mirror site directory layout doesn't match OpenBSD web pages?

2005-09-11 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
such directory/symlink -- OpenBSD lives over in /unix/OpenBSD/ . Is this a bug in the web pages, a bug in the mirror setup, or a bug in my understanding? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, Old

Re: ThinkPad T41p suspend is fine from console, hangs from X

2007-07-09 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
/xorg.conf --- -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) and School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side

Re: Safe development

2005-05-20 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
OpenBSD is (IMHO) a trivial price. Of course, YMMV. Don't try this scheme unless you're reasonably familiar with the OpenBSD booting system, /etc/fstab, installboot, mount, and other such commands. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer

is 3.5 still supported?

2005-06-18 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
-stable branch came to an end with 3.6-release, and the 3.5-stable branch came to an end with 3.7-release -- old releases are typically supported up to two releases back. ] ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut

Re: 3.7-release: X.org dies with signal 11 on startup (3.5-stable XFree86 is fine on same hardware)

2005-06-27 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
supported). ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, Old Europe http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful

Re: memory allocation for large datasets

2005-07-30 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
really large data+bss+heap sizes. :( :( ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, Old Europe http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-22 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
quickly, since rebuilding from source is a bit slow (I typed 'make build' 2 days ago, and it's still running...). I like Nick Holland's suggestion http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=117453369215436w=1 of running -current, and may try it on my firewall. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove

ThinkPad T41p suspend is fine from console, hangs from X

2007-06-11 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
ttymask pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer

Re: ThinkPad T41p suspend is fine from console, hangs from X

2007-06-11 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
might look at tphdisk. Thanks for the tip. Looking at the documentation, though, that seems to address a different issue, namely getting suspend-to-disk to work. My current issue is suspend-to-RAM... ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck

Re: ThinkPad T41p suspend is fine from console, hangs from X

2007-06-12 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
page http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html which gives one), and see if this helps. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) and School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England

Re: openbsd router hardware

2008-03-07 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
with Windoze drivers, and aren't going to work on OpenBSD. The way to spot them is that they say works with Windoze XXX, and don't mention macs or linux systems. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Washing one's

is it ok for /bsd to be a symlink to /bsd.4.2-stable.2008mar07 (or whatever)?

2008-03-07 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
. On the other hand, I haven't found any statement in 'man boot' or the FAQ about symlinks being ok, so a confirmation that it's ok (or a heads-up if there be daemons lurking) would be welcome. thanks, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U

Re: gettimeofday() dramatical slowdown from 4.1-4.2

2008-03-15 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
timecounter code. Yours for nanoseconds, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Floating point numbers are like sandpiles; every time you move one you lose a little sand and pick up a little dirt -- Victor Vyssotsky

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-18 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
displayed, but absent a lot of caching (= potentially big memory usage) that scenario would still fall down in Pau's case where [[...]] somebody in the public asks a question of plot number 2 in slide #3 and you're in slide #55. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U

Re: plotting 2 3-d graphs of data with C

2006-04-10 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, Old Europe http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means

Re: heads up about filesystem troubles

2006-04-12 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
. The next snapshot will not upgrade the superblock and will simply use the old format. You are encouraged to move away from any snapshot installed in the last 2 weeks. that these changes *only* went into -current, and did *not* go into -stable? thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL

advantages/disadvantages of kernel pppoe(4) vs userland pppoe(8)?

2006-04-21 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, Old Europe http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means

Re: advantages/disadvantages of kernel pppoe(4) vs userland pppoe(8)?

2006-04-28 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
: irq 9, polling enabled biomask 4040 netmask 4048 ttymask 52ca pctr: no performance counters in CPU dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert

Re: (PC video card memory aperture !=0) =OS Rootability?

2006-05-02 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
about 6.02e23 different ways to take over the system, so adding one more is of little interest. This attack is trivially preventable by not allowing malicious persons to become superuser in the first place, indeed by not giving them logins. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply

Re: encrypting files

2006-07-21 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
/howard.pdf for some recent cryptanalysis work) * it's pretty close to unmaintained now -- the cfs-users mailing list seems to have been dead for several years :( ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut

gcc 4.1.1 (= latest release) does not work on OpenBSD 3.9

2006-08-03 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
?id=28582 ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, Old Europe http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful

Re: gcc 4.1.1 (= latest release) does not work on OpenBSD 3.9

2006-08-03 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
I wrote OpenBSD 3.9 suplies {gcc,g++,g77} 3.3.5 with propolice as part of the base OS install (they live in /usr/bin). Oops, my mistake, I should have written On i386, at the start of that sentence. Other platforms use different gcc versions... ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL

odd behavior in pf log: outgoing ntp blocked, no incoming nastygrams

2006-08-06 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
logging off, for just this reason.) thanks for any insights, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Golm, Germany, Old Europe http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/home.html Washing one's hands

Re: Oldest Server you run

2006-10-13 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
) sitting in a crate. Someday I'd like to put OpenBSD on it just for old-times sake (it ran SunOS from when I bought it used in 1993 up to when I shut it off in 2001)... ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert

Re: Lenovo notebooks

2006-10-29 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
is blank and 1280x1024 video is sent to the external connector. My usual 'xterm -fn 7x14 -fg white -bg black' is really ugly in this video mode, but 'xpdf -fullscreen' looks fine. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein

Re: openbsd multiboot

2008-05-23 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
of partitions and staying at 4.0 for another 6 months, then finally persuading my employer to get me a new laptop (which X.org grokked). ciao, -- -- From: Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Open source code is not guaranteed

Re: openbsd multiboot

2008-05-25 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
would become wd0d and vice versa? -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Space travel is utter bilge -- common misquote of UK Astronomer Royal Richard Woolley's remarks of 1956

Re: Encrypted filesystems

2008-06-08 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
size. I've been using cfs for about 15 years (first 7 on SunOS, last 8 on OpenBSD), and am generally happy with it. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Space travel is utter bilge -- common misquote of UK

swap-encryption paper missing from www/index.html

2008-07-16 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
A web-site glitch: The paper Neils Provos Encrypting Virtual Memory http://www.openbsd.org/papers/swapencrypt.ps is missing from the OpenBSD related pre3sentations papers index page http://www.openbsd.org/papers/index.html ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] t = 31.Aug

svnd questions (encrypting all of a partition or disk)

2008-07-19 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
to a nonzero minimum free space threshold? 7. How worried should I be about bug kernel/5709 rapidly creating many small files on crypted svnd locks box, which as of a few minutes ago was/is shown as in state open? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: svnd questions (encrypting all of a partition or disk)

2008-07-20 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
for 30+ years, and every disk I've ever used has reached an equilibrium of over-full, so an easy 5-10% is tempting... -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] [EMAIL PROTECTED] t = 31.Aug.2008: School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England t1.Sep.2008: Dept of Astronomy

any experience with UNO-2160 Universal Network Controller?

2006-12-11 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
with OpenBSD on one of these boxen? The specifications at http://www.elektronik-systeme.psoft.at/Advantech/UNO2160.pdf and further ones found via google say that the network ports use a Realtek 8139 chipset, so they should be ok. thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply

Lenovo Thinkpad T43p won't do external VGA output properly

2007-01-10 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section DRI Group0 EndSection # $Log: xorg.conf,v $ # Revision 1.1 2006/02/10 12:37:54 root # Initial revision # === end /etc/X11/xorg.conf === ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply [EMAIL

Re: 4.4 arriving in the U.S.

2008-10-14 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
4.4 arrived here today (Tue 14.Oct) in Bloomington, Indiana.

Re: laptop choice

2008-12-29 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, -- -- From: Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral

Re: FTDI support?

2009-01-07 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
), rev 4.00, iSerialNumber FTDGFM4H # -- -- From: Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side

Re: intermittent 5.0/amd64 kernel/X hangs on Tinkpad T60

2011-11-11 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
/jonathan/.xinitrc --- -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful

Re: intermittent 5.0/amd64 kernel/X hangs on Tinkpad T60

2011-11-15 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
In an earlier message which apparently didn't make it to the mailing list due to being oversized, I wrote I've just installed 5.0/amd64 (from the CD set) on a Lenovo Thinkpad T60 laptop (dmesg below). I'm running GENERIC.mp. I will probably move to -stable soon, but right now I'm running

Re: intermittent 5.0/amd64 kernel/X hangs on Tinkpad T60

2011-11-16 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
. Did you ever try * the i386 uniprocessor kernel? * using the generic VESA video driver? * AMD64, either uniprocessor or multiprocessor? thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington

more Thinkpad T60 X/video woes (5.0-stable amd64)

2012-02-01 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection --- end /etc/X11/xorg.conf --- thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu Dept

Re: more Thinkpad T60 X/video woes (5.0-stable amd64)

2012-02-06 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
for a snapshot before I leave -- otherwise it will have to wait until March. I've been using OpenBSD for 11+ years, but I've never tried snapshots. I'll RT a few FMs on how stable--snapshot upgrades work. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu

status of ACPI suspend/resume on Thinkpad T60 w/ T7200 processor?

2011-08-04 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
(GENERIC.MP) #591: Tue Oct 19 11:45:02 MDT 2010 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP Does suspend/resume work on T60 as of 4.9-{release,stable}? -current? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University

Re: status of ACPI suspend/resume on Thinkpad T60 w/ T7200 processor?

2011-08-28 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
bytes/sec, 548619249 sec total -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side

Re: local user can peek on key being set by ifconfig(8)

2011-09-11 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
have to hack up an expect script to fake keyboard input of the key in each such case. So I strongly prefer retaining scriptability here. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Re: chown

2009-06-08 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
users. Indeed, find|grep|wc reveals that of the 593 files on this USB stick, 473 have at least one blank in their filename. Hmm, it seems the whole batch of photos my wife downloaded from the camera during our last vacation have blanks in their filenames...) ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg

Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
in the battery than actual power draw by the laptop.) Unfortunately, I don't have any of these machines available for comparison any more (I had to give the T43p back when I left that job, and both of the T41p suffered fatal hardware failures). I wonder what's going on here? ciao, -- -- Jonathan

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-27 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
noise. Good crypto results in in the on-disk data before secure deletion looking like random noise, so it should make data-recovery harder. (To get any useful information, data-recovery would then have to be followed by somehow breaking the encryption.) ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove

svnd vs softraid for encrypting /home et al

2009-11-02 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
whatever you're doing for backup, you aren't as likely to omit it. Are there other FMs I should R to learn more? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA C

Whitfield Diffie hearts OpenBSD for security

2009-11-16 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA C++ is to programming as sex is to reproduction. Better ways might technically exist but they're not nearly as much fun. -- Nikolai Irgens

are setuid-root perl scripts considered insecure?

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
for setuid-root perl scripts that I've missed? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA C++ is to programming as sex is to reproduction. Better ways might technically exist

Re: Dual boot stable and current

2009-12-03 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
scramble your disk (more accurately, the data on it). In particular, don't try this until you grok the FMs disklabel(8), fstab(5), installboot(8). And have a full backup *before* you try it... -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy

Re: A question about puting OpenBSD on a Soekris

2009-12-15 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
soon...] ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA If the triangles made a god, it would have three sides. -- Voltaire

Re: What does your environment look like?

2010-01-05 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
-plot color (red). My boss glanced at the screen, and said (deadpan) Jonathan, your monitor's broken. I though that was very funny... -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Only

rename(2) man page (was: Re: OpenSMTPd actual development and integration)

2010-01-24 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
to knowledgable readers, and thus need not be explicitly stated? -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Most investment bankers' [...] idea of a long-term investment is thirty

Re: way to help: laptops and weekly

2010-01-26 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
option to /sbin/shutdown? -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA If the triangles made a god, it would have three sides. -- Voltaire

Re: way to help: laptops and weekly

2010-01-27 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
on steroids) so a human can tell cron what the ok-to-run times are. Alas, I am *not* vounteering to write such a program at this time (way too much life happening already), so in the OpenBSD spirit, I hereby forfeit any rights-to-complain-loudly that I might otherwise have had. ciao, -- -- Jonathan

laptop disk shows wierd contents when moved to external enclosure

2010-10-17 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
nitrogen's root partition. nitrogen's dmesg: --- begin dmesg --- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:39:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu To: dm...@openbsd.org Subject: IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T42 laptop, X works fine OpenBSD 4.6 (GENERIC) #58: Thu Jul 9 21:24:42 MDT 2009

Re: laptop disk shows wierd contents when moved to external enclosure

2010-10-17 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
port 1 powered port 2 powered # Comparing the output with and without the external disk enclosure plugged in shows that the entry for the external disk is the one for /dev/usb1 port 1 addr 3. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept

Re: laptop disk shows wierd contents when moved to external enclosure

2010-10-25 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
it easy to set up silver... ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-26 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
screen which seems to point to T40 or T60 series. Are the T60 series any more reliable than the T40 series? -- -- Jonathan Thornburg jth...@astro.indiana.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful

can't create softraid crypto volume

2010-12-11 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
partition? Is there a FM I should R to be enlighted (beyond softraid(4) and bioctl(8) which I've already read)? thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands

support for USB compact flash readers?

2007-11-05 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
: [[...]] o CF/ATA flash cards and disk drives which I interpret as describing (b). But I'm less certain about (a)... thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Washing one's hands

Re: support for USB compact flash readers?

2007-11-06 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
hardware list on http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html , only a generic mention of USB Mass Storage devices, i.e., USB floppy drives and USB memory stick controllers (umass). Does this latter phrase include USB CF readers/writers? thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply

Re: ThinkPad T41p suspend is fine from console, hangs from X

2007-11-06 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful

Re: how best to handle DNS on firewalled home network?

2007-11-19 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
will also improved reliability (since ISP nameservers are often flakey). One person also mentioned that s/he uses uses opendns.com instead of ISP nameservers. Again, my thanks to all who responded. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] School

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-29 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
staying at the last XFree86 -stable relase for another year, until my employer bought a new batch of laptops... ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful

Re: Machine will not recover from 'deep sleep' state [ IBM Thinkpad T41 ]

2007-12-02 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
: high. external power status: connec ted. estimated battery life 96% (163 minutes) Dec 1 14:05:34 helium apmd: system resumed from APM sleep Dec 2 11:11:37 helium apmd: system resumed from APM sleep Dec 2 12:00:01 helium syslogd: restart ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply

why is /var/named/standard/root.hint not updated in -stable?

2007-12-08 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
release' on my main system, and I'm trying to figure out what to update on the firewall. Given the above cvs-update logs, I clearly need to update the firewall's kernel and /usr/sbin/named, but what about the firewall's /var/named/standard/root.hint ? -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal

no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-11 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
packages up to date with security fixes? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral

Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg (remove -animal to reply) [EMAIL PROTECTED] School of Mathematics, U of Southampton, England Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- quote

Re: Backup strategies

2009-02-03 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
fine except that the --exclude options are not honored (files under those directories are still copied). I don't know what's wrong there... -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

4.4-stable Thinkpad T42 sometimes hangs in suspend-to-ram

2009-02-21 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
ttymask mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b --- end dmesg --- ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Reality

Re: Gnuplot, Mediawiki, and OpenBSD

2009-03-17 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-26 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
: % dmesg|grep wd0 wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: Hitachi HTS541616J9AT00 wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 152627MB, 312581808 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b % ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth

Re: Multiple obsd installations on one harddrive

2009-03-27 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
your disk (more accurately, the data on it). In particular, don't try this until you grok the FMs disklabel(8), fstab(5), and installboot(8/`arch`. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Re: Multiple obsd installations on one harddrive

2009-03-27 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
have written was In other words, at the (I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? prompt, type s to get a shell. My apologies for the confusion. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Re: svnd is incredible slow... somebody else notice that?

2009-04-24 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
quantitative tests.) ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful

Re: undeadly (window managers)

2012-04-29 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
for such a critter, I've found vtwm, ctwm, and tvtwm. What are the tradeoffs between them? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands of the conflict between

problem SOLVED (was: Re: more Thinkpad T60 X/video woes (5.0-stable amd64))

2012-05-31 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
acceleration. My thanks to all who contributed ideas in the thread (and to all the developers for a *great* 5.1)! ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands

Thinkpad T60 sticky touchpad (amd64/5.1-stable)

2012-05-31 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
: OPENBSD, SR CRYPTO, 005 SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd1: 267880MB, 512 bytes/sector, 548619249 sectors thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Washing one's hands

do we have a Perl interface to sysctl(3)?

2013-01-14 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
it could work... but browsing the source code reveals that internally it just does `sysctl $string` and parses the result. What do OpenBSD people use for doing system-monitoring from Perl? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy

Re: do we have a Perl interface to sysctl(3)?

2013-01-14 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
well aware that OpenBSD 5.2 has been out for a while; I bought a CD. If and when 5.1 proves inadequate for my needs, I'll reinstall. If not, I'll wait for 5.3. ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana

multiple softraid-crypto filesystems

2013-09-19 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
? Question: Which Fine Manual should I have read to learn this? I can't find any mention of this situation in softraid(4) or bioctl(8). ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-19 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
IBM sells refurbished ThinkPads: http://www.ibm.com/shop/used/pref http://www-304.ibm.com/shop/americas/content/home/store_IBMPublicCanada/en_CA/icpepcs.html I have bought a couple of laptops from them in the past, with generally good experiences. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal

Thinkpad T60/60p sticky touchpad problem

2013-12-18 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
=3203186688 hw.ncpufound=2 hw.allowpowerdown=1 --- end T60p 5.4-release 'sysctl hw' --- -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way of knowing whether you were

Re: OpenBSD on T61/T500

2014-02-24 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, and would get another T60-series as a replacement if one of my current pair died. As always with laptops, YMMV.. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course

Re: encrypted vnd Fwd: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src

2014-05-30 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
-encryption setup once encrypted vnd goes away? Is/will it be safe (i.e., free from data corruption, deadlock, or other kernel badness) to nest softraid crypto volumes? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana

running cvs update as root (was: Re: New install)

2014-06-09 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
-root user to have write permission to /usr/src anyway. So... why is doing the cvs-update as root a bad idea? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA currently on the west

does OpenMP work on 5.5/amd64?

2014-07-01 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
: fatal error: 'omp.h' file not found #include omp.h ^ 1 error generated. % exit Script done on Tue Jul 1 10:23:46 2014 ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Re: does OpenMP work on 5.5/amd64?

2014-07-04 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
the single word No. Could you clarify which of the two different(-but-related) questions I asked you were answering? Have you gotten OpenMP to work on OpenBSD? If so, how? thanks, ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy

Re: openbsdstore: enable javascript and buy something or gtfo

2014-10-03 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
-- the OpenBSD Store -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what

Re: Remove print/acroread

2014-10-29 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
There's still a place in the computing world for Windoze machines. :( -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched

Re: Remove print/acroread

2014-10-30 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police

strange behavior in disklabel partitioning of new disk

2014-11-03 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
softraid0 at root scsibus2 at softraid0: 256 targets root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b --- end dmesg --- thanks, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course

Re: strange behavior in disklabel partitioning of new disk

2014-11-05 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
it in either place. thanks again to everyone who contributed to this thread, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being

making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
afraid just say no fails the practical test. :( ] What unobvious gotchas are there in (d), (e), and (f)? Other tips-and-tricks? ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

PF User's Guide still refers to 5.5; patch to s/5.5/5.6/g

2014-11-22 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
. a name=addr/a -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-23 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
the unfortunate side effect of excluding all my files from locate(1). Since the locate database is built by user 'nobody', my solution is to add myself to that group. Is there a security risk in this? -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept

secure(er) image viewer?

2014-11-23 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
back bitmaps/pixmaps over a constrained channel to a display process?) ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-27 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
) and/or xclipboard(1) would be useful here?) ciao, -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu Dept of Astronomy IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How

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