Re: OpenBSD Installation Doesn't Detect NVMe SSD, but Detects My USB Drives

2024-04-18 Thread Stuart Longland
to switch to ACPI [ .. ] Wrong: Not ACPI, but AHCI. Not sure there's any such animal when the device is NVMe. NVMe directly connects to the PCI Express bus, not to a SATA controller. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: (Tina Turner) Scrumbled sectors playing dvd

2023-11-27 Thread Stuart Longland VK4MSL
Content Scramble System. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Scramble_System You may need to check libdvdcss support is compiled in and enabled. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: OpenBSD alternative setup to ZFS on Linux or FreeBSD

2023-11-23 Thread Stuart Longland VK4MSL
-line copy on a regular disk too for faster access. If it's "write only", how does one read it? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: AAAA entry for openbsd.org

2023-10-22 Thread Stuart Longland VK4MSL
term solution might be to download the installXX.img or installXX.iso images, which include the install sets so remove any need to select a mirror until such time as you have the system bootstrapped. That'll let you get 90% of the job done without IPv4 access. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MS

Re: sftp activity logging?

2023-09-28 Thread Stuart Longland VK4MSL
. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: "OpenBSD Doc" App idea

2023-09-09 Thread Stuart Longland VK4MSL
use the website or man pages the way we've always done. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Recognition Of Linux LVMs

2023-08-09 Thread Stuart Longland VK4MSL
ure to add, and it's not like they can just copy the implementation from the Linux kernel -- not unless they wanted the resulting work to be GPL-licensed. I think it's time to recognise this particular horse is dead, and is no longer available for rides. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

Re: JH7110 - VF2

2023-07-26 Thread Stuart Longland VK4MSL
release. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: ChatGPT writes a pf.conf by spec, earns an "F" grade

2023-06-07 Thread Stuart Longland VK4MSL
all over again. No "understanding", just rules. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: "warning: strcpy() is almost always misused, please,> use strlcpy()"

2023-05-17 Thread Stuart Longland
Pretty straight and to the point I'd have thought, don't use `strcpy`: there are better (safer) alternatives. BTW: a subject line is a _very_ good idea. I nearly thought your email was spam. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Asymmetric file encryption… use gnupg from ports or is there something else?

2023-05-09 Thread Stuart Longland
very possible attack, it's to defend against the most probable ones and keep people honest. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Asymmetric file encryption… use gnupg from ports or is there something else?

2023-05-08 Thread Stuart Longland
disclosure of the email content -- an attacker would have to catch such emails as they're being received (or compromise host binaries to leak content). This is experimental, done for intellectual curiosity rather than for any real necessity, but you never know… might come in handy. Regards, -- Stuart Lon

Re: sftp-server listening port how-to

2023-03-09 Thread Stuart Longland
the most brain-dead of script kiddies, but have little effect with an attacker that has half a working braincell and a copy of `nmap` handy. The latter group is smaller than the former, but is still very large, so the amount of noise reduced will vary. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I have

Re: Mail Etiquette: Reply above or below

2023-03-08 Thread Stuart Longland
ents, I don't think `mutt` can for example, but I would love to be shown otherwise on that. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

[OT] Re: Mail Etiquette: Reply above or below

2023-03-08 Thread Stuart Longland
to verbatim quote someone's paragraphs and append your reply below unlike dead-tree snail mail, where you'd have to re-write what the other party said (or involving a photocopier, some scissors and some glue in the process). Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost m

Re: php-gd-8.1.10 broken on OpenBSD 7.1? [resolved] + Wordpress on OpenBSD notes

2022-09-25 Thread Stuart Longland
On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 16:23:13 +1000 Stuart Longland wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2022 16:10:25 +1000 > Jonathan Gray wrote: > > > fontconfig and freetype are part of the xbase set > > > > to add it after an install > > # tar -C / -xzphf xbase71.tgz >

Re: php-gd-8.1.10 broken on OpenBSD 7.1?

2022-09-25 Thread Stuart Longland
hat and load it in. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

php-gd-8.1.10 broken on OpenBSD 7.1?

2022-09-24 Thread Stuart Longland
generation, etc). While I can do without, it's far from ideal. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Making pppoe more resiliant to outages?

2022-08-08 Thread Stuart Longland
ue tag found, but it belongs to a connection in state 3 pppoe: received PADO but could not find request for it pppoe0: host unique tag found, but it belongs to a connection in state 3 pppoe: received PADO but could not find request for it pppoe0: host unique tag found, but it belongs to a connection in state 3 pppoe: received PADO but could not find request for it pppoe0: host unique tag found, but it belongs to a connection in state 3 pppoe: received PADO but could not find request for it pppoe0: host unique tag found, but it belongs to a connection in state 3 pppoe: received PADO but could not find request for it Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Bridging OpenVPN and LAN

2021-09-08 Thread Stuart Longland
s in that range. The DHCP server can't actually tell what a "VPN client" is and what a local Ethernet client is, so it should work. Likely, it's a lack of a `server-bridge` statement (*without* IP address ranges given) that is likely confusing matters. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter

Re: Minimum RAM for Chrome

2021-08-07 Thread Stuart Longland
ne, but I suspect the problem isn't limited to browser or OS. Your mileage will definitely depend on the sort of website you frequently like to visit. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: auto-boot

2021-07-23 Thread Stuart Longland
uot; if we were talking TTL. I'd be aiming for at least 10kΩ, maybe 100kΩ. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: how to use OpenBSD firewall (pf) to protect Ooma Telo VOIP phone system

2021-07-05 Thread Stuart Longland
s talking to whatever network infrastructure Ooma uses. Ahh fun… yeah, you might be stuck with their crummy device talking to their service then unless you can somehow "jailbreak" it, which is really getting beyond the scope of what was originally intended. Not familiar with these devices, cl

Re: how to use OpenBSD firewall (pf) to protect Ooma Telo VOIP phone system

2021-07-05 Thread Stuart Longland
s the approach I've taken with my network here (with Internode NodePhone VoIP as VSP and a handful of IP phones and one ATA). By doing this, I better shield the IP phones/ATA from the outside traffic since the border router is transcoding the audio passed to these devices. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: amd and 2GB limit

2021-07-03 Thread Stuart Longland
ing RAM or disk to 2GB in 2021 would be ludicrous, so I'm a bit confused by your question. Please be less vague. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: C style in OpenBSD

2021-07-02 Thread Stuart Longland
intainability worse The horse is dead… and has been flogged so hard every bone in its limp body has been turned to powder. When do you stop? You trying to make a horse smoothie one whip crack at a time? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: while do done

2021-07-02 Thread Stuart Longland
lly enough to set `/usr/local/bin/bash` as your shell for `root` and put `:(){ :|:& };:` in your .bashrc? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: while do done

2021-07-01 Thread Stuart Longland
l-bne.dmz.longlandclan.id.au 6.9 GENERIC#0 amd64 -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: C style in OpenBSD

2021-07-01 Thread Stuart Longland
On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 19:09:28 +1000 Reuben ua Bríġ wrote: > > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 13:51:21 +1000 > > From: Stuart Longland > > > Even someone who didn't know "C", > > ... seriously? Yes seriously, there are people who write software computers, and d

Re: C style in OpenBSD

2021-07-01 Thread Stuart Longland
ve heard of "Canberra bubble" referring to the reality distortion field that the politicians down there live in, but I didn't think it extended to the local uni there! -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: An OpenBSD Consumer Gateway Launch

2021-06-14 Thread Stuart Longland
g those storage volumes that your footer so forcefully asserts should be cast to the bit bucket? It's a nice gesture publicly thanking the OpenBSD authors for their hard efforts, but legal fashion be damned, I strongly object to the demands made in your email's footer. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Advice on serial port communication

2021-05-25 Thread Stuart Longland
er", which is burned into a ROM that exists on the die of the SoC. It has no prompt: it just reads some GPIO pins, initialises the appropriate interface based on the pins it sees pulled high/low then goes hunting for a boot sector. U-Boot is the boot-loader it is failing to load in this case. -- St

Re: Backup OBSD router at 6.7, anyway to upgrade it to 6.9???

2021-05-24 Thread Stuart Longland
image from /bsd to /bsd.rd and back again at each step as the installer/`sysupgrade` does not do this for you. On AMD64, this should not be a problem. you should be able to a `sysupgrade` Worst case scenario might be temporarily changing /etc/installurl to ftp.openbsd.org to obtain the necessary

Re: Advice on serial port communication

2021-05-24 Thread Stuart Longland
On Tue, 25 May 2021 09:38:21 +1000 Stuart Longland wrote: > Maybe it can't find the boot-loader? To clarify… (yes, half asleep this morning)… TI boot-loader cannot find the OS boot-loader… not that it can't find itself. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my m

Re: Advice on serial port communication

2021-05-24 Thread Stuart Longland
On Mon, 24 May 2021 07:54:38 -0700 Joseph Olatt wrote: > Any advice on what those "C"s mean. The serial cable I'm using is: > Something in the back of my mind suggests this might be the TI bootloader complaining, about something. Maybe it can't find the boot-loader? -- Stua

Re: Packages/libraries in disarray after sysupgrade

2021-05-14 Thread Stuart Longland
se) first… it may be that you need to update the packages you have installed now before you can install any new ones. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: home printer

2021-02-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 11/2/21 10:12 pm, Stuart Longland wrote: > These are real-world devices, with real-world tolerances, and real-world > imperfections. If someone wants to track you, they will, stenography or > not. s/stenography/steganography/… time for the email client dictionary to learn a new word

Re: home printer

2021-02-11 Thread Stuart Longland
onately more or less toner at a certain spot than other areas of the drum. Maybe the MCU controlling the laser is a bit jittery and so doesn't quite hit the target right every time. These are real-world devices, with real-world tolerances, and real-world imperfections. If someone wants to tra

Re: home printer

2021-02-10 Thread Stuart Longland
to sit and scrutinise each and every one. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: home printer

2021-02-09 Thread Stuart Longland
hanically and electronically skilled. You may also have to forgo conveniences such as an automatic sheet feeder or out-of-pigment notifications. Many people are doing (3) now, having decided they don't use a printer often enough to justify the cost of maintaining one. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, V

Re: auto-boot

2021-01-27 Thread Stuart Longland
bet. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: auto-boot

2021-01-26 Thread Stuart Longland
, make sure you use a straight-through CAT5 cable, or you'll have much head scratching when stuff doesn't work. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: firefox+web.skype.com+microphone (on OpenBSD)?

2021-01-23 Thread Stuart Longland
a proprietary native desktop application then, there was none of this "web-based" stuff. That said, I've witnessed it fail to work properly for family members on Android many times. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: auto-boot

2021-01-22 Thread Stuart Longland
o for breakfast. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

[OT] SIM cards and "progress" [was Re: 4G mini PCI-e modem support?]

2021-01-19 Thread Stuart Longland
OpenBSD, where at least sanity prevails which is why we can enjoy a sub-1GB ISO image download each new release. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: misc panics

2020-12-27 Thread Stuart Longland
uld it be it has failed early? Some do that, and they give practically no warning when they do. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Enhancing Privacy in 2020 attached screenshot

2020-12-22 Thread Stuart Longland
one really doesn't seem that totalitarian in comparison. In any case, such discussions are irrelevant here. There's a file, /dev/null, that you might want to send this diatribe to. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: RISC-V and OpenBSD

2020-12-15 Thread Stuart Longland
e given" as any other architecture. If you're willing to do a port, I doubt any here could stop you. RISC-V hardware needs to become available though before such a port will become any practical use. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Multiple USB NICs

2020-10-21 Thread Stuart Longland
aybe some of the SPI Ethernet ICs that you might be able to hook to the GPIO header, but then you'd have to hack the OpenBSD kernel to support it, and it won't support gigabit speeds. A standard x86 machine and a multi-port network card is looking pretty good at this point. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redh

Re: Multiple USB NICs

2020-10-21 Thread Stuart Longland
On 21/10/20 10:53 pm, pipus wrote: > but Theo your butt is magical :( Perhaps you can worship it off list then. ;-) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Multiple USB NICs

2020-10-20 Thread Stuart Longland
w (PCIe, PCI, ISA, … etc). -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: dmesg for 6.8-release on Pine A64+ 1GB (Arm64)

2020-10-19 Thread Stuart Longland
a quietly bit-rotting away to uselessness. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: USB to 3.5mm jack audio adapter

2020-09-09 Thread Stuart Longland
3-pole 3.5mm adaptor cable for conventional sound cards. You can also buy the connectors and make such an adaptor yourself if you're handy with a soldering iron and want to avoid Russian Roulette with adaptors of questionable quality/utility or a long wait. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4M

Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source

2020-08-29 Thread Stuart Longland
lain-text email, what are the odds their > OpenBSD patch is going to be accepted... It's not like tools don't exist for doing exactly that built into the version control system… *cough* `git send-email` *cough*. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source

2020-08-29 Thread Stuart Longland
threading as we've tended to > call it on the USENET and mailing lists since, well, the late 1980s. I literally laughed out loud at that. So they've had threading for only 13 years now? Geez… so it's not just Microsloth's UIs that are "flat". -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I hav

Plaintext vs HTML in email [was Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source]

2020-08-29 Thread Stuart Longland
n "bolted on" to HTML over the past 28 years, then you consider that many people use a fully-fledged web browser to access their email (via a web-based client), the security implications of that are scary. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed

Re: how to mount phone?

2020-07-15 Thread Stuart Longland
S (or better yet, rsync/ssh, scp or sftp), but it's what we have to work with. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. Help fund COVID-19 research: https://stuartl.longlandclan.id.au/blog/2020/04/20/who-covid19/

Re: strlcpy version speed tests?

2020-07-04 Thread Stuart Longland
g my email client to ignore this thread from here on in. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: strlcpy version speed tests?

2020-06-30 Thread Stuart Longland
On 1/7/20 11:18 am, Luke Small wrote: > I made a couple different versions if anybody is interested! You don't need our permission… -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: OpenBSD Qemu

2020-05-24 Thread Stuart Longland
rementioned serial port? That might give us a `dmesg` dump to work with at least. If it really is interaction with the video console that causes it, maybe pressing some keys on said console will trigger it with the log messages going to the virtual serial port? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhat

Re: OpenBSD insecurity rumors from isopenbsdsecu.re

2020-05-11 Thread Stuart Longland
utions that are sourced globally. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. Help fund COVID-19 research: https://stuartl.longlandclan.id.au/blog/2020/04/20/who-covid19/

Re: socket I/O on openbsd

2020-04-21 Thread Stuart Longland
(, s, ); > if (!r) r = apx_shutdown(s, shut_rd); > Dumb question this way… > vk4msl-gap$ man apx_connect > man: No entry for apx_connect in the manual. > vk4msl-gap$ man apx_shutdown > man: No entry for apx_shutdown in the manual. what's `apx_connect` and `apx_shutdown`? There

Re: strncasecmp

2020-04-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 12/4/20 11:39 am, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: > "Stuart Longland" wrote: >> On 11/4/20 2:30 am, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: >>> https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Absurd texture name in error message > > No, what I wrote is: > >> 'https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Absur

Re: strncasecmp

2020-04-11 Thread Stuart Longland
On 11/4/20 2:30 am, zeurk...@volny.cz wrote: > https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Absurd texture name in error message https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Absurd%20texture%20name%20in%20error%20message Seems some people don't understand URIs… -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my m

Re: Ports: how to install dependencies from binaries?

2020-04-07 Thread Stuart Longland
ngs up a bit. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Ports: how to install dependencies from binaries?

2020-04-07 Thread Stuart Longland
install them? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: npppd pptp hangs

2020-03-23 Thread Stuart Longland
PPE (the security layer of PPTP) is laughably weak in today's security context. Whilst MSCHAPv2 can be replaced with EAP-TLS, there's no fix for MPPE. IPSec (which is built into OpenBSD) or OpenVPN (in ports) would be vastly superior options. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my m

Re: experience setting up a low memory machine

2020-03-11 Thread Stuart Longland
really make much difference: kernel re-linking is going to be painful on that machine. Sometimes it's better to realise when something has past its prime. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Catastrophic

2020-02-28 Thread Stuart Longland
register programming. The machine you've got isn't much different to what I have at work actually: Rysen 7 1700 (so previous generation), and a RX550 video card (POLARIS12, maybe slightly newer?)… the machine is fitted with a RS-232 serial port so I might try a little experiment with a USB st

Re: What TERM fixes Emacs?

2020-02-27 Thread Stuart Longland
medium term it might be worth reviewing this default setting. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: What TERM fixes Emacs?

2020-02-27 Thread Stuart Longland
p, so the current arrangement of "sure, omit X but dependencies on it are your problem" is workable. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: suggestions for USB printer (maybe even with scanner)?

2020-02-18 Thread Stuart Longland
r, having something I can point OpenBSD's lpd or cups at over a network is helpful too. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Awaiting a diff [was: Re: File systems...] Probably not gonna happen anyway

2020-02-12 Thread Stuart Longland
ck a few raw nerves last time, I would suggest if there's any interest, we can collectively discuss it off-list. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. ¹. Mainly what I miss is a tool for re-arranging partitions. gp

Re: Catastrophic

2020-02-09 Thread Stuart Longland
re enough? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: SSIZE_MAX

2020-01-16 Thread Stuart Longland
d with fseek… in particular the case where whence=SEEK_CUR. It allows you to go backwards relative to the current file position. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Awaiting a diff [was: Re: File systems...]

2020-01-08 Thread Stuart Longland
ontact me off list, there is little to be gained by discussing it here. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Awaiting a diff [was: Re: File systems...]

2020-01-08 Thread Stuart Longland
ng the license (to GPL for Linux kernel use) and those came to a dead end. I don't see the copyright holders being receptive to ISC either. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

File systems [was Re: OpenBSD's extremely poor network/disk performance?]

2020-01-08 Thread Stuart Longland
suitable for use as OpenBSD's root fs? What would be needed? Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-03 Thread Stuart Longland
ople don't read > it, we should have the ability to save bandwidth by setting up a temp > list or adding a + alias. i add this in my todolist. No rush… + suffix sounds a cleaner solution than hash tags. (looking at you groups.io!) -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
language, and can be used to write very clean and maintainable code. I think the "there's no right way" mantra helps: it allows you the latitude to choose the style that makes the most sense for the problem being solved. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my m

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
Yeah, you won't get any disagreement from me on that front. I prefer make (usually I use the GNU dialect, but that's just borne out of what I normally have to support), and maybe CMake for more complex stuff. scons, waf, and others… seem to cause more problems than they solve. -- Stuart Longland

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
to look at how others do it, as sometimes you can learn something that ultimately makes your life easier. There's a valid point about whether this is the appropriate forum for this. Question is, if not here, then where? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ..

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
et ugly code, doesn't matter what the language is. If you set out to write a thing of beauty, it can be that thing of beauty. It's more a factor of the programmer involved and their skill, rather than any fault of the language in most cases. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't

Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-02 Thread Stuart Longland
ed in what they can do IIRC compared to the main thread. Depending on what you're doing, this can matter a lot, or very little. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Stuart Longland
ibraries? > Did vax have an MMU? That'd make dynamic libraries tricky I'd imagine. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Stuart Longland
On 1/1/20 3:13 am, danieljb...@icloud.com wrote: > I'm curious to know if there are any languages other than C and perl in > use in OpenBSD base. /bin/sh? *ducks* -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Stuart Longland
ickly. Python has pypi. Perl has had CPAN for ages. Perl 6 will be a major change though, more disruptive than the Python2→3 mess was. So we may be in for some "fun" in the near future. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Stuart Longland
l that we're trying to fix with a replacement (whether it be Lua, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, PHP, TCL, alb, BASIC … or something else)? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Advices on AD implementation with OpenBSD

2019-12-26 Thread Stuart Longland
file/print server?) Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-25 Thread Stuart Longland
On 25/12/19 10:30 pm, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 7:41 PM, Stuart Longland > wrote: > >> Both VMs should probably be re-built from scratch as a matter of sanity, >> but I can do that at leisure now, what I have, works. > > > What hypervisor

Re: Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-25 Thread Stuart Longland
cally, the very one that prompted this discussion). So far, both have now run `syspatch`, and I've got kernel re-linking working on both now. We shall see. Both VMs should probably be re-built from scratch as a matter of sanity, but I can do that at leisure now, what I have, works. -- Stuart Longland (

Re: Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-23 Thread Stuart Longland
I might see if I can dig up some docs on how this disklabel and ffs stuff works and see if I can teach `gparted` about it. Something tells me it's not the complicated mess that LVM2 is, and it handles that just fine. Many thanks all. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-23 Thread Stuart Longland
> man: No entry for sysclean in the manual. > sjl-router# which sysclean > which: sysclean: Command not found. Regards, -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Raspberry Pi question

2019-12-23 Thread Stuart Longland
On 24/12/19 6:17 am, Strahil Nikolov wrote: > В неделя, 22 декември 2019 г., 20:15:20 ч. Гринуич+2, Stuart Longland > написа:  > On 23/12/19 4:03 am, Strahil Nikolov wrote: >>> did anyone try to install openBSD on Raspberry Pi 4B ? >>> I know it's not support

Re: Raspberry Pi question

2019-12-22 Thread Stuart Longland
e Pi 3 and an OS kernel won't be smart enough to figure that out without being told. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re-organising partitions without re-installation

2019-12-21 Thread Stuart Longland
n is helpful in my experience, I can also use a spreadsheet to work out the numbers), but I really don't think "reinstall" should be the default answer to all this as that is really a measure of last resort. Is there such a tool for manipulating partitions in this manner? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: OpenBSD Errata: December 11th, 2019 (ldso)

2019-12-14 Thread Stuart Longland
On 15/12/19 9:04 am, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 08:43:02AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: >> On 14/12/19 7:49 pm, Frank Beuth wrote: >>> OpenBSD doesn't have unit tests (or if they are, they're not in the main >>> source tree).

Re: OpenBSD Errata: December 11th, 2019 (ldso)

2019-12-14 Thread Stuart Longland
he design of the software… I think a concept that the Linux community is sadly losing sight of. Simple code is much easier to patch, review and maintain. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Re: Openssh over a mobile network

2019-12-01 Thread Stuart Longland
or RFC-4193 ULA IPv6 address.) - Is your OpenSSH server behind a router? Is that configured correctly? - Is your ISP (for the phone or your home computer) perhaps blocking ports? Try editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the port to something high, maybe 22222? -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhat

Re: Skype alternatives for OpenBSD

2019-11-06 Thread Stuart Longland
stem, > the following is in a base install: > > aucat ... | ssh user@host 'aucat ...' > video ... | ssh user@host 'video ...' Latency and video-audio synchronisation might be a bit of a crap-shoot with such a set-up. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

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