Re: Driving 4k Display for OpenBSD Workstation

2016-07-23 Thread Nick Bender
I just got a 50" Vizio E50u-D2 working at 3840x2160 @60hz with my Macbook Pro running an AMD Radeon R9 M370X. The TV was $570 at Costco and I needed a mini display port to display port adaptor, a display port to HDMI adapter, a Club3D Displayport 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 adapter and a high speed HDM cable.

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

2016-04-04 Thread Nick Bender
Just a couple added memories. Punched cards were my first experience with "copy/paste" - there was a "duplicate card" key on the card machine which would create a duplicate of the card you queued up in the input slot. Of course you could also cut/paste just by moving the card :-). Above the card

Re: NAT reliability in light of recent checksum changes

2014-01-27 Thread Nick Bender
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Simon Perreault simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca wrote: Le 2014-01-25 14:40, Richard Procter a écrit : I'm not saying the calculation is bad. I'm saying it's being calculated from the wrong copy of the data and by the wrong device. And it's not just me saying

Re: OpenBSD pxe automated install

2013-08-13 Thread Nick Bender
and we could work together. I'm looking at the diffs originally from Nick Bender (links are earlier in the thread), and will try to review and work this in. I and some other developers want this for our own projects as well. Wouldn't be better to work on install.sub[1] and also maybe to move

Re: the idea of /fastboot ?

2012-10-11 Thread Nick Bender
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Eric Furman ericfur...@fastmail.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012, at 07:10 AM, Илья Шипицин wrote: ÓÒÅÄÁ, 10 ÏËÔÑÂÒÑ 2012 Ç. ÐÏÌØÚÏ×ÁÔÅÌØ Nick Holland ÐÉÓÁÌ: how it supposed to work for non-nfs filesystems ? properly? they'll be not checked, too?

Re: Customizing the install process

2012-06-07 Thread Nick Bender
I would love to see some automated install solution on OpenBSD, but it is tricky and SUSE-based xml autoyast is hell :D I would love to see some automated install solution on OpenBSD, but it is tricky and SUSE-based xml autoyast is hell :D I developed a very crude version of a fully

Re: Polite enquiry as to if anyone is working on 64 bit time_t, and if so, what's the plan?

2011-10-20 Thread Nick Bender
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Janne Johansson icepic...@gmail.com [2011-10-20 15:11]: What I meant was as you say, we can change the include file to say use 64 bits for time and recompile some apps, but if the database file format or the

Re: Detect APC UPS is on battery

2011-10-17 Thread Nick Bender
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:34 AM, mailing list l...@sprymed.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a machine running OBSD 4.4 which as an APC Back-UPS ES 550. Anyway to have OpenBSD detect when power is coming from Battery? (Plan on sending the system sending me an sms if so) I found the

redux automated installation tool: alpha version available for testing

2011-05-12 Thread Nick Bender
Get the distribution at http://hiqu.biz/redux. This has been lightly tested with 4.8 and 4.9 - some things will not to work :-) Comments/bugs/suggestions/pleas for help should be directed to the redux Google Group at: http://groups.google.com/group/obsd-redux -N Here is the Readme file:

Re: Unattended OpenBSD Installation

2010-11-14 Thread Nick Bender
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:10 AM, OpenBSD Geek open...@e-solutions.re wrote: Hi, I read OpenBSD FAQ at [url]http://www.openbsd.org/faq/fr/faq4.html#site[/url] I understood well, that install.site/ Upgrade.site and of course SiteXX.tgz is enabled at the end of the installation. My question,

Re: Some secure way of updating sources?

2010-05-18 Thread Nick Bender
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:14 PM, QIU Quan jac...@gmail.com wrote: SSL has some authorities which other current PKI systems, e.g. SSH, PGP, lacks. Usually, the trusted authorities are delivered along with OS distributions. Although a vendor should take the responsibility to validate the

Re: format of i386/index.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Nick Bender
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:44 AM, J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:02:19 +0100 Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: Anyway, what really is the purpose of index.txt being there then? To tell the times and sizes? To break scripts? ;) To put it bluntly, index.txt

Re: OpenBSD Volunteer needed today in Los Angeles - Solved!

2010-02-22 Thread Nick Bender
On Monday, February 22, 2010, Bret S. Lambert bret.lamb...@gmail.com wrote: Unless some benefactor is willing to come forward and deal with the logistical headache of doing the paperwork and keeping it all as up to date as it needs to be, it's not going to happen, even if getting an EAL meant

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-18 Thread Nick Bender
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Eugene Yunak e.yu...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/18 Gregory Edigarov g...@bestnet.kharkov.ua: On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:28:25 +0100 Igor Sobrado igor.sobr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:07 AM, David Gwynne l...@animata.net wrote: On 18/12/2009, at

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-18 Thread Nick Bender
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Internet Retard webret...@live.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Eugene Yunak e.yu...@gmail.com wrote: Real men use punch cards. Paper tape is acceptable for backups... You mean real *Internet* men. In person, these men (for lack of a better word)

Re: Comparing large amounts of files

2009-12-15 Thread Nick Bender
On Saturday, December 12, 2009, Andy Hayward a...@buteo.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 23:24, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: B I am wondering if there is a port or otherwise available code which is good at comparing large numbers of files in an arbitrary number of directories? B I

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-16 Thread Nick Bender
If there genuinely is something as easy as yum update bind, then great. But if so, it doesn't seem to be documented, and this is the reason I haven't rolled out more OpenBSD boxen in the real world. I run OpenBSD on my own machines. But I'm with Cian here. Keeping up to date really is its

Re: boot disk ???

2009-08-05 Thread Nick Bender
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:08 PM, PJaf.gour...@videotron.ca wrote: Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Once you've cleared that hurdle, It would help a lot with more details about the hardware, what image file you are using and where it came from (ie is it the i386 one, the amd64 one, off an official

Re: complete restore using NFS

2009-08-02 Thread Nick Bender
How to reach that server when in shell mode? Or is there another way to do this? NFS isn't available on the install media, and neither is ssh. If the server has ftp or http then you can use ftp like: ftp -o - http://someserver/part.dump | restore ... -N

Re: Winbind Samba on OpenBSD

2009-07-06 Thread Nick Bender
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Jason Beaudoinjasonbeaud...@gmail.com wrote: to clarify.. you are using Samba, or Samba Winbind? ~Jason Not a user, but samba/winbind was discussed on ports last week: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-portsm=124653912620380w=2

Re: ftp limits bandwidth

2009-06-20 Thread Nick Bender
On Saturday, June 20, 2009, Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It looks like the max bandwidth of ftp is somehow 350 Kb/s. Is this normaland if so can it be increased ? Thx Bye. I don't think FTP is rate limited by default. Wild guess is you need to google tcp window

[Way OT] Roadtrip...

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Bender
Apologies to most people who won't give a shit but I'm finally moving to New Mexico and am posting updates at http://nbender.com more or less daily as we make our way across the country. Regards, -N

Re: Silly serial console question

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Bender
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Dave Wilson richard.wil...@senokian.com wrote: In my grandfather's attic (RIP) I unearthed one of these: http://www.omnidatasys.net/product/spec_dataterminal_ti703.htm which in a nutshell is a paper terminal which runs at 300 baud. I figured it could be fun

Re: Find - Sillyness

2009-01-23 Thread Nick Bender
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Morris, Roy rmor...@internetsecure.com wrote: Here is the actual command I am trying to run and it's error output. spider:/var/logtransfer/dc-fw1# find . -name pflog.*.gz -exec zcat {} | tcpdump -entttv -r - \; find: -exec: no terminating ; tcpdump: fread:

Re: Virtualization, OpenBSD as host

2009-01-16 Thread Nick Bender
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Allie Daneman d...@drainfade.com wrote: Marti Martinez wrote: Obviously none of us know WHAT you're really trying to do, so this suggestion may or may not be workable for you, but in your situation my preferred solution is to set up a crap machine with XP as

Re: OpenBSD at Defcon 16

2008-08-17 Thread Nick Bender
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Johan Beisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are they protecting DefCon from the internet or the internet from DefCon? Does it have to be one or the other? I went to a talk called stealing the

Re: There's something about OpenBSD...

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Bender
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Jussi Peltola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Displaying the name of the file and the matched line nicely like grep -r does is not elegant with find + grep without using a script or a long and inelegant alias - or if it is, I'd be interested in how it can be done

Re: File upload/download to https server

2008-01-30 Thread Nick Bender
I have an upcoming project where I need to be able to automate the upload and download of files to/from an HTTPS server (not owned by me). The server says it requires 128 bit encryption. I would like to be able to do this using python because it is the language that I know the best and it is

Re: OpenBSD and ISDN TA

2008-01-09 Thread Nick Bender
Any suggestions? Get a Netgear ISDN router - used one for a number of years with no problems. They come in either single network connection or with 4 port hub. -N

Re: Pre-Orders for Limited Edition Puffy the Blowfish

2008-01-09 Thread Nick Bender
On Jan 8, 2008 11:40 AM, Sunnz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/8, Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: do you have a website that has pictures, the mail server stripped your attachemnts Sam Fourman Jr. I second that, me want see pictures!!!

Re: OT Re: OpenBSD and ISDN TA

2008-01-09 Thread Nick Bender
give me X.25 any day, instead of this new fangled ISDN technology. Don't forget to run uucp over it ;-)

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Bender
On Dec 5, 2007 2:23 PM, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on... twice a year and get the benefit of not being excluded from company policies which require digital signature of software downloaded through the internet.

Re: RAID1 powerloss - can parity rewrite be safely backgrounded?

2007-09-28 Thread Nick Bender
Anyone got any similar experiences with hardware RAID cards? Hardware RAID has always been misery for me. I've never lost data under RAIDframe - 3 years plus using cheap SATA gear and featuring a number of unplanned hard boots and flaky air conditioning. Can't say the same for a certain

Re: RAIDFrame root autoconfig fails in -current

2007-06-13 Thread Nick Bender
I have current running under VMWare Server using both single and multiprocessor raidframe enabled kernels (dmsgs below). As far as I can tell everything is working and softraid is not causing any issues with raidframe autoconfiguration. I'll try and test on VMWare ESX tomorrow - that emulates

Re: upgrading RAIDFRAME systems

2007-06-12 Thread Nick Bender
On 6/12/07, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 06:59:46PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: am I missing something, or did you neglect to help him with his question, which was about how to upgrade with RAIDframe in use? I had everything except building the kernel, and

Re: RAIDFrame root autoconfig fails in -current

2007-06-11 Thread Nick Bender
On 6/11/07, Otto Moerbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Otto Moerbeek wrote: Please contact krw@, he has been searching testers for RAIDframe root autoconfig on [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's even a diff posted there, iirc. I'm

errata for US daylight savings time change?

2007-01-12 Thread Nick Bender
Looks like 3.9 and 4.0 are both missing the new DST rules - src/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/northamerica was patched on Oct 29. Should this be an errata? -N

Re: PHP5 install error

2006-12-01 Thread Nick Bender
On 11/30/06, Brendan Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, in the Makefile it has this: # the hardened flavor is used by both core and extensions FLAVORS+= hardened FLAVOR?= It starts to compile hardened after completing core. I loaded the core module then in Apache and it

mpi messages at boot running current under VMWare Server

2006-08-23 Thread Nick Bender
Just did an August 22nd snapshot install in a VM running under the free VMWare Server product. The host is Windows XP and the guest is intalled on a scsi disk (LSI Logic chosen during create) in the VM. During boot there are a number of mpi messsages which do not seem to have any effect on the

Re: Apple MacBook Pro support

2006-02-03 Thread Nick Bender
Quick update on this. My intel iMac came this week and of course will not boot off a 3.8 cd as it uses EFI instead of BIOS. There's currently a $10,000 bounty for getting XP to boot: http://windowsxp.onmac.net There's also a FAQ tracking some of what's been tried, including some having

Re: RAIDframe question

2006-02-01 Thread Nick Bender
Side question: I tried unsuccessfully using the same procedure to set up two disks (sd0 and sd1) attached to a QLogic FibreChannel controller (isp driver). I probably don't have the correct terminology but upon startup the boot code could not be found (would not get beyond the point where

Re: openbsd newbie question - lfs, ffs, and cf cards

2006-01-18 Thread Nick Bender
Wrt LFS .. is it production ready? no, it's a disaster. Kind of off topic, but has any work been done towards implementing McKusick's snapshot and background fsck techniques in ffs? -N

Re: Apple MacBook Pro support

2006-01-11 Thread Nick Bender
I have one of the developer transition systems: Machine Name: Apple Development Platform Machine Model:ADP2,1 CPU Type: ADP2,1 Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed:3.6 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB CPU Features: FPU VME DE PSE TSC MSR PAE MCE CX8 APIC SEP MTRR PGE MCA

Re: Automatic setup of partitions

2005-08-23 Thread Nick Bender
Here's a snippet of something I've been working on along the same lines - this is /bin/csh syntax, and works on raid0 but should work on regular partitions as well: echo get raid size... @ r_tot = `disklabel -p g raid0 | awk '/total bytes/ { print int($3) }'` @ r_root = 1; @ r_tot -= $r_root @

Re: CCD on /

2005-06-16 Thread Nick Bender
Oh, sure, you might want your system to stay running after it wuffs a drive, but if you are running an IDE system, it almost certainly won't. If you are running SCSI, it *might*, but don't count on it. Consider cheap (i.e., software) RAID systems a way to rapidly repair a broken computer,

Re: Will different CPU and RAM matter?

2005-05-06 Thread Nick Bender
On 5/5/05, Ian Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2005, Niall O'Higgins wrote: As of 2005/02/01 ccd(4) man page mentions mirroring. So we now have: A ccd may be either serially concatenated, interleaved, or mirrored. To serially concatenate partitions, specify an interleave