Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-29 Thread Rafael Almeida
The main problem I see here is the government incentivating the purshase of Microsoft product. It's kinda dumb paying the guy pay to a company that has nothing to do witht he whole thing as a punishment for your crimes. It would make sense if the government charged him for using some government

Text about openbsd's security technology

2007-03-23 Thread Rafael Almeida
I'm aware that OpenBSD's developers create new technology for making the exploiter's life harder. On the OpenBSD site I could find a list of some of those kinda features (following this paragraph). Yet, I could not find any article describing all those ideas. Does anyone know what would be

Re: Text about openbsd's security technology

2007-03-23 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 3/23/07, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look for theo's talk on http://www.openbsd.org/papers for a very good introduction. and beyond that, RTFS Yes, I've looked those, but most of them were slideshows, not real articles. I was looking for something more like this:

Re: Instant Messenger client

2007-05-31 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 5/30/07, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a good, easy-to-use client for Yahoo instant messenger in the ports tree. I do an internet radio show (definitely not OpenBSD topical) and I need one that an intern can use on my spare laptop to interface with listeners etc.

Re: The British

2007-06-01 Thread Rafael Almeida
what's happening with [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-27 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 6/27/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when competition is involved companies develop products as quickly as they can to keep up with the joneses. if your product(s) lack the bells and whistles the competition has, joey bagoconsumer will not buy your stuff b/c he's been

Following the patch branch

2007-03-06 Thread Rafael Almeida
Hello, I'm reading the documentation about the errata patches application on openbsd and I thought following the -stable branch would be the best way to go. After downloading the CVS repository of /usr/src and reading the openBSD FAQ I couldn't figure out a clean way of only upgrading the

Re: Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported

2007-03-16 Thread Rafael Almeida
Just as a note, when I first read the section 5.2 of the FAQ I was also a bit confused. The line Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported. made think that maybe following the -stable branch wasn't supported. But after doing more research I figured that following -stable

Re: No Blob without Puffy

2007-03-18 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 3/18/07, SW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I havent't told you I would write that and you haven't seen the unfinished flyer yet. You are assuming that I will tell lies, which I will not. I will tell people which Blobs are used in each BSD and that this is wrong imho. I'm not in a position to

Re: Symbols in a .so

2007-03-18 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 3/18/07, Woodchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know which symbols are defined in a shareable object library, say libfoo.so.1.0. I think readelf might be what you want.

Re: Have a OpenBSD store in Asia? Is it possible?

2007-03-18 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 3/18/07, Bibby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I live in China, Is it possible to have a OpenBSD store in Asia? China? Japan? Korean? or other coutries? OpenBSD site says there is one in Hong Kong: http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html#asia The brazillian store in the site doesn't seem to have

Re: No Blob without Puffy

2007-03-18 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 3/18/07, SW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5. OpenBSD thinks there should be no possibility whatsoever to use Blobs. FreeBSD thinks it's up to the user to decide what's best for him. And maybe that will include competition between Open Source BSD-licensed drivers and Blobs. You can use Nvidia

Re: Have a OpenBSD store in Asia? Is it possible?

2007-03-18 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 3/19/07, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.genesis.com.hk/ Uh, doesn't look like they're selling OpenBSD reallly... Nonetheless when I enter the site my account was created and I could access my website right away using my IP address 76.162.118.181. Unfortunately my site

Re: Does anyone know a good file manager for OpenBSD?

2007-03-20 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 3/21/07, Mark Shroyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But for what it's worth, I'd recommend the command line utility wget over anything. pkg_add wget and you're good to go. I second that. Wget is a great software! You can even use the mozilla cookies to keep the section of some site you're

The firmware matter

2008-10-11 Thread Rafael Almeida
Hello, From time to time I see people debating about blobs on kernels. I have some understanding of the issue, but it seems that everytime some issue comes out that I was not aware of. Not too recently I've seen a discussion regarding intel wireless device, people from linux seem to say it

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rafael Almeida
On Dec 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If OpenBSD could spin off the ports system (perhaps people could put it on the Pirate Bay), and break off connection with it, then it would cease to convey any message from OpenBSD to the users. Then I could recommend OpenBSD