Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread ttw+bsd
On 14.09-20:43, Nick Holland wrote: [ ... ] Speed matters. Almost as much as some things, and nowhere near as much as others. beautifully specific and vague, i'd challenge anyone to sum up benchmarking better. if that's not a quote, it is now; i'm writing it down and sticking it to my wall.

Re: Samsung HD License Issue

2009-05-05 Thread ttw+bsd
On 04.05-08:17, Jochem Kossen wrote: [ ... ] today i bought a Samsung Laptop Drive, 160GB, Model Number is HM160HC. It came in a anti-static plastic bag together with a little leaflet. Usually i don't read those, but today i did, and came across the following paragraph: Hybrid

Re: Donations (was, sadly, European orders)

2009-04-02 Thread ttw+bsd
On 02.04-09:49, Alf Schlichting wrote: [ ... ] as far as i am concerned (and most likely the majority of OpenBSD users) there is no need for you to justify yourself (or any other developer) in public. The product (OpenBSD) speeks for itself. +1

Re: ssh tunneling

2009-04-01 Thread ttw+bsd
On 01.04-17:21, Jay Jesus Amorin wrote: [ ... ] I have a firewall rule that allow ssh from computer-1 to computer-2 and deny ssh from computer-2 to computer-1. is it possible to a tunnel *ssh **myu...@computer-2* myu...@computer-2*'svn update svn+ssh://u...@computer-1/svn/data /home/myuser'

Re: pppoe server

2009-03-09 Thread ttw+bsd
On 08.03-11:13, Lo?=?VAI DC!niel wrote: [ ... ] I wish to experiment setting up a PPPoE server (AC) on OpenBSD 4.4. Although I've read the pppoe(8) man page and googled around, it is not clear for me how to set up such configuration. man sppp

Re: Limit number of login sessions

2008-09-24 Thread ttw+bsd
On 24.09-09:48, Maximo Pech wrote: Well I guess I will have to resolve this by coding something. What do you think about this: [ ... ] would you not be better to use ALTQ to limit the bandwidth available to each user? then if they share their password their only sharing their own use? if not

Re: UPDATE: mozilla-firefox-3.0

2008-07-17 Thread ttw+bsd
On 17.07-10:26, Jason Dixon wrote: [ ... ] I don't have any customers that use Java for client-side image rendering, so I can't speak as to how it would compare. I suspect that Java wouldn't be as efficient as flash for passing instructions to the client, but that's just a hunch. performance

Re: timezone issue

2008-04-10 Thread ttw+bsd
On 10.04-11:06, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: [ ... ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] [10:59:59] $ date -u Thu Apr 10 09:00:01 UTC 2008 presumably the prompt is showing local time which is UTC +2 (+1 for CET and +1 for summer time). so all is well. as for the sysmon output you'll probably find (but i

cvs comparisons [ot]

2008-03-18 Thread ttw+bsd
been setting up a repository of various development stuff and finding subversion to be horrifically slow and very hard on resources. struggling to find actual comparisons with CVS (lots of opinions and statements about SVN tagging and branching being better) but hoping someone here could help with

Re: IPSec tunnel problem

2008-03-01 Thread ttw+bsd
On 01.03-00:39, Alexey Vatchenko wrote: [ ... ] No, i don't use same network address for two networks. then you need to alter you settings to specify the actual networks that you're using. for example, you could define the remote network to be 192.168.123.123/32 and then route everything for

Re: 4.2 patchset for PR#5563/#5704

2008-01-29 Thread ttw+bsd
On 17.01-22:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: need an education here. created a patchset for this problem and i'm about to test that against 4.2 GENERIC and have a couple of questions 1. are the results generally intersting? should i post them somewhere (assuming tests go right)

4.2 patchset for PR#5563

2008-01-17 Thread ttw+bsd
need an education here. created a patchset for this problem and i'm about to test that against 4.2 GENERIC and have a couple of questions 1. are the results generally intersting? should i post them somewhere (assuming tests go right) assuming above is yes 2.

Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread ttw+bsd
On 12.12-16:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried using pkgsrc-2007Q3 but it sucks. Updating userland in production environment with pkgsrc on a non-NetBSD platform is a nightmare. i'm working on this. will post when significant progress has been made. in my opinion having a working pkgsrc

Re: HUAWEI not recognized properly (3 modem)

2007-12-11 Thread ttw+bsd
On 11.12-16:11, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/12/11 16:13, Markus Bergkvist wrote: I borrowed a HUAWEI modem just to see how it is recognized. With umass enabled it is recognized as a CD. Disabling umass and it is found as ugen. From this thread

pf max-src-conn states

2007-11-12 Thread ttw+bsd
two questions relating to the above 1. trying to use 'max-src-conn 1' to limit service to one connection per host (with overload table) but when i disconnect and re-reconnect i get blocked. should this state expire when correctly closed, allowing a second connection, or is the timeout

Re: PPD vs printer driver question

2007-11-11 Thread ttw+bsd
On 10.11-17:01, Predrag Punosevac wrote: [ ... ] PPD files are post script description files that act as a drivers for post script printers. This seems clear to me. no. they simply describe the functions available on the printer. this allows the interface to display those printer options to

Re: Printing with apsfilter

2007-11-11 Thread ttw+bsd
On 11.11-06:51, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: [ ... ] Now I only know what you people seem to be saying about PPD files and drivers. I have never used CUPS either. However long ago I have read that postscript is a PCL - printer command language. And most printers these days support printing

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread ttw+bsd
On 31.10-08:40, Theo de Raadt wrote: [ ... ] Yeah, right. [ ... ] I don't understand. Is newbies learning new things a waste to you? Do you think they won't really learn anything unless the patch is approved? Or will the patches not be subject to peer review? Or are you worried at who

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread ttw+bsd
On 31.10-08:20, Theo de Raadt wrote: [ ... ] They don't need a list. They could already have started coding. Yet we see how few people actually do start coding. Instead, they choose to write in english... on the counter-side we appear to have people who can code but are unable to

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-02 Thread ttw+bsd
On 02.10-09:56, Marcus Andree wrote: Theo is the copyright holder of the CD directory structure used by the install CDs. If someone wanna sell a CD (or DVD) legally, s/he will have to: - get a written permission from Theo or - code an entirely new installation procedure i find this all

Re: OpenBSD sticker considered cool by a layman

2007-10-02 Thread ttw+bsd
On 02.10-15:43, ?ke Nordin wrote: [ ... ] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565 Cool link... Information about an article about privacy, and for downloading it you need javascript and whatever more... (I didn't manage to get the full text). Not to mention no

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-02 Thread ttw+bsd
On 02.10-11:46, Bob Beck wrote: (though i have to confess, i haven't made a donation since i upgraded my gateway to 4.1 ... i have an excuse !!! and it was only last week. and i will) And this is exactly the problem. Look, you guys can quibble all you want about awww, we should be

Re: OpenBSD sticker considered cool by a layman

2007-10-01 Thread ttw+bsd
On 30.09-10:03, Anton Karpov wrote: [ ... ] The same here. I have wireframe puffy on the back of my car. VERY attractive: of course, if you were _really_ security conscious you would have cropped the license plate no ;-)

Re: Loading PF after pppoe

2007-09-27 Thread ttw+bsd
On 27.09-08:59, Amit Finkler wrote: I now use the in-kernel pppoe and pf, but on boot pf loads itself before the networking is up. How does one cause the networking to be up before the pf rules? i tend to load a basic ruleset during boot and then either overwrite it or update it with

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-26 Thread ttw+bsd
but it allows some users to not have the freedoms you claim to defend. think you'll struggle to find people here who claim to defend freedom. personally, i'm a believer and practitioner, i leave the defending to the mis-guided and the hypocrites.

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-24 Thread ttw+bsd
On 24.09-10:25, Jason Dixon wrote: [ ... ] What I'm trying to say is that all the services I listed before make their own little SELinux layer with appropriate policy built into them. Better than SELinux though is that the monitor is enabled by default and generally can't be turned off.

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-24 Thread ttw+bsd
On 24.09-11:49, Can E. Acar wrote: [ ... ] The guy can be some stupid binary software with an if(uid!=root) bail(); People running arbitrary binary software requiring root on their systems deserve what they get. You can not work around this stupidity by ANY policy. that is not the case and

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-24 Thread ttw+bsd
On 24.09-13:48, Darren Spruell wrote: [ ... ] Oh, that sounds like a recipe for success. - Run _arbitrary_ _binary_ application on system. Intend to use policy wrapper to restrict to allowed operations. exactly, if the application cannot run within the defined policies it will not be allowed

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-24 Thread ttw+bsd
On 24.09-14:28, Luke Bakken wrote: [ ... ] Intelligent sysadmins know every setuid binary on their system. Unintelligent ones get owned. you'll forgive me if this does not sound intelligent to me. a consiencous sysadmin looks at the requirements and picks the best tools to match. in the vast

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?

2007-09-22 Thread ttw+bsd
On 22.09-02:06, Luca Corti wrote: [ ... ] We are talking about OpenBSD here, and support for VRF is not there. That may change faster then you expect These are great news. If the implementation will allow to assign interfaces to different VRFs it would solve the virtual router/firewall

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-22 Thread ttw+bsd
On 22.09-16:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [ ... ] exercise for the reader: find somebody using SELinux. ask them to describe their policy over the phone. then repeat it back to them. did you get it right? [ ... ] In other words, since debian packages, by policy, must just work on