Re: bootable OpenBSD USB stick from windows?

2013-02-13 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/13/13 13:14, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2013-02-12 10:17, Scott McEachern wrote: Oh for pete's sake, it's 2013. Go to your local computer store and spend (at most) $20 dollars on an optical drive. Install the damn thing on your Winbox, follow the many directions already posted here

Re: Security and ignorance from the major ISPs

2013-02-14 Thread Scott McEachern
. After that it depends entirely on your _specific_ needs. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: smtpd relay

2013-02-26 Thread Scott McEachern
On 02/26/13 11:52, Gilles Chehade wrote: Here's a schema I did of the layout a while ago: Your diagram, with Charles, reminds me of a question I've always wondered: What's with the name Charlie in a default install? Just curious.. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: X (vesa) doesn't work with recent snapshot

2013-04-16 Thread Scott McEachern
, but I avoid this. I su to root and isue shutdown from that. Best regards Zoran Can you install a new snapshot to a USB stick, boot the stick and test it from there? -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: who is using obsd

2013-05-13 Thread Scott McEachern
a comedian. However, don't give up your day job. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Is fdisk, disklabel and newfs enough to reset an SSD

2013-05-13 Thread Scott McEachern
and instead of sending them back to the manufacturer for warranty repair/replacement, they just chuck them out and buy new ones. Why? Because there's no way to guarantee your private data has actually been erased. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential

Re: xenocara build failure

2013-05-13 Thread Scott McEachern
. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Order request unfulfilled

2013-05-17 Thread Scott McEachern
. (To be honest, the only trouble, really, was my impatience.) Who knows, Austin might be on vacation or something, but there are others that will take care of business. Don't worry, you'll be fine. :) -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Hackathon

2013-05-29 Thread Scott McEachern
the trolls.) Have fun, and thanks for the work you're putting in. Just out of curiosity, what is the focus of this hackathon? I don't know what t2k13 means. Cheers to all involved, -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little

Re: Hackathon

2013-05-29 Thread Scott McEachern
On 05/29/13 20:22, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:54:39PM -0400, Scott McEachern wrote: Have fun, and thanks for the work you're putting in. Just out of curiosity, what is the focus of this hackathon? I don't know what t2k13 means. t == toronto 2k == 2000 13 == 13

Re: Compiler error building 5.3

2013-06-05 Thread Scott McEachern
...@elminster.blackstaff.ca:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: OT: the term ``hackathon'' - even the U.N. does it

2013-07-24 Thread Scott McEachern
On 07/24/13 08:32, MERIGHI Marcus wrote: cyber-attack cyber espionage cyber attack cyber war games cyber warriors Cyber 9/12 Cyber Storm cyber preparedness cyber scenario Cyber Storm cyber threat cyber attacks Right now, there are a lot of drunk college students out there. -- Scott

Re: Two questions.

2013-08-09 Thread Scott McEachern
that are reading, please let my lame attempt at humour be the first and only response. :) -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Two questions.

2013-08-09 Thread Scott McEachern
of statis to continue to effort. The process is so transparent, that you won't even know if it has happened before... Sarcastic imposters like you really get on my nerves. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety

More /dev/sd* devices in default install.

2013-08-09 Thread Scott McEachern
if it would be trivial and/or useful. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: php sending mail via sendmail

2013-09-02 Thread Scott McEachern
avoid. (Or am I being too paranoid?) Tony, you might want to try using the pear-Mail package. It makes things more complicated, but it doesn't require a shell in the chroot. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Scott McEachern
, London's Heathrow is LHR, etc. I'd imagine they chose YYC to clearly indicate the IX location. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Air_Transport_Association_airport_code -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
.. A question for Theo and those in the know: Do these IXs in any way deter or foil the NSA? Or do they just make for better connectivity? Just curious. @Kevin Chadwick: About your comment stopping kiddie porn, read my sig. I think he said that in 2006. -- Scott McEachern https

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
I said, he doesn't care and won't think about it. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
speculation to most likely status. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8u-5gsZdgc, amongst others) Hopefully, it will make you think about the direction the US is heading. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
, everyone. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. -- Bruce Schneier

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
enemy, and thanks to Snowden et al., we have seen the enemy, they are legion, and include the NSA. Now we know much more about them, their tactics and methods. Again, he is a hero. I'd laugh if his future leaks were titled To: NSA; Subject: From Russia with Love. :) -- Scott McEachern https

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
/ weak points in your hand. Anything HTTPS/TLS/SSL on your handheld is probably moot, but I'd still use crypto anyway. :) Convenience comes with a price. And Richard, thanks for sharing your thoughts. It adds to the balance. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
. They fight to kill. Meetings take place on a secret, members-only OpenBSD-powered web server. One word, and a problem can be solved, anywhere, any time. Or so I hear... So yes, he and his fellow devs are protected, while they protect the world. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
its good uses, like during the Arab Spring, but by and large it's a time sink to read fluff. I wrote to someone earlier sharing my one and only tweet from three years ago. (I plagiarized Marco Peereboom.) crap *Scott McEachern* ‏@*scott_mceachern* https://twitter.com/scott_mceachern 24 Nov 10

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Scott McEachern
to/. Both of your last two posts, well said. Thanks for pointing out that it was the Netherlands that kept that data, and why. When I mentioned it earlier, I wasn't sure earlier if it was the Belgians or the Dutch, or why. Good to know, and remember. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca

Experiences with OpenBSD RAID5

2013-10-17 Thread Scott McEachern
for the parity, hence my 18TB non-RAID = 15TB RAID5 math. Is this correct in practise with softraid? All stories are welcome, including private emails. Thanks, -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers

Re: Experiences with OpenBSD RAID5

2013-10-17 Thread Scott McEachern
and RAID1 remains the only viable option on OpenBSD. Damn. Thanks Nick, as always you're a gem of a resource. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can

Re: Experiences with OpenBSD RAID5

2013-10-18 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/18/13 07:31, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2013-10-18, Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: Circumstances change, and I might be able to redeploy those HDDs as a RAID5 array. This, at least in theory, would allow the 18TB total to be realized as 15TB as RAID5, gaining me 6TB. even

Re: Experiences with OpenBSD RAID5

2013-10-18 Thread Scott McEachern
to call it, doesn't quite work just yet... Fun experiment, too bad it didn't work out. I'm all ears if anyone has a suggestion that can turn that 1.4T into a 5.6T. :D -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug

make release problem with -current

2013-11-05 Thread Scott McEachern
/23/10, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010, SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0x9f400 (68 entries) bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version 2105 date 07/23/2010 bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. M4A785TD-V EVO -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse

Re: make release problem with -current

2013-11-05 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/05/13 22:29, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 22:18, Scott McEachern wrote: Anyone else running into this when running make release with -current? vnconfig -v -c vnd0 /var/tmp/image.11200 vnconfig: VNDIOCSET: Device busy Are you already using vnd0? No, not intentionally

Re: make release problem with -current

2013-11-05 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/05/13 23:02, Philip Guenther wrote: On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: On 11/05/13 22:29, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 22:18, Scott McEachern wrote: Anyone else running into this when running make release with -current? vnconfig -v

segfault in netstat

2013-11-09 Thread Scott McEachern
Type Recv-Q Send-Q Inode Conn Refs Nextref Addr Segmentation fault No core file seems to be left behind. Anyone else seeing this? -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers

Re: segfault in netstat

2013-11-09 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/09/13 12:55, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca writes: Anyone else seeing this? Yup (fresh i386). Just to be clear, I was also using a clean install. Judging by the way it craps out at the unix domain sockets display, I'm guessing this commit

Re: segfault in netstat

2013-11-09 Thread Scott McEachern
On 11/09/13 15:05, Philip Guenther wrote: On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: I'd imagine it's being looked into. :) Yep. Just committed the fix. Thanks for the report! Philip Guenther Thanks very much for such a quick fix! I'll test it out when

Errors building system on i386-current

2013-11-09 Thread Scott McEachern
') *** Error 2 in . (bsd.subdir.mk:48 'depend') *** Error 2 in /usr/src (Makefile:89 'build') Just thought I'd let you know. -- Scott McEachern https://www.blackstaff.ca Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you

npppd advice

2014-08-03 Thread Scott McEachern
: 256 targets sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: OPENBSD, SR CRYPTO, 005 SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 29180MB, 512 bytes/sector, 59761208 sectors root on sd0a (2463a9a61e811c48.a) swap on sd0b dump on sd0b - I hope I'm not forgetting anything... TIA! -- Scott McEachern http://www.blackstaff.ca

Re: npppd advice

2014-08-03 Thread Scott McEachern
On 08/03/14 14:42, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-08-03, Scott McEachern sc...@blackstaff.ca wrote: I'd really like to upgrade to 5.6/-current, but for my connection to work, I either have to abandon some features (MLPPP) with kernel-mode pppoe, or go with something completely new, like npppd

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