Re: how to undelete?

2008-07-19 Thread Die Gestalt
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:30 PM, macintoshzoom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which hex editor do you advise? Should I have to umount the partition before? the partition is 40 GB size on a secondary disk, OpenBSD old slice, should I need at least such space (/tmp ?) to open it on the hex editor from

Re: how to undelete?

2008-07-07 Thread Die Gestalt
Just open your disk in a hex editor and look for your data, it should be here.

Re: SSD drives: performance gain

2008-04-16 Thread Die Gestalt
As of last week, the T61 is available with the same drive that comes with the X300 and is both cheaper and available with more (and faster) options. But what about the size? Because size does matter. :p

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Die Gestalt
I'm sad to see this obvious troll working.

Re: RAMdisk, not for boot, how?

2008-03-27 Thread Die Gestalt
Speaking of RAMdisks, have you checked out Gigabyte i-RAM? Might be the right stuff for your need. On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18:09:37 Mar 27, Uwe Dippel wrote: [snip] -Girish

Re: Singularity OS

2008-03-08 Thread Die Gestalt
Are you sure you used the STL? http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/KMcode.mspx Read the section about Libraries: Although much of the Standard Template Library is implemented as source code in headers, it occasionally uses library functions or other features that are not

Re: Singularity OS

2008-03-07 Thread Die Gestalt
Having a kernel with managed code is not necessarily idiotic (although I think in most cases smart pointers do the job better). However having chosen C# is in my opinion not optimal. C# is very limited when it comes to generic and meta-programming. I think modern-styled C++ (ie template

Re: Singularity OS

2008-03-07 Thread Die Gestalt
I don't think it is relevant or even polite to question one's abilities when discussing technical matters. If you have a point to make, please proceed. Have you ever been involved in OS design and implementation? And I do not mean academic exercises, but a real world project producing

Re: Singularity OS

2008-03-07 Thread Die Gestalt
it some serious thoughts, again, time is missing. ;) -- Die Gestalt On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Otto Moerbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:16:16PM +0100, Die Gestalt wrote: I don't think it is relevant or even polite to question one's abilities when discussing

Re: Slow Performance on Encrypted svnd

2007-11-18 Thread Die Gestalt
On Nov 18, 2007 2:34 AM, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/17/07, Die Gestalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to be explained why you have to do all these steps to encrypt a partition. Isn't it possible to have some sort of filter driver that simply ciphers and deciphers data

Re: Slow Performance on Encrypted svnd

2007-11-17 Thread Die Gestalt
ciphers and deciphers data as it is received, a little bit like a GEOM plugin? -- Die Gestalt

Re: Slow Performance on Encrypted svnd

2007-11-16 Thread Die Gestalt
On Nov 16, 2007 12:36 AM, Clint Pachl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonetheless, the bonnie++ results may provide some insight to the problem for an experienced guru. What I found interesting is that the CPU usage is really low for writes and rewrites when svnd is backed by the whole disk. This is

Re: Slow Performance on Encrypted svnd

2007-11-15 Thread Die Gestalt
experience with full volume encryption is that impact on performance should be below 5%, depending on the implementation, the algorithms used, etc. Is there a way to see where the CPU spends most of this time? This sounds like there are unneccessary requests between the different actors. -- Die Gestalt

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?

2007-09-24 Thread Die Gestalt
. Your call. -- Die Gestalt

Re: Software freedom

2007-08-28 Thread Die Gestalt
as one. I understand the pragmatic approach of wanting to have a working driver as fast as possible, but if this hurts the project consistency and will do more wrong than good in the long term. A binary driver can always be made available as a separate addition. -- Die Gestalt

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Die Gestalt
Why doesn't he run the monitoring software in a virtual machine? On 8/28/07, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this article interesting. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6204348.html -- Terry http://tyson.homeunix.org http://www.UnixByte.com

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Die Gestalt
Good point. On 8/28/07, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/07, Die Gestalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't he run the monitoring software in a virtual machine? Because it would violate his parole? Who cares anyway? If you can't do the time don't do the crime. --- Lars

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Die Gestalt
is running through, I find it a bit out of place that he complains about not being allowed to use Linux when he could be sitting in a cell. Basically the deal is It's ok you use a computer in a way we can watch the pr0n you l33ch. -- Die Gestalt

Re: Install OpenBSD without physical access

2007-08-18 Thread Die Gestalt
On 8/18/07, Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, sorry, seems like I didn't do my homework. I know that they also offer Windows so they must have other solutions than Virtuozzo/OpenVZ. Thanks for all your replies! Jona Virtuozzo supports Linux and Windows NT, but on different

Re: ftp-proxy vs FTP over SSL

2007-08-03 Thread Die Gestalt
You mean with or without ftp-proxy? On 8/3/07, soulshepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any other way of getting ftp+ssl to pass normally on a bsd box? soul. Die Gestalt wrote: All I can tell you is I had for a while a ftp + ssl server running (and yes ftp + ssl is useful in some

Re: ftp-proxy vs FTP over SSL

2007-07-31 Thread Die Gestalt
All I can tell you is I had for a while a ftp + ssl server running (and yes ftp + ssl is useful in some scenarii) behind a pf machine and it all worked perfectly well. The problem is that you get first a SSL handshake and then all the rest is ciphered, preveting ftp-proxy from doing its work.

Re: GENERIC: #option MTRR

2007-07-20 Thread Die Gestalt
Everytime you use the option MTRR a kitten dies. On 7/19/07, Timo Schoeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc@, just out of curiosity: What's the reason for MTRR being disabled by default? Thanks for enlightment, Timo :)

Re: Disk encryption

2007-07-19 Thread Die Gestalt
You could patch one binary of /usr with a trojan/virus to read the content of /etc and send it via mail to a machine of yours (or whatever scheme you can think of). Full volume protection (FVE)is made, amongst other things, to protect against offline attacks/pre os attacks. If you don't cipher

Re: Generic int 13h driver

2007-07-18 Thread Die Gestalt
Performance is around 20 MB/s but requires a modification in intr_machdep.c... :s I'm ashamed. :x It also requires APIC to be off.

Re: Disk encryption

2007-07-17 Thread Die Gestalt
On 7/16/07, Richard Storm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is crappy howto. *encryption* there are as much as creating unsecure (without -K) single storage volume... We are talking about full disk encryption here, like mounting encrypted root partition :) Basically you would like to have the

Re: Disk encryption

2007-07-17 Thread Die Gestalt
On 7/17/07, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why encrypt the whole disk? I can see why you'd want to encrypt user data - say, /home - but why encrypt boring stuff like /usr? This makes cryptanalysis harder since it's impossible to distinguish interesting data from uninteresting

Re: Disk encryption

2007-07-16 Thread Die Gestalt
For partition encryption you can use vnconfig. On 7/15/07, Richard Storm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very interested in full disk encryption too. I guess it comes slowly, since there now is mount_vnd in -current, maybe could make use of it. If you find out something, give me know :)

Re: trying to be multi-homed, impossible without routing daemon?

2007-07-10 Thread Die Gestalt
nat on $cif from !($cif) - ($cif:0) The problem is that !($cif) includes $dif nat on $dif from !($dif) - ($dif:0) and !($dif) includes $cif. XX I NEED TO CHANGE TO SOMETHING LIKE THIS X nat on $cif from ($iif:network) - ($cif:0) nat on $dif from ($iif:network) - ($dif:0)

Re: Live Earth - Power management

2007-07-09 Thread Die Gestalt
There are devices out there to measure the consumption of electric devices. Just plug it to the input of your computer and you will get something accurate, including the energy wasted by the power unit itself. On 7/9/07, f.janczuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all there. I'm trying to make a

Re: trying to be multi-homed, impossible without routing daemon?

2007-07-09 Thread Die Gestalt
Do you have pf enabled and if yes can you share with us your pf.conf? It sounds like you nat everything including one of your incoming connection. When the request arrives on one interface it gets natted to the other.

Re: IDE or SCSI virtual disks for VMWare image?

2007-07-07 Thread Die Gestalt
On 7/6/07, Srebrenko Sehic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both work just fine. I myself, always run SCSI via mpi(4). Works like a charm and performs quite well. I confirm. I have several OpenBSD 4.1 VM in VMWare 6. Some use IDE, some SCSI. No difference from what I can tell.