Re: Server room temperature sensors

2008-02-10 Thread Paul Greidanus
Joe wrote: Can anyone recommend a server room temperature sensor that I can use with openbsd? I want to monitor temperature and humidity. I hope to graph the data from the sensor. The sensor can be connected to my openbsd via usb, serial, or even network. I'm pretty happy with my

floppy.fs

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Greidanus
Hi All I'm just wondering how many people out there are using the floppy.fs installer still? I'm wondering if it would be a worthwhile thought to expand past the 1.44Mb limit for the CD and .rd install options if there are features that can be added to the installer. No, I'm not thinking a

Re: floppy.fs

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Greidanus
Theo de Raadt wrote: I'm just wondering how many people out there are using the floppy.fs installer still? I think your assumption is that we are facing the space problem just from the i386 side. We are not. We run on lots of architectures. There is some semblance of size pressure from

Re: floppy.fs

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Greidanus
Theo de Raadt wrote: In a worst case, if there is a useful, yet large feature, it can be added into cd and bsd.rd, but leaving it out of floppy? Having the floppy makes Open unique, and it's a good thing to have. Like what? Where's the diff for this useful, very large feature?

Re: floppy.fs

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Greidanus
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:22:11PM -0700, Paul Greidanus wrote: I'm just wondering how many people out there are using the floppy.fs installer still? I'm wondering if it would be a worthwhile thought to expand past the 1.44Mb limit for the CD and .rd install options

Re: floppy.fs

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Greidanus
Richard Daemon wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-03-05, Giancarlo Razzolini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do the installation using a pen drive, not a floppy, so it would be nice if there was another image, suited for

Re: floppy.fs

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Greidanus
Theo de Raadt wrote: There is one thing that some people out there could work on. Noone in our group is currently working on it, and it would be nice. - A very carefully designed improvement/replacement to disklabel -E that can sub-partition more automatically. Something like: disklabel

Re: Chatting with developers? IRC!

2008-04-16 Thread Paul Greidanus
On 15-Apr-08, at 11:12 AM, Unix Fan wrote: I found an old email on the mailing lists, dating back to 1996, when Theo announced users could connect and chat with the developers on their ICB server. I'm wondering, when did it go private? Why can't users join and chat.. or idle.. and watch

Re: Intel Mac Mini OpenBSD 4.3

2008-05-01 Thread Paul Greidanus
as a USB one maybe I'll shove a USB wifi adapter in. thanks On 1 May 2008, at 22:10, Paul Greidanus wrote: I don't know offhand, but a USB external is always an option if the internal card will not work. On 1-May-08, at 3:54 PM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, thinking about buying an intel

[Fwd: Open-Hardware]

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Greidanus
Aparently difficult and interesting questions don't get answers until they're posted to a list.. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type APPLICATION/DEFANGED which had a name of Open-Hardware.26774DEFANGED-eml]

Re: [Fwd: Open-Hardware]

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Greidanus
Paul Greidanus wrote: Aparently difficult and interesting questions don't get answers until they're posted to a list.. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type APPLICATION/DEFANGED which had a name of Open-Hardware.26774DEFANGED-eml] And it would have worked better if I included

Re: [Fwd: Open-Hardware]

2008-01-01 Thread Paul Greidanus
Richard Stallman wrote: I'm curious how you can recomend an OS, like gNewSense that only runs on non-free hardware, that has required non-free software to be used in it's creation? How do you do these things? Perhaps I do them the same way. I don't, however, I don't claim to

Re: [Fwd: Open-Hardware]

2008-01-04 Thread Paul Greidanus
Richard Stallman wrote: If something is harder to copy, it is ethically ok to have a different standard for this piece of technology. Seriously, that's what you're saying above. Because hardware may have to be copied by hand, you consider them ethically not the same. Yes,

Re: [Fwd: Open-Hardware]

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Greidanus
Richard Stallman wrote: In the case of hardware, it would mean it is too expensive to copy... which it could be... so does that mean freedom to copy something became irrelevant as the cost of copying becomes relatively expensive? When something is impractical to copy, then the

Re: [Fwd: Open-Hardware]

2008-01-07 Thread Paul Greidanus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:15:05PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: I mean to write an article about the issue of free hardware designs some day when I have some time. Please make sure you research the topic before you do. And feel free to send a draft here