t; (another example: the manufacturers who now prevent you from using disks
> they didn't provide in their machines, or prevent you from buying their
> proprietary disk carriers without their over-priced, under-performing
> disks. Value of machine after warranty expiration: Near zero).
>
> Nick.
This is such an excellent, excellent point; I'd like to quote and
repost that all over the place. May I?
regards,
--ropers
absence of overtly
conspiratorial activity. And I think that things could get
particularly bad in jurisdictions that do or would criminalise the
circumvention of DRM in order to run OpenBSD on otherwise Windows-only
hardware.
But I'm not a developer, so...
regards,
--ropers
hat
there's a difference between things you are legally allowed to do, and
things that are liked and encouraged here. Option (a) will make you a
lot more popular here than option (c).
regards,
--ropers
gs than off-the-grid portability.
/my 2 cents :)
regards,
--ropers
Can you get sound out of or into other programs?
Can you post a dmesg?
2010/3/23 igor :
> I have problem with Ekiga on OpenBSD. Probably I'm doing something wrong,
so
> I need small 'hint'.
>
> Everything is very simple, I have clean PC, installed only:
> OpenBSD rel.4.6, Generic
> pkg_add gnome-s
tled to leave things as they are, even if
they may thus be less obvious and/or comfortable for us hangers-on.
kind regards,
--ropers
ts?
>
I also had a problem reaching ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/
earlier on, but whatever the glitch was, it's fixed now. Nothing to
see here, move along.
regards,
--ropers
On 20 May 2010 18:37, Ted Unangst wrote:
> Considering theora's 0% adoption rate,
Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons used to be a 100% Theora shop when it came
to video, but I'm no longer up to date, and things might have changed.
regards,
--ropers
y in the red shirt may be him. Maybe.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pVC9Iw52aTk/SGHjcHjY3hI/AAs/3tafuaaDKUA/s16
00/en%2Bel%2Bcamion%2Bpara%2Bveracruz.JPG
Of course, if it *is* him, then I can *completely* understand why he
hasn't had time to figure out where to really find RMS. Totally.
SCNR.
--ropers
Why not just email the authors of the presentation and ask them?
http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2010/bsdcan/mgp1.html
On 27 May 2010 07:30, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> someone know which commercial SW is mentioned here in example?
>
> http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2010/bsdcan/mgp5.html
y need a double outlet
(plug PC+monitor).
Of course all of this won't make much sense if there indeed still are
serious reliability problems as others have suggested in this thread.
--ropers
ind further info.
If on the other hand someone did know how to currently get graphics
tablets to work, and maybe even could recommend a (preferably very)
inexpensive (but not shite) device that works well with OpenBSD, that
would be super grand.
Many thanks in advance,
--ropers
On 1 June 2011 17:49, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> What has changed, however, is that the kernel has more kernel threads
> running (for instance, ps aguxk, and look at the first few which have
> the 'K' flag set in the 'STAT' field.
In ps aguxk, what does the "g" do? I didn't find enlightenment on the
On 3 June 2011 11:37, lancebaynes87 wrote:
> Solution:
>
> https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle/
>
> does anyone use it? any opinions/experiences?
>
> thank you
Seeing that that project's readme insults OpenSSH, my first guess would be no.
>From https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle/#readme :
> Y
like this, I'd be interested
in reading your notes about exactly how and you did things. Yeah, I'm
a curious feller.
--regards,
ropers
2011/6/15 Jean-Frangois SIMON :
> Hi,
>
> I have a remote controlled machine which I manage by ssh and yet I'm in the
> process of ma
On 22 June 2011 21:22, Bryan Irvine wrote:
>
> For what it's worth ls, is part of GNU.
>
> I yanked this right from ls.c
>
> /* Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie. */
>
> **ducks**
Huh?
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/ls/ls.c?rev=1.37;content-type=t
ext%2Fplain
ftp://mirror.planetunix.net/pub/OpenBSD/
(I didn't check if the AFS mirrors have the old releases as well. I've
never used AFS.)
Of course being able to download the files shouldn't stop you from
donating if you can.
regards,
--ropers
I have also voiced concerns to OpenBSDEurope and I also have not
ordered OpenBSD 4.7:
On 22 May 2010 01:00, ropers wrote:
> You seem to have migrated to a new e-commerce system; I'm not sure I
> like having to create an additional account and remember yet another
> password. Before
ain they are not available anymore, and none of the
> people originally involved are associated with OpenBSD any longer.
I just found this via Google:
http://www.linux-discount.de/Store/me19/ME19-A02-INT/de
It's possible that *maybe* these folks still have stock. It doesn't
say otherwise.
regards,
--ropers
I was at first *very* confused by how some information was implied but
not stated in David's email. The mixed top/bottom posting order also
confused me.
I'd like to rephrase what David wrote, for the record -- just in case
others might be as confused as I was:
1.
David privately replied to the d
some of the wiser and smarter list member then pointed out
some limitations WebDAV has. But I don't really remember the details
and cursory googling revealed nothing.
regards,
--ropers
.imgur.com/Bns7H.png
regards,
--ropers
On 21 August 2010 17:27, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
> If you need some more tipps
The Supermarines and Hurricanes didn't make mincemeat out of your
Messerschitts so you could rapeschreibreform the Queen's English.
I don't understand. Why are you not running a default deny setup?
On 29 August 2010 14:45, Jean-Francois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One question, I run gnome on openbsd 4.7 and apparently there is no reason to
> keep the following rule since nothing listens to those ports on my machine.
>
> block in on ! l
On 4 September 2010 15:57, Bret S. Lambert wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:48:46AM +0200, Gerald Holl wrote:
>> On 2010-08-30 01:57, David Gwynne wrote:
>> > we'll happily take diffs though.
>>
>> Which diffs?
>
> Although my first instinct is to immediately degenerate into an
> hilarious who'
ent release is 0.8.4.
> Swfdec-Mozilla \\ The current release is 0.8.2.
> Unstable releases that will lead to Swfdec 0.10 in March 2009 can be found at
> http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec/0.9/ and
> http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/download/swfdec-mozilla/0.9/
regards,
--ropers
no substantial differences.)
With that said, this page --which was not authored specifically for
OpenBSD sed(1)-- may be of use:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-0
--regards,
ropers
ure than others", and
there are lots of things about Firefox that suck ass, but the above
will, "tighten [its] security", at least for some value of security.
--regards,
ropers
PS: I don't actually know to what extent the LSO issues apply to
OpenBSD, as there is only limited Flash compatibility, but anyway.
2009/12/18 ropers :
> 2009/12/18 Brad Tilley :
>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:25 +, "nixlists" wrote:
>>> Hi. People on this list
; Published in October of 2009, and most of the
> other OBSD books I've seen are fairly old.
> Amazon gives remarkably little info on it.
Does this answer your question?
http://i.imgur.com/ggkB5.png
regards,
--ropers
2009/12/18 Daniel Zhelev :
> after log in I sow that the root file system
> is over 100%.
*Over* 100%? How is that even possible?
against that.
regards,
--ropers
com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=PDF+form+fields .)
Or are you trying to edit a static PDF that only happens to render
(things that look like) form fields, but that don't actually make use
of the said features?
regards,
--ropers
2010/1/5 Predrag Punosevac :
> ropers wrote:
>
>> 2010/1/5 Predrag Punosevac :
>> > I have some PDF form that I need to fill in.
>>
>> Just to make sure we're on the same page here, are you talking about a
>> PDF that makes use of Adobe's PDF for
2010/1/12 Mark Lumsden :
> Are there any OpenBSD users in Yerevan, Armenia?
In principle yes, but they are using variant called FreeBSD.
poor.
>
> Pierre-Andri Chevalier
Try one of these companies: http://openbsd.org/support.html#Switzerland
regards,
--ropers
2010/1/22 Tobias Ulmer :
> The only one who can prove that my assumptions are BS would be James.
> The pressure is on
1. It's not a race.
2. You don't get to say things and then demand that James prove you
wrong. That's bass-ackwards.
regards,
--ropers
uggy, non-quality code as long as it
provides extra access control granularity.
Yeah...
I stopped reading at that point.
regards,
--ropers
Those only work *on the console*, which may not be on the actual
OpenBSD box (because the user may be using serial console
redirection/ssh/whatever. There may still be uses for a program that
produces a PC speaker beep on the machine it runs on.
regards,
--ropers
2010/1/24 Constantine A
t there's
/dev/speaker, so with the right permissions:
# cat somefile > /dev/speaker
That should work. It did for me, on IA-32.
regards,
--ropers
very roundabout way to produce a beep. I like
redirecting stuff to /dev/speaker better. YMMV.
regards,
--ropers
submit a diff?
(FreeBSD sed appears to have the I argument, btw. No, I'm not saying
OpenBSD should become FreeBSD, just that there may be BSD-licensed
suitable code out there. Or maybe FreeBSD uses GNU sed -- I haven't
checked.)
regards,
--ropers
PS: Incidentally, this is h
accessed using that spoof.
>
> Since all my add-ons, except for one, were ones I have used for a long time,
> I dropped the new one.
>
> I have had no more problems.
So which add-on was that? Come on, spill the beans. :)
regards,
--ropers
You (or anyone else, really) wouldn't happen to have any 1st or 2nd
generation PC stuff (as in, IBM 5150 PC / IBM 5155 Portable, or IBM
5160 PC XT)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5150
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5155
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5160
On 5 February 2010 14:03, Daniel M
On 8 February 2010 04:10, Nick Holland wrote:
> With all this talk about power reduction...I'm going to toss out one
> small suggestion:
>
> Get a Wattmeter, and measure... Don't waste your time speculating.
>
> An ammeter and high school physics V*A=>Watts doesn't cut it for AC
> (in general --
rg/wiki/PF_%28firewall%29 )
But see for yourself what to make out of the above, because you can't
get much money back if my free advice turns out to be wrong.
regards,
--ropers
On 16 February 2010 12:26, SJP Lists wrote:
> In fact, I have worked in landmark copyright cases for one of the
> Worlds most successful IP lawyers (and continue to do so).
"IP lawyers", eh? Exactly what is this "IP" you speak of?
(SCNR.)
regards,
--ropers
r
than expected.
regards,
--ropers
On 16 February 2010 10:50, Stas Miasnikou wrote:
>
> What tools do you use to split .wav (.flac, .ape, etc) by CUE sheet?
e_page_437
That said, It is my understanding that Unicode support in OpenBSD
hasn't been completed yet (correct me if I'm wrong).
--ropers
cimal Unicode code points
correspond to which bits in the binary representation on the following
line.
But this is probably getting OT, because AFAIK UTF-8 support isn't in
OpenBSD yet...
regards,
--ropers
urs. And
granted, YMMV. But if anyone has ever seen any faulty RAM whose
problems a 24hr burn-in test with memtest86+ could not detect, I'd be
very interested in hearing that.
regards,
--ropers
2009/9/9 Stefan Wollny :
>
> At least for German donors it is quite easy via a direct bank transfer as
Theo
> has a German bank account.
> http://www.openbsd.org/bank-donation.html
>
> Just set up a monthly subscription of 10.
That isn't just useful for Germans.
If you're *pretty much anywhere in
ally run again.
regards,
ropers
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:30:07AM +0200, Lukas Ratajski wrote:
>>
>> Oh man, I'd LOVE to give the 2.1 version a boot opportunity on i386.
>> Just for the sake of curiosity. Anyone offering a copy?
2009/10/9 Bret S. Lambert :
>
> Yes, but it's a collectible at this point:
> https://https.openbsd
that wipe your ass and smack it too if you dare to want
something that the usual RICOs don't like.
Thanks and regards,
--ropers
>From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/ :
> or desktop environments such as Wine
For some definitions of "desktop environments".
2009/11/5 Tobias Ulmer :
> Dear sweetheart,
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:12:58AM +0100, Claire beuserie wrote:
>> Yes, I know, I was present in the room when Illja gave the talk in 2006 at
>> the CCC Kongress and the two OpenBSD developers in the room decided to
>> completely ignore the exploit h
On 23 November 2010 13:52, Toni Mueller wrote:
> I usually have a use case that can be satisfied
> with one XOR the other system
So, not with both?
You have weird use cases.
On 6 December 2010 02:42, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> The account was being run by the German charity WHS.
Since it took me a while to find out who they are -- maybe others will
appreciate the pointer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wau_Holland_Foundation
This thread is a great shibboleth, because it brings out the douchebags.
I have bookmarked this <http://marc.info/?t=12915198641> page, for
future reference, for the purposes of douchebag identification.
Thanks,
--ropers
On 6 December 2010 22:42, Clint Pachl wrote:
> Still get a single page PDF stating the above message.
>
> I guess it has to do with this PDF being a portfolio, like Anthony Bentley
> mentioned.
How are the constituent PDFs stored in the portfolio PDF? Unencrypted?
Would it be possible to simply u
On 7 December 2010 07:36, fqui nonez wrote:
> In fact, the people in El Salvador who were responsible to assassinate
> 80,000 persons; were trained at La escuela de las Americas in US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas
Note the cute renaming and attempted post-hoc legitimization
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