Re: About the OpenBSD repository

2009-06-22 Thread Mike Swanson
Paul M wrote: On 23/06/2009, at 6:44 AM, Fernando Quintero wrote: Hello list, I have a question: I was reading about version control systems and i found a lot of the distributed software with best performance, but really i don't know much about it. There are some technicals or

Re: Port ZFS to OpenBSD

2009-01-18 Thread Mike Swanson
Jason Dixon wrote: As marco already stated, it could be a kernel module. But it won't. Why? Because nobody will write it. Who is nobody anyway? I see he has an account on quite a lot of computers, but I've never met the guy himself. He must be extremely lazy if you're already saying that it

Re: Vietnam Travel, Vietnam Tours to offer big discount !

2009-01-12 Thread Mike Swanson
Wow, are you really going to pay for the cost of sending all the OpenBSD-misc subscribers to Vietnam? How generous!

Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD

2008-12-12 Thread Mike Swanson
Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: Does QEMU work under OpenBSD? But even if it does, it's probably too slow to use it in production. Also, it might contain bugs and crash, decrease the security of the host or guest, etc. If I were you and decided on using virtualization, I'd go with a proven, mature

Re: bash for root?

2008-12-04 Thread Mike Swanson
Dieter wrote: Like many things in Unix, you are using power tools. If you change root's shell, you need to know what you are doing. Remember that you might find yourself in single user mode with nothing but the root partition mounted. Hence my comment previously about having a statically

Re: Samba printing, OpenBSD client to Windows server

2008-11-30 Thread Mike Swanson
Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: OK, I've installed Samba, and gotten printcap set such that I printed a straight text fire, but nothing else works now that I tried to print other formats through gv and open-office. Perhaps Samba is not the way to go? Printcap below. #$OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4

Re: 4.4 recently installed

2008-11-11 Thread Mike Swanson
Nick Holland wrote: As I recall, these Aptiva machines were quirky as heck, on a LOT of OSs. Ah yes... Aptiva isn't the only brand like this. I've encountered a few of them from time to time, and the experience usually varies. Heck I've seen machines that fail to run their shipped copy of MS

Re: Permission to Use Logos

2008-11-02 Thread Mike Swanson
Andres Genovez wrote: Hi!, can someone guide me, to use OpenBSD to redirect to the main page? My site is http://www.crice.org, and I will like to actively support opnbsd, Thanks The artwork can be had from here: http://www.openbsd.org/art1.html As long as you're not running an openbds

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-29 Thread Mike Swanson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Guido Tschakert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, what about 180-190 days uptime max? Afaik you need to reboot your OpenBSD when you upgrade in May and November... guido Just hope an important kernel update doesn't come by within those six months. ;)

Re: Licensing Help

2008-10-09 Thread Mike Swanson
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Benjamin Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for some clarification on Licensing. I'm looking to build a product using: OpenBSD Tomcat MySQL Java I know OpenBSD is do what you want. Anyone know what sun says for licensing? I'm looking to sell this

Re: Instant Messenger (CLI-based multi-protocol)

2007-09-22 Thread Mike Swanson
Pidgin includes finch (command line client), it's a little awkard to use though (just my opinion). -- Mike

Re: filesystems?

2007-09-04 Thread Mike Swanson
Personally, ext2 should be an excellent choice; efficient disk usage and read/write support in all those OSes, including Windows, http://fs-driver.org/ I've been using that driver on Windows XP for a while now, so far no errors. It's not open source or anything unfortunately; but the open

Mouse difficulties in OpenBSD 4.0's X11

2006-11-01 Thread Mike Swanson
I am having problems with the mouse that I had no experienced in OpenBSD 3.9; same hardware. I have clean-installed OpenBSD 4.0, and I try to set up X like I always have (xorgconfig). When I run startx, I cannot move the mouse without causing all sorts of random behavior; the coursor jumps