager

2015-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
of responses. I can't recommend any yet for Japanese. I need to try some of them first. :-) (/usr/local/bin/ibus-setup doesn't seem to have a nearby cursor option, but I have seen the effect in XFCE sometimes.) -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart

Re: jwm ; speedy window manager

2015-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Kevin Chadwick m8il1i...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 15:19:57 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: I'm using XFCE4 okay. It's a bit heavy, but I can use it, with patience. (I need to check my X11 configuration.) But fvwm, the default window manager, is no lighter

Re: SSL_ENABLE_FALLBACK_SCSV not defined error building firefox-esr-31.5.3 Re: differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
who know what they're doing, and just use the stable packages from mtier (which, of course, managed to build that firefox esr version afaict) Landry On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 4, 2015 7:26 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: After

Re: SSL_ENABLE_FALLBACK_SCSV not defined error building firefox-esr-31.5.3 Re: differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Apr 4, 2015 7:26 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: After about six hours More like eight hours. Just finished a re-compile without the room fan and got to the same error. (No overheating, either, with one less drive.) with a room fan aimed at the computer to keep it from

Re: Can't install latest snapshot over http

2015-04-03 Thread Joel Rees
hardware issues? I'm losing the device entries for my disk drives on the expansion disk controller in mid-build, and it seems heat related. (Not 100% positive, though.) Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

SSL_ENABLE_FALLBACK_SCSV not defined error building firefox-esr-31.5.3 Re: differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-04 Thread Joel Rees
. 31.5.3.) On Apr 3, 2015 4:22 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 3, 2015 6:35 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Probably should grab something to monitor the temperatures, etc., while I try building the compiler again. Maybe use job control to suspend the build

Re: Can't install latest snapshot over http

2015-04-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 12:54 PM, dan mclaughlin thev...@openmailbox.org wrote: On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:08:35 +0900 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 4, 2015 8:33 AM, Oriol Demaria sysad...@the-grid.xyz wrote: My problem got worse. So I tried finally to install the 2nd of April

Re: SSL_ENABLE_FALLBACK_SCSV not defined error building firefox-esr-31.5.3 Re: differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-05 Thread Joel Rees
on the ITExpress on a single channel, master/slave. I've unplugged the western digital drive, and the system is much more stable. I haven't tried starting a new build of firefox that way yet. Should I post a dmesg without the WDC drive? On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Exploiting PCI-based DMA in OpenBSD

2015-04-04 Thread Joel Rees
to this attack? I mean not tool themself, I mean vector of attack. Are you talking about the physical possession vector or the software attack surface made obvious by certain virtualization/emulation projects? Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text

Re: Exploiting PCI-based DMA in OpenBSD

2015-04-04 Thread Joel Rees
this kind of thing as a weak point to attack. And destroy. Yeah, it's sort of inconvenient that openbsd doesn't support firewire. Sort of, but, ... . Anybody interested in a project to start re-flashing BIOSses with openbsd? :-/ Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy

differences between pk_add -u and building from source at stable

2015-04-01 Thread Joel Rees
before building firefox from source again. Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

what to do with a uefi hp pavillion 10-f014au?

2015-05-20 Thread Joel Rees
a disklabel by hand and copying the file system over by hand? (I have opened up an empty simple partition on the disk already.) Joel Rees Computer memory is just fancy paper, CPUs just fancy pens. All is a stream of text flowing from the past into the future.

Re: what to do with a uefi hp pavillion 10-f014au?

2015-05-20 Thread Joel Rees
video0 at uvideo0 vscsi0 at root scsibus4 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus5 at softraid0: 256 targets root on sd1a (0a134a3dfe74fb02.a) swap on sd1b dump on sd1b cd0 detached scsibus3 detached umass1 detached Joel Rees 2015/05/20 16:00 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com: besides take

Re: Have sudo and login changed between 5.6 and 5.7?

2015-06-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Checked in openbsd 5.6. 2015/05/31 23:38 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com: I have a home directory buried one deep in a directory owned by a non-login user: /home /home/bubble /home/bubble/userA where /home/bubble

Re: sudoers documentation bug?

2015-06-06 Thread Joel Rees
line? -- Joel Rees Be careful when you look at conspiracy. Look first in your own heart, and ask yourself if you are not your own worst enemy. Arm yourself with knowledge of yourself, as well.

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