Re: pcengines apu boards

2017-11-30 Thread Bryan Everly
I'm running my primary firewall at home on an apu2... On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 15:08 -0700, Base Pr1me wrote: > I run 5 apu2 devices with no problems. I don't have any apu3 devices > ... yet. > > On 11/30/17 3:00 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > > I was wondering if anybody is successfully running

Re: OT - "Intel Management Engine" security issues

2017-09-08 Thread Bryan Everly
Dave, You might want to take a look at both the Libreboot and Coreboot open source projects. The challenge with the IME is that if you literally disable it, it will shut down the system - and it's code is pretty heavily encrypted. The Coreboot project has had some limited success

Re: Lumina enable Shut Down

2017-07-24 Thread Bryan Everly
On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 07:34 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Whatever anyone wants to do to de-secure their own machine, but this > type of thing should NEVER be default configuration applied by a > package. > > I think the entire approach is dumb. > > It's like adding a "shutdown" built-in to

Re: Lumina enable Shut Down

2017-07-24 Thread Bryan Everly
On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 09:51 +0200, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote: > I totally agree with you, but if you want to use the shutdown > button from within Lumina you currently need to be member of the > 'operator' group [0]. > > [0] >

Re: Thinking about writing something I'm calling wifid

2016-08-03 Thread Bryan Everly
Hi everyone, I'm looking for feedback before I burn time on this project so please let me know what you think. I'm thinking about building a daemon that I'll write in C (looked at the httpd code in /usr.sbin/httpd as a reference) that essentially monitors your network connectivity in the

Thinking about writing something I'm calling wifid

2016-08-02 Thread Bryan Everly
Hi everyone, I'm looking for feedback before I burn time on this project so please let me know what you think. I'm thinking about building a daemon that I'll write in C (looked at the httpd code in /usr.sbin/httpd as a reference) that essentially monitors your network connectivity in the

[Q] Thinkpad x230, softraid crypto and ZZZ

2016-07-03 Thread Bryan Everly
Hi, I have suspend to RAM working just fine on this system but when I try to suspend to disk (ZZZ) it just hangs the system (I thought it might just be slow so I let it run for 2 hours and it never completed). Some data points: 1. I encrypt my boot drive (sd0) with softraid 2. My

Sparc64 and XVR-100 boot error running -current

2016-05-31 Thread Bryan Everly
Hi misc@ I'm trying to get an XVR-100 working in my SunBlade 2500 workstation and I'm hitting a roadblock I can't overcome. Essentially what happens is, the system boots. Then when, on my AMD64 machines the display changes resolution for the rest of the boot process, I get some sort of crash.

Re: non-wintel hardware choices

2016-05-05 Thread Bryan Everly
Unfortunately PA-RISC doesn't have X support at the console. You can run X on it and have the Windows render on a SPARC, MIPS or Intel platform though. Thanks, Bryan > On May 5, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi, > > Gregory Edigarov wrote: >> if I

Re: MacBook 9,1 or 8,1

2016-04-27 Thread Bryan Everly
, Joerg Jung wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:41:50AM -0400, Bryan Everly wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone had success with either of the new 12" Retina MacBooks? My >>> search of marc.info came up empty. >> >> I own a MacBook8,2 and efiboot as well as

MacBook 9,1 or 8,1

2016-04-27 Thread Bryan Everly
Hi everyone Has anyone had success with either of the new 12" Retina MacBooks? My search of marc.info came up empty. Thanks, Bryan

Re: Upgrade to 5.9 full disk encryption

2016-04-15 Thread Bryan Everly
Happy to help! :) Thanks, Bryan > On Apr 15, 2016, at 6:35 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > > Bryan Everly wrote: >> Boot the installer. Exit to the shell. Then do: >> >> bioctl -c C -l /dev/sd0a softraid0 >> >> (Substitute for your

Re: Upgrade to 5.9 full disk encryption

2016-04-15 Thread Bryan Everly
Boot the installer. Exit to the shell. Then do: bioctl -c C -l /dev/sd0a softraid0 (Substitute for your actual device that is the softraid container). You will be promoted for your password. Watch for the console message telling you what it mounted as. Then type exit to return to the installer

Re: iMac computer. Which architecture. macppc?

2016-03-06 Thread Bryan Everly
Depends on the age. If it is basically "all screen" and indicates G5 on the back then macppc. If not a G5, then amd64. If it is a crt or the one that looks like a desk lamp, macppc. Thanks, Bryan > On Mar 6, 2016, at 8:52 AM, Chris Bennett > wrote: > > A

Re: VAX - are we dropping support in 5.9?

2016-01-25 Thread Bryan Everly
Christian, I am willing to help. My stable of machines includes: * SunBlade 100 (sparc64) * HP C3700 (hppa) * SGI O2 (sgi) * AlphaStation 500/400 (alpha) * VAXstation 3100 (VAX) - I can improve this if necessary. I have found a VAXstation 4000 that is more capable on eBay * Mac Mini G4 (macppc)

Re: VAX - are we dropping support in 5.9?

2016-01-23 Thread Bryan Everly
PM, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > >> On 2016-01-23, Bryan Everly <br...@bceassociates.com> wrote: >> >> I hope to add some of my time on these less popular architectures to >> try and fix that. > > It's the comparatively popular platforms

Re: VAX - are we dropping support in 5.9?

2016-01-23 Thread Bryan Everly
Raf, I hope to add some of my time on these less popular architectures to try and fix that. :) Thanks, Bryan > On Jan 23, 2016, at 5:34 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 09:33:21PM GMT, Bryan C. Everly wrote: >> >> I run 5.9-current on my other machines

Re: USB external floppy

2015-12-14 Thread Bryan Everly
Thanks. Yes. That's it. A Vaxatation 3100 boot disk. Any particular vendor you'd recommend as known to work? Thanks, Bryan > On Dec 14, 2015, at 4:25 AM, Tati Chevron wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 06:11:07PM -0500, Bryan C. Everly wrote: >> I'm wanting to create a

Re: Suspend on Macbook Pro Retina (MacbookPro 11,1)

2015-12-06 Thread Bryan Everly
Performance is great from my perspective. No noticeable lag, etc. The wifi will probably never get a driver in OpenBSD though (only a closed source driver in Linux) and power management is flakey (even in Linux). Just keep that in mind. Thanks, Bryan > On Dec 6, 2015, at 5:06 PM, Артур Истомин

Re: OpenBSD as a pentester PC?

2015-11-26 Thread Bryan Everly
I have been slowly trying to add such tools to the ports tree. If you can give me a list of the ones you are interested in from most important to least I will see what I can do. Thanks, Bryan > On Nov 26, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Mohammad BadieZadegan > wrote: > > Hi every

Re: MacbookPro 11,1

2015-11-23 Thread Bryan Everly
I only had to bless my thumb drive so the keyboard worked. Everything else is native when booting from the hard drive afaik. Thanks, Bryan > On Nov 23, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 04:20:56PM -0500, Bryan C. Everly wrote: >> The

Re: Advices for a new laptop

2015-10-29 Thread Bryan Everly
The X series and the T series Thinkpads work really well. My x220 is outstanding. The only device that isn't supported is the fingerprint reader. Also the mSATA slot is great for a second SSD. I dual boot OpenBSD and Arch (for when I need a Virtual Machine) and just use the F12 key at boot to

Re: Intel Atom?

2015-07-27 Thread Bryan Everly
On the USB connector I didn't notice it when I installed the board but I can look when I get home in a couple of days. I haven't pushed it to breaking but it has yet to present a bottleneck. Thanks, Bryan On Jul 27, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Quartz qua...@sneakertech.com wrote: I just deployed an

Re: which netbook not to buy?

2015-07-12 Thread Bryan Everly
I am using an X220 and it is working wonderfully. Great battery life. Solid performance compiling large projects like Open JDK. I upgraded the display to IPS for less than $100 in parts on eBay and about ten minutes with a screwdriver. Thanks, Bryan On Jul 12, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Theo de Raadt

Re: Chromium in the latest snapshot packages

2015-06-22 Thread Bryan Everly
Anything I can do to help diagnose the problem? Thanks, Bryan On Jun 22, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:58:37PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: On 2015-06-22, Bryan C. Everly br...@bceassociates.com wrote: I wiped and re-loaded my laptop