ftp.openbsd.org welcome message out of date

2008-12-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
When logging into the ftp server I get the nice ascii puffy, but it also says OpenBSD 4.4 is available for pre-order! Now that 4.4 is out the CDs are not *pre-ordered* but ordered. This is not a problem, but since nobody has brought it up before nor has the ftp server been updated, i'm letting

Re: ftp.openbsd.org welcome message out of date

2008-12-01 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
and yes i sent this to beck too. (I think that's who would be incharge of updating it). Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: When logging into the ftp server I get the nice ascii puffy, but it also says OpenBSD 4.4 is available for pre-order! Now that 4.4 is out the CDs are not *pre-ordered

Re: Howto Create a Auto-Extract Package with Shell Script tar ?

2010-04-10 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 4/9/10 9:17 PM, Aaron Lewis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make a small binary package , which aims to install some X11 fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype. Creating such a binary package will allow me to port it on any UNIX/Linux system , very useful. Firstly i need to

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-14 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 4/14/10 5:11 AM, Zachary Uram wrote: As a long time Linux user I will soon try out OpenBSD, I have been reading the list emails and contacted 1 OpenBSD top person who was very rude. There is some of the RTFM or get lost attitude in Linux, but if a questioner seems sincere there is usually a

Re: macbook pro 5,5

2010-03-24 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
I run OpenBSD amd64 current (as of 2 weeks ago) on my MacBookPro5,3 (the latest 15 inch). Overall, the hardware is pretty well supported. I'm dual booting between OpenBSD and OSX 10.6.2. For the last year or so I've been meaning to write a dual-booting guide to send to nick for the faq, but

Re: macbook pro 5,5

2010-03-24 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/24/10 8:10 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:12:13PM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: On 3/24/10 6:49 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:19:31PM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: I run OpenBSD amd64 current (as of 2 weeks ago) on my MacBookPro5,3

Re: macbook pro 5,5

2010-03-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/24/10 11:24 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:26:59PM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: Here is a new mixerctl -v: do any of the inputs.dac-?:?_mute change to 'on' when you plug in the headphones? Nope, only outputs.hp_sense goes from unplugged to plugged.

Re: macbook pro 5,5

2010-03-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/24/10 11:37 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:26:59PM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: In the 3/9 kernel, there is no sound output anywhere. In the 3/23 kernel, I get output in headphones. Here is a new mixerctl -v: outputs.hp_source=dac-2:3 [ dac-2:3

Re: macbook pro 5,5

2010-03-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/25/10 12:44 PM, Ted Roby wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Lars Noodenlars.cura...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/24/10 21:02 , Pau wrote: I was also wondering whether it is possible to have openbsd on the laptop as the only OS. I am guessing that the EFI could give trouble. I've

Re: OT: javascript deobfuscator?

2010-04-07 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 4/7/10 4:47 PM, bofh wrote: Anyone know of a good standalone javascript deobfuscator? We want to run it against something like the results from tcpflow. Thanks. Standalone... not really, but I use a firefox plugin[1] and that has worked nicely for everything I've had to do so far. I

Re: LLVM build

2010-08-23 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 8/23/10 7:16 PM, Rodrigo Mosconi wrote: Dears, Anyone tried to build the openbsd using the llvm compiler, like http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang? Also, the same concept could be ported to OpenBSD? In my opinion, the openbsd want to be a GPL-free OpenSource OS, and the

Murmur (Mumble server) or alternative on OpenBSD?

2010-11-29 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
Greetings o' fellows of misc@, Inspired by my refusal to run Skype, I'm looking to set up a voice chat server to run on OpenBSD, and I came across murmur a few weeks ago. It meets my requirements of being able to encrypt traffic, being BSD licensed, and having a client for windows so that my

Re: OpenBSD 4.9 pre-orders

2011-03-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/15/11 5:10 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: I've turned on OpenBSD 4.9 pre-orders. Support us by buying something please. These sales are a part of keeping the project going. As for clothing... there's going to be a black hoodie this time. Of course there is an OpenBSD 4.9 song to go with the

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-21 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 4/21/11 6:49 PM, J Sisson wrote: Order 1 with your shipping address, then order N - 1 with Richard Stallman's address. Problem solved. Brilliant! I hadn't thought of that, it's almost as good as http://xkcd.com/225

What IRCD is preferred among true security minded folk?

2011-04-28 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
Dear Misc, This is somewhat off topic, but it's been on my mind for quite some time, and someone just brought up irc, so I thought I'd ask. I've been looking to set up an irc server for some time now. It would be mostly for personal use and I don't plan on having more than a handful of

High performance IO (sendfile(), caching, and libev(ent))

2012-12-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
/?l=openbsd-miscm=112690025715479w=2 [2] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c [3] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/sys/kern/syscalls.c Many thanks for any and all advice, Jean-Philippe Ouellet

Re: High performance IO (sendfile(), caching, and libev(ent))

2012-12-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 12/20/12 3:53 AM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: and madvise() them to not be swapped out? Oops, I think I might have misinterpreted the meaning of MADV_WILLNEED. I think I meant mlock().

Re: High performance IO (sendfile(), caching, and libev(ent))

2012-12-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 12/20/12 4:20 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 04:06:52AM -0500, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: On 12/20/12 3:53 AM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: and madvise() them to not be swapped out? Oops, I think I might have misinterpreted the meaning of MADV_WILLNEED. I think I

Current isolation best practices?

2013-01-08 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
Hello misc@, I'm researching locking things down, and I'm wondering what the current best practice is for isolating risky programs. It seems this community has traditionally shunned virtualization as a solution, and also called exclusively chrooting insufficient. Okay, sure. But what is better

Re: MacBook Pro

2013-03-19 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/19/13 2:23 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:33:12PM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Hi, I would like to know if anyone is using OpenBSD on MacBook pro (intel based) and how well the system works on it. Is there any hardware issue? Performance? It depends

Re: proposal for ports

2014-01-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
The MacPorts project does this well with their 'livecheck', and it is indeed a very valuable feature, especially for maintainers of many ports. I have mine on a cron job, and I get emails when new versions are released, and I know a few others who have done the same for their respective ports.

FAQ 11.1.2 outdated? (framebuffer support)

2014-02-15 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
Hello, 11.1.2 - Can I have any kind of graphics without X? Assuming you won't accept ASCII graphics, that requires some kind of framebuffer console driver. Some operating systems provide this, but there is not currently one for OpenBSD, nor is there much interest among

[patch] update FAQ for signify(1)

2014-03-14 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
Hello, From section 3.5: The OpenBSD project does not digitally sign releases. The above command only detects accidental damage, not malicious tampering. If the men in black suits are out to get you, they're going to get you. It seems the men in black /are/ out to get everyone

Re: [patch] update FAQ for signify(1)

2014-03-14 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/14/14 5:09 AM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: Hello, ... Anyway... we have signfiy now and the FAQ still says otherwise. Oh, I forgot these: tedu's backport http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signify-backport my osx port https://github.com/jpouellet/signify-osx

Re: OpenBSD email provider

2014-03-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/15/14 12:54 PM, Jean-Francois Simon jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for a secure mail provider, i fpossible using OpenBSD, also wondering if OpenBSD itself provides it for interested people. If anybody has informations thanks would be interesting to share.

Re: OpenBSD email provider

2014-03-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/17/14 3:25 PM, Jean-Francois Simon wrote: Just to mention, I'm looking for a more private ESP. As I know that OpenBSD conveys an idea of security, I tend to trust a provider relying on this OS. Not necessarily a safe assumption. I'm also using own server today, essentially, I have'nt

Re: ffs2

2014-03-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/17/14 10:19 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: OK, obviously I missed something. How do you resize ffs filesystems without a dump/restore step? -Adam http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=growfs

Re: ipsec.conf parsing

2014-03-19 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On 3/19/14 6:22 AM, Zé Loff wrote: As far as I can tell, if a commented line on ipsec.conf ends with \ then the following line will also be considered a comment (if the next line also ends with \ the commenting is propagated). For example #ike esp from A.A.A.A to C.C.C.C \ ike esp from

Re: w...@openbsd.org bounces

2014-03-30 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:39:10PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 13:27, Raf Czlonka wrote: Hi all, I just tried sending an email to www@ and I got a bounce: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvsm=139557902002995w=2 $ grep -rF w...@openbsd.org www | wc -l 2558 Perhaps

Re: taking a screenshot through cwm shortcut.

2014-03-31 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
Maybe it's because you commented half of it out? On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 07:52:52PM -0400, marst wrote: #!/bin/sh scrot -s '%Y-%m-%d_$wx$h.png' # -e 'mv $f ~/documents/shots' -e 'feh $f' ^^^ Another thing that looks like an issue is the two -e args. It doesn't

Re: w...@openbsd.org bounces

2014-03-31 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 05:15:36PM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: $ grep -rF w...@openbsd.org www | wc -l 2558 Perhaps those should be changed then? I'd send a patch, but I think it'd be silly since it'd just be a mechanical change, and a pretty huge diff. I was informed off

Re: w...@openbsd.org bounces

2014-03-31 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 03:15:43AM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 05:15:36PM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: $ grep -rF w...@openbsd.org www | wc -l 2558 Perhaps those should be changed then? I'd send a patch, but I think it'd be silly since it'd

Re: Install iwn driver Lenovo X1 Carbon

2014-04-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
That happens to me when I upgrade on a connection with one of those stupid captive web portal things. Is that the case for you by any chance? I can confirm on almost the exact same hardware that it does work no problem with a not-stupid internet connection. (At least as of a few days ago. I had

Re: Install iwn driver Lenovo X1 Carbon

2014-04-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:32:08AM +0200, Axel wrote: Today I will download the package from another machine and another Internet connection, and I will use another USB pen. Oh, are you installing the driver from a USB storage device because this is actually rather an internet bootstrapping

Re: issues with amd64 on Apple MacPro

2014-06-08 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
I've been using one (early 2008 model?) for several weeks now. Suspend works, hw.setperf works, radeondrm works for X, internal audio doesn't seem to work, but I can't say I've spent a long time trying to make it work. There are a few minor issues, like the console framebuffer doesn't take up

Re: running cvs update as root (www patch?)

2014-06-09 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 03:07:17PM -0700, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html shows the 'cvs update' command being run by root (# shell prompt) One example (the latest one added) in the Using CVS to ... section uses $, as do all the examples in the Example usages ...

Re: openbsd live-cd?

2014-06-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 03:47:14PM -0400, Brian McCafferty wrote: Install it to a usb stick. And then try to not get banned from the store you're trying the new hardware in for uploading malware (apparently that's what the dmesg scolling by looks like to the untrained eye :P), even if you got

Re: libmessage (New crazy sh*t)

2014-07-08 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
What you are trying is not new, but crazy and sh*t seem pretty spot on. Your description, not mine. There's even a wikipedia article dedicated to how dumb this is! From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database-as-IPC: In computer programming, Database-as-IPC is an anti-pattern where

INSTALL.macppc link moved

2014-07-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
Apple is annoying and likes to shuffle their documentation around every few years. Maybe it's worth linking to archive.org instead. Index: distrib/notes/macppc/prep === RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/notes/macppc/prep,v retrieving

Re: immutable-ish version control repo?

2014-07-17 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
It sounds like you're approaching this the wrong way. What property are you actually trying to attain? If you're giving people filesystem access then you're probably not worried about people changing the contents of whatever your repo has in its notion of the HEAD state. It sounds more like

Re: running multiple simultaneous X sessions as different users

2015-03-16 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 07:12:23PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: luke...@onemodel.org wrote: The goal: I'd like to run multiple simultaneous X sessions and switch among them with Ctrl-Alt-F8, Ctrl-Alt-F9, etc, each one as a different user (separation of privileges, like general browsing vs.

Re: The Memory Sinkhole - Unleashing an x86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege

2015-06-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:39:46PM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: And an intel microcode update: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24290 Oops, I read the date wrong on that page. Still though. And microsoft (yup) pushed an update for it: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb

Re: The Memory Sinkhole - Unleashing an x86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege

2015-06-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Ouellet
And an intel microcode update: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24290 And microsoft (yup) pushed an update for it: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/3064209 Waiting to get the new ucode through bios updates (which will realistically never come) sounds like a recipie for disaster.