On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 08:09:44AM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
Yes. The normal speed for packet radio over UHF/SHV is 1200 or 9600
bps, over HF usually 300 bps.
Heck, a very popular tranmission technique on HF, PSK31, uses 31 bps.
Thats what, about the same speed as manual-key morse?
Doug.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:23:59PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
* Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca [2008-12-30 02:39]:
crappy applications are still crappy applications on OpenBSD, but
worse on pretty much any other OS.
IIUC, with ports right now, to get security fixes you have to run
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.dewrote:
* Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca [2008-12-23 05:45]:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:41:08AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
* Jussi Peltola pe...@pelzi.net [2008-12-11 20:52]:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:30:50AM -0800
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:41:08AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
* Jussi Peltola pe...@pelzi.net [2008-12-11 20:52]:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:30:50AM -0800, Jeff_1981 wrote:
That said, OpenBSD base services are extremely secure, compared to the
competition, when properly configured and
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:45:47PM +0100, Christophe Rioux wrote:
I try to mount an USB disk using FAQ14
(http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html)
dmesg:
umass0 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 Cypress Semiconductor
USB2.0 Storage Device rev 2.00/0.01 addr 2
umass0: using SCSI
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:30PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a
separate
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:31:42PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
So there isn't really an option like I was describing? I was going to just
create my / partition on my boot hard drive like you mentioned, but I
seemed so close when I ran boot hd0a:/bsd -a at the boot prompt that I
thought I
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:05:47AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:31:42PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote:
So there isn't really an option like I was describing? I was going to just
create my / partition on my boot hard drive like you mentioned, but I
seemed so
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 04:34:41PM -0800, T D wrote:
I have installed 4.4 on a machine (ibm aptiva) with the below dmesg output.
As I am somewhat new to this os, I would like some sugestions as to what I
could/should do with this box and no I will not rm -rf /
Any ideas/suggestions greatly
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:22:08PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
Unless we make some other unique identifier part of the way PF
evaluates rules (the MAC address comes to mind, but that too can be
changed in any modern operating system), there is no quick fix, other
than rewriting your
In the ftp list for openbsd, the master fan-out is ftp.openbsd.org and a
request to use a secondary mirror.
ftp.ca.openbsd.org is listed as a secondary mirror in Edmonton.
However, the motd at ftp.ca.openbsd.org says that
OpenBSD ftp services are not really provided at this site.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:29:35AM +0100, Redd Vinylene wrote:
It's my friend's birthday tomorrow. I was thinking I'd make him a
tshirt with some funny slogan on it or something. Preferably something
UNIX related. But I'm all outta ideas. Perhaps y'all can help?
Alright, much obliged, thanks.
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:53:16AM +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm thinking I could go two routes:
1. encrypt all of /home with an encrypted virtualfs file. However,
then the data is unencrypted
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:38:16AM +0100, Guido Tschakert wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty schrieb:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:09:20PM -0500, patric conant wrote:
I'm confused, the encrypted volume cannot be backed up without a key?
Sure, I could backup the encrypted volume. However, I'd rather
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:34:56AM +0100, Michiel van Baak wrote:
On 16:14, Wed 29 Oct 08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I think I want root to be able to mount/access the directories so that
the data can be included in a backup set (which is then piped through
openssl for encryption) on a file
I'll be setting up a new box for the house and I want to use OpenBSD for
it, both for its security and since it will be an older box it will run
better than with Debian.
Roles:
main firewall for dialup internet access.
fetchmail and sendmail to ISP smarthost
other simple stuff (have another box
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:41:36PM +0100, Almir Karic wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:14:22PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I'll be setting up a new box for the house and I want to use OpenBSD for
it, both for its security and since it will be an older box it will run
better than
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:56:53PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote:
I think I want root to be able to mount/access the directories so that
the data can be included in a backup set (which is then piped through
openssl for encryption) on a file-by-file basis rather than just
backing
up a
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:09:20PM -0500, patric conant wrote:
I'm confused, the encrypted volume cannot be backed up without a key?
Sure, I could backup the encrypted volume. However, I'd rather back the
data up as an unencrypted directory along with everything else.
I don't know what's
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:48:25PM +1300, Paul M wrote:
I'm looking for a way to encrypy backup files for secure storage.
Gpg is an obvious candidate, but I'm wondering if there's anything in
base, perhaps a creative use of ssh or some other tool, though not
something liable to break,
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:28:56PM -0700, Neko wrote:
since my partitions have 16% free on all systems, i cant tarball the
drive sent it to target machine and uncompress,
Tarball it up, pipe the output somewhere, eg via ssh
(disclaimer: untested; concept only)
[tar commands, to stdout] |
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:56:55PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
God is real, unless declared integer.
I thought about this for a while. Given that the Spirit of God was upon the
waters in Genesis 1, I think it's likely that God is float.
Remember, FORTRAN came before Genesis.
In the
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:33:02AM -0700, Jon wrote:
o;?
I am referring to the old hardware dumb terminals, which had the vt320
standards etc. A client of mine uses a legacy database application
that absolutely requires such an emulator (and is using Accuterm right
now). A Free Software
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:56:25PM +, Grumpy wrote:
The best VT220 emulator is the underappreciated xterm(1).
The s/underappreciated/under appreciated terminal know as xterm,
would be more appreciated if they modernized it a little... Anyone who
peddles a terminal emulator without
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 05:40:10PM -0700, David Newman wrote:
Any recommendations for an Ethernet card that fits into a PCI Express x8
slot? I didn't see anything specific on the hardware page or in the
archives.
This is for a Dell CR100 OEM server. The spec sheet mentions the usual
two
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:36:13AM -0400, bofh wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
But man, E450s are big. But I'm sure you have noticed that. :)
With lots of NON-LOAD-BEARING stickers all over the power supply handles.
As a friend of a friend
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 08:06:59AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:55:48PM -0500, Adam Patterson wrote:
Paul de Weerd wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 03:23:17PM +, hyjial wrote:
Anyway, perl is distributed under the artistic license, yet the
pkg-tools are
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 07:39:34PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
A final word.
For all you backseat drivers: this is OpenBSD.
Those who do the work get to call the shots.
In reading the thread, I don't get the impression that anyone is
second-guessing just that people thought it an interesting
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:40:05PM -0400, Jeremy Huiskamp wrote:
On 23/05/08 04:21 PM, Han Boetes wrote:
Yes but C is written in gcc which is GNU licensed and pkg_utils
are written in perl which is a much more libaral language. I
really start wondering why the whole of OpenBSD is not rewritten
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:53:06AM +, Jussi Peltola wrote:
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:30:18PM -0700, Ben Calvert wrote:
On May 14, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:45:51AM +0200, raven wrote:
do people actually allow remote root access ? for more
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:20:02PM +0300, Denis Doroshenko wrote:
that's it. but when i run ppp and issue dial mobile it connects and
adds a default route:
$ netstat -rnf inet
Routing tables
Internet:
DestinationGatewayFlags Refs Use Mtu Prio Iface
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:24:56AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
Olivier Mehani wrote:
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:23:46AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
Are you aware of any no_x11 version?
I am not sure I understand your last question. How can you do
typesetting without displaying
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:16:06PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:29:42PM -0300, Gonzalo Lionel Rodriguez wrote:
I dont know if it is the place to ask it, but that window manager uses? And
why?
I don't understand the question. Are you asking what window
Can anyone see a problem with using CF cards in a removeable CF/IDE
adapter for daily/weekly/monthly backup cycle? Note: not for 30-year
archive or anything, just for backup.
I'm thinking it would fill the niche between DVDs and a tape drive and
not have the throughput requirements for use on an
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:29:42PM -0300, Gonzalo Lionel Rodriguez wrote:
I dont know if it is the place to ask it, but that window manager uses? And
why?
I don't understand the question. Are you asking what window manager I
use? icewm: small, easy to configure, has a taskbar for frequently
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:15:19PM -0400, bofh wrote:
Real men use ed.
No, real men get it right the first time and don't need to edit, they
just use echo or something.
:)
Doug.
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:48:36PM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote:
Real men use.whatever editor is comfortable for them.
Vi, vim, emacs, xwpe, anjuta, kdevelop, joe, ed, etcused by a stupid
guy does not produce quality code at all.
So...try all and choose the most comfortable
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:35:32PM +0200, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote:
Yeah! Got a 500Gig eSATA mounted, 6 slices. The problem is not how
to address the drive, the problem is to backup all that data. That
is, eventually, 4 gig per DVD, or XFS, or a cluster. My main database
I can't live
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:20:16PM +0200, Maximilian-Clemens Anderer wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:41:58PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
How can I capture the dmesg (white on blue text) during a failed install?
I would like to capture the message during the install process
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:14:49PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
* Matthew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-04-09 01:26]:
Optimised out of the box sounds good to me - not having to do anything is
the way I like to work ;-)
so do we. that's why it is that way :)
You do realise that this
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:45:44PM +0200, Jurjen Oskam wrote:
Since the harddisk on my laptop was full and I was eager to give 4.3 a
spin, I installed in on a USB stick. The read and write performance of the
stick was much less than I expected, based on how the stick performs under
Linux (on
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:55:36AM -0500, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
From: Douglas A. Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you want a book, although its a bit old there's Absolute OpenBSD by
nostarch press.
A nice book, but it's out of print. It is available as a PDF though.
I purchased a copy
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:20:01PM +, Matthew Szudzik wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:44:08PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
or, quit using firefox. it's security record is rather lousy, wouldn't
you agree?
What alternatives to firefox do you suggest?
On my main desktop, I use debian.
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:27:03PM +, Gilles Chehade wrote:
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:49:38AM +0930, Matthew Smith wrote:
Quoth Ted Unangst at 2008-04-09 08:38...
Nothing beats an 8 year old article for the latest info. OpenBSD now
comes fully optimized out of the box.
Yes, I did
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:58:38PM -0400, scott wrote:
I believe it was mentioned aways back in the message stream, but perhaps
it's worth reconsidering at this juncture...
Keep the low emi/rfi 386 machine user-proximity but convert it to an X
server with the more capable X client (app
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:04:09PM +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
... Shrinking the kernel would be the only reason I would
have of touching the kernel as I'm not into trying out
experimental features. It would be too bad if config doesn't
do this...
Nick Holland
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:00:01AM +0200, Lars Nood??n wrote:
... using the GENERIC kernel ...
2) One thing that may not be visible enough is that config(8) can be
used to modify kernel parameters without needing to recompile. That
gives you a fair amount of customization without deviating
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:21:55PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:51:33 +0100, chefren wrote:
On 3/28/08 1:20 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote:
The CF wearout meme needs to die.
Specs, it's all about specs, it seems a fact to me that standard CF
cards, as used in camera's,
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 08:54:05PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
well no fucking shit, Lars.
Now that's something I'd rather not do...
:)
it was a suggestion.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 08:02:18PM -0700, James Hartley wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Michael Dexter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A system using GRUB may also need to have a root partition of under
512MB in size. A GRUB is a bug after all...
Do you have more information regarding
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/03/2008 01:07:16
Hello all,
Me with my low-MHz project.
I have been given a Tyan dual-P-133 motherboard with CPUs but it
doesn't have much memory. The board is capable of taking 8 x 64 MB
(standard, EDO, or ECC) 72-pin SIMMS, installed
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 03:04:13PM +0300, Michael Spratt wrote:
And by the way if you have ever used a webcam now days they are no longer
pixilated... You must still be living in 1998. Of course you are a real
computer user and real computer users don't need webcams because they only
need
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:34:24PM +0100, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote:
ok, I have to apologise.
I don't mean to be unpolite but, please understand me:
I don't think there exists another OS as OpenBSD. It's unique.
I am afraid that the more popular it will become, the more thingies
new users
Hello all,
Me with my low-MHz project.
I have been given a Tyan dual-P-133 motherboard with CPUs but it doesn't
have much memory. The board is capable of taking 8 x 64 MB (standard,
EDO, or ECC) 72-pin SIMMS, installed in pairs.
I also have my IBM 486DX4-100 that needs 4 x 32 MB standard
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:29:57PM -0600, Gordon Klok wrote:
On 18-Mar-08, at 5:14 AM, bofh wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Johan Mson Lindman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the key here is that not everything needs to be a 4 cpu quad
core
with 128Gigs of ram, and not that
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 04:37:51PM +0200, Lars Nood??n wrote:
If no copyright statement is provided with the work, then the default is
restriction on re-redistribution, etc. As said above, I
a) want to specify otherwise, and
What specifically do you want to permit? This is the rub where
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 04:08:25PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote:
On Mar 15, 2008, at 14:48, Genadijus Paleckis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/03/real-reason-we-use-linux.html
oh, and before you started to read, to be more comfortable just do s/
linux/openbsd/g
I have a new-to-me dual P-133 Tyan board with 4 PCI slots and some ISA
slots. (see my low-MHz server thread)
I'll be wanting to add USB to it.
Checking Belkin's website, their current card is part# F5U220v1,
Hi-Speed USB 2.0 5-Port PCI Card.
I don't see it listed in the 4.2 install.i386.
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 06:56:24AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:19:03PM +0100, Die Gestalt wrote:
Having a kernel with managed code is not necessarily idiotic (although
I think in most cases smart pointers do the job better).
Love the marketing lingo managed
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:38:18AM -0500, RS wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Upon which will you be backing your data (isn't English wonderful).
What will you be using for backup for the 1TB of data? Remember, raid
only protects against
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:29:00PM -0600, Gerardo Santana G?mez Garrido wrote:
We're writing a set of tools at work and I'm thinking of establishing
a naming convention to enforce, before we get more programs deployed.
I was thinking of verb-subject, or verb_subject, or viceversa.
As
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:41:43PM -0500, RS wrote:
looking at either a couple of Samsung 750GB spinpoint's or the 1TB Seagate
Barracuda.
Only based on my personal experience, I keep boxes around forever (or at
least until gcc stops supporting them) so I keep drives until they die
of old age.
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 if there
are features
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:36:46PM -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
On 2/24/08, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Probably broadcast storm. Fastest way to fix the problem - single
connect your switches, and don't loop the last back to the first.
He explained in his post that the multiple
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:15:08PM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When you boot the laptop, go into the bios (just to prevent booting).
Have the external monitor attached. Hit your key combo and you should
get
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 08:28:15AM -0700, Diana Eichert wrote:
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Miod Vallat wrote:
Real flemish only sounds correct if altitude is close to or (preferrably)
below the sea level, though.
I hear drinking mass quantities of beer gets you close or below sea level
too.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:43:05PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:01:40PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:18:42PM +0100, Miod Vallat wrote:
SO now do you want FireEngine? Or rather SMPng networking? Or
would you like
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:41:30PM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote:
I am unable to move the display to a projector or an external monitor
on my Thinkpad X60, which is running OpenBSD 4.2-current. Fn-F7 is the
keycombination to be used to switch displays, but it does not work.
Now, I am not too
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:26:29PM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:15:32PM -0500, Nick Bender wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Jussi Peltola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Never used -r so I'm not sure what the output looks like but how about:
find . -type f
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:41:40AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course there many kinds of attack but if somebody shutdowns your box
and reads the infos from your memory there's something we can do about it:
Overwriting
Well my oppinion is still: If you modify the libs so that a
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:14:14AM +0100, Artur Grabowski wrote:
Geoff Steckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Any argument to experience must be from similar actual
implementations using threads and another model, such as multiple
processes with interprocess communications.
Sure. I'll pick
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:39:50AM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:07:50AM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote:
The suggestion about installing packages into /whatever is fine if
stated as a suggestion and/or question. I do not agree, but still I
think the question
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:26:41PM -0500, Geoff Steckel wrote:
This is my last posting on this, take heart.
The threads advocates have never specified any
advantages of a program written using that model
(multiple execution points in a single image)
over a multiple process model, assuming
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:50:15PM -0600, Matthew Weigel wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I suppose if I had a 16-core quad-socket Opteron board and needed to make
the box into one giant firewall with 10 Gbit NICs, I'd be disappointed
that the kernel only ran on one of the cores.
OpenBSD
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:22:42PM -0500, Chris Rapier wrote:
As Ben said - we aren't wedded to the idea of threads. They were a
useful path to take in order to prove the usefulness of some sort of
parallelization in OpenSSH. I think we've proved its usefulness (and
believe it or not, a lot
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:55:52PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote:
Jay Hart wrote:
Yes, I too at one time bought a huge case. Has 10 5.25 bays. Only
problem is that you can't use all of them due to cable length
limitations.
Multiple controllers?
Onboard IDE controller (pri and sec interface)
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:01:35PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote:
Yes, I too at one time bought a huge case. Has 10 5.25 bays. Only problem
is
that you can't use all of them due to cable length limitations.
Multiple controllers?
I have one of these, http://calpc.com/catalog/mid_tower.html,
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 12:37:59PM -0700, Steve B wrote:
I have one of these, http://calpc.com/catalog/mid_tower.html, and its quite
beefy.
I wonder if you could measure two things for me:
1. The thickness of the steel panels (not of any structural frame).
I'm comparing these with norco
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:04:20PM -0800, Mike Larkin wrote:
8-way amd64 (Intel quad Xeon x 2) with 16GB ram. The BIOS and bootloader
correctly see all 16gb, but the kernel only sees 4.00GB (a very
non-random amount, indicating to me an artificial limit is being imposed
somewhere). Just for
hello,
Me again with my project.
Some people off-list have found me some low-MHz computers and will mail
me the boards with CPU + memory etc. One is a Tyan dual Pentium
{133|166}.
Now I'm looking for a great case in which to mount it (them?). Starting
with wikipedia on EMR shielding, and
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:23:51PM -0500, bofh wrote:
If aesthetics is not important, a very good question to ask is - how good
are you with power tools? Else, heavy steel boxes are expensive to ship :)
Well, perhaps I could make/find/whatever a steel tub with a lid (or an
old safe) :) in
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:59:32PM -0500, John E.P. Hynes wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
The 2U and 4U rackmount Antec cases I've used in the past can be used
with only internal drives. The front panel door (and chassis slot
covers) are vented with small holes.
I guess what would
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:15:12PM +0100, chefren wrote:
On 2/9/08 8:38 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Who makes a solid, steel case that doesn't cover up large holes with
plastic stuff?
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/typhoon/
Yes, that would make a high-quality faraday cage
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:24:14PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
I've warned you about a lot of them, you ignored that, but for some reason
I feel obligated to try one more time. I just hate to see people do things
like this to themselves (and I want to be able to say, No, not interested
in
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:48:30PM +0100, Matt wrote:
Alexander Hall schreef:
Marti Martinez wrote:
Do the rsync over SSH -- unless you don't allow root ssh access?
I think that was the solution Matt tried to avoid. I suppose he does
not seem confident with (automated) root access/logins
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:23:32PM +0100, ropers wrote:
On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However,
I suppose that some things internally would be on the EISA bus (e.g.
keyboard, floppy drive).
Huh? The FDC and PS/2 ports are on the EISA bus?
confused /
My only
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:03:31PM -0800, Lord Sporkton wrote:
All i can say is that i have a 1850R and a 5000, both of which run
wonderfully so far with OpenBSD, the 1850 is duel pII 450 and the 5000
is quad pII 400, havent had a single problem so far.
Did you have any trouble getting the
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:10:21AM -0800, Unix Fan wrote:
I/Unixfan wrote:
such a speed the ISA bus can't even achieve.
Apologies, While the rest of what I said was true.. this clearly wasn't.
The ISA bus should be able to accomplish 10Mbit+ speeds..
-Nix Fan.
So you're saying 'Nix
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:31:43AM -0600, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 22:38, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Since this will be for a low-MHz box, it's BIOS probably won't like
large drives either. That means SCSI. If the boxes aren't great or
have room or provide cooling
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:51:31AM -0800, Chris wrote:
I have a P3 box with 120GB HDD that's doing web, ssh and samba at the moment.
I
am planning setup sendmail, spamd, mimedefang, clamd and spam-assassin
on this box along with web, ssh and samba.
I was wondering if anyone has any
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:20:00AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:56:41PM -0500, bofh wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008 10:45 AM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
Well, for example, I have two boxes where I'm using IDE (the third box
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:52:35AM -0500, bofh wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008 11:38 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm pretty sure the IBM dual Pentium Pro 200Mhz that I tossed away (2 of
them!) could take hard drives bigger than 2G, and I want to say, bigger than
10G, so it really
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:07:18PM +0200, Antti Harri wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Dustin Lundquist wrote:
In the past I've used Enviromux devices, polling them via SNMP with MRTG.
http://www.networktechinc.com/enviro-mini.htm
You mean http://www.networktechinc.com/enviro-mini.html ? Quite
Hello again.
In my search for low-MHz machines, at least on eBay, I find lots of old
Compaq Proliants (all around the $300 mark by the way). E.g:
4500R: P-133, 1 GB ram, no drives, $249.
HP doesn't have on their website the owner's manuals for these old
boxes, but they do have the
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:12:55AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I'm wondering how scsi external arrays work in OpenBSD. This is in
relation to my low-MHz box search. Sata drives have too fast a clock
rate so it will be scsi.
Are you speculating, or have you
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:48:54AM +0100, ropers wrote:
On 06/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering how scsi external arrays work in OpenBSD. This is in
relation to my low-MHz box search. Sata drives have too fast a clock
rate so it will be scsi.
Why
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:28:01PM -0700, Sherwood Botsford wrote:
HOWEVER, these switches are dying like flies at a RAID show.
I've had 5 of them die in the last 3 months. (I also use them in
classrooms -- Overkill, for 3-4 computers in a classroom, but, as
I said, the price is right.)
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:54:05PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
What about a Compaq Proliant 2500R on eBay for $300?
max 1 GB ram, 1 PCI bus over 6 slots, dual Pentium Pro 166 MHz
4 bays + 2 1/2 height bays (for media) + CDROM and floppy
A 2500R for $300
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:20:44PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Put one in each classroom and run 100 MB/s to
the upstream server and configure the desktops to only link at 10 MB/s
Why force them at 10?
Well, I've never had high-speed internet and I get along just
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:03:57PM -0800, Chris Kuethe wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008 7:57 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Better to throttle the student's desktop than to throttle the student.
:)
You don't know the students I went there.
Ok, then forget Cat5e. Fibre will make
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