Re: binpatch

2005-08-16 Thread Rico
It doesn't need to be updated, it still works great and will continue to do as long as the way OBSD is patched doesn't change. Gaby vanhegan wrote: On 16 Aug 2005, at 14:04, Rico wrote: tepatche is good. It doesn't look like it's been updated since 2003. Are there any more recent

CVSWeb

2005-09-10 Thread Rico
be setup differently. Please bear with me if I am doing something obviously wrong. Can someone point out how to get the guide working? Thanks. Rico.

Re: is there a way to block sshd trolling?

2005-09-28 Thread Rico
sshdtrolls persist file /root/pf/sshdhackers' I don't get any entries in the sshdhackers file and I don't get blocked from the system. I also use AllowUsers Would you mind explaining a bit more about your setup? Friendly Rico. Nick Ryan wrote: What you could also do is install swatch from ports

Re: is there a way to block sshd trolling?

2005-09-28 Thread Rico
Alexander Hall wrote: Rico wrote: I am using this 'table sshdtrolls persist file /root/pf/sshdhackers' I don't get any entries in the sshdhackers file and I don't get blocked from the system. A table modification is not automatically added to the file the table was once populated from

Re: is there a way to block sshd trolling?

2005-09-28 Thread Rico
and then to have Swatch make pf grap that file. That way each time there is an Illegal user the log file is extended with the IP and pf add's that IP to the block rule. I will try to work on this before working more on the missing block part :-) Thanks for your reply! Kindly Rico. Can you confirm

Re: is there a way to block sshd trolling?

2005-09-29 Thread Rico
echo $0 /root/swatchlog And if you only want the IP to be logged: exec echo $10 /root/swatchlog In case someone don't know: $10 means the tenth word in the line (which in authlog is the IP). Hope others might benefit. Cheers. Rico.

Printer setup

2005-09-30 Thread Rico
haven't been able to find anything usefull on google except this http://www.jakemsr.com/openbsd/foomatic.html, which wasn't what I had in mind. Where to go from here? I have no prior experience with lp(d) but have setup cupsd on other nix's before. Friendly, Rico.

Re: Java with mozilla-firefox

2005-09-30 Thread Rico
Hi Paulo Manoel Mafra wrote: Try using this: /etc/login.conf default:\ :datasize-max=512M:\ :datasize-cur=384M:\ :stacksize-cur=8M:\ I tried that but it didn't change anything, firefox is still crashing. Cheers, Rico.

Re: Java with mozilla-firefox

2005-09-30 Thread Rico
Hi steven mestdagh wrote: yes, your resource limits are probably not high enough. change them with 'ulimit -d' or something similar. my java_vm here is using about 200M of memory, which is higher than the default limit in 3.7. It is actually set to unlimited. Cheers, Rico.

Re: Printer setup

2005-09-30 Thread Rico
for the offer, I got the right PPD file from linuxprinting.org Cheers, Rico

Re: Java with mozilla-firefox

2005-09-30 Thread Rico
It doesn't drop a .core file though. Is this information enough? Friendly, Rico.

Re: Java with mozilla-firefox

2005-10-02 Thread Rico
Hi pirge and thanks! pirge wrote: set ulimit before running firefox: $ ulimit -d 262144 $ firefox Works!

Re: Kprinter in KDE fails

2005-10-03 Thread Rico
need to install it before you can switch kprinter to cups. It is clear from the above that he installed CUPS :-) He can print from CUPS. I actually face the same problem. Cheers, Rico.

Re: OpenBSD and KDE printing

2005-10-05 Thread Rico
printing from KDE with CUPS always seems to be fairly easy. Best regards, Rico.

An error on the website

2005-10-11 Thread Rico
Hi, There seems to be an error on the website: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/faq.html It is not possible to load the gzip'd tar of 3.5 up until current. Friendly, Rico

Re: Theo, I am truely sorry. You misunderstood me.

2005-10-20 Thread Rico
with this anyway! You have apologized and you are desperate, but really - I think you kindda blew it. Best regards, Rico Sophie L wrote: Hi Theo, Straight up, I'm very sorry. It was not my intention to be rude and I'm not a rude person. All I am is desperate to be able to use OpenBSD again

SSH with more features

2005-10-20 Thread Rico
a SCPOnlyUsers. 2. Making it possible to jail some of the SCP only users with another option like SCPJailedUsers. I am not a developer and I am just asking about if this maybe is a bad idea. Best regards, Rico

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2005-10-23 Thread Rico
. Everything works perfect on my machine. I have done some testing with previous written documentation in OpenOffice.org 1.5 and everything has been working perfectly. Best regards, Rico

Problem installing nmap from packages

2005-10-26 Thread Rico
Hi, I tried installing nmap and got some dependency problems. I am running snapshots. pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/nmap-3.93.tgz Can't install ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/i386/nmap-3.93.tgz: lib not found pcap.3.1 Even by

Re: Reboot and halt problem

2005-07-14 Thread Rico
Never mind, I found out. fsck -y / Rico. Hi, I have just updated some of our obsd servers at our datacenter the other day. One of them was via the upgrade procedure on the CD. From 3.6 to 3.7. Now each time I issue the reboot command or the halt command, the machine reboots and then gives

Re: Kernel Panic in 3.7

2005-07-18 Thread Rico
Bruno Delbono wrote: +++ Rico [Mon Jul 18, 2005 at 05:31:59PM +0200]: You should not run OpenBSD under VMWare. What makes you say that? I did explain this.

Re: Kernel Panic in 3.7

2005-07-18 Thread Rico
Bruno Delbono wrote: +++ Rico [Mon Jul 18, 2005 at 06:07:31PM +0200]: Bruno Delbono wrote: +++ Rico [Mon Jul 18, 2005 at 05:31:59PM +0200]: You should not run OpenBSD under VMWare. What makes you say that? I did explain this. Well then looking at what your wrote initially

[Re: FTPS recommendations?]

2005-08-01 Thread Rico
be found here http://www.sublimation.org/scponly/ Kind regards, Rico

Re: Xwindows Security Hole in OpenBSD 3.8

2005-12-24 Thread Rico
What kind of post is this? Rico Dave Feustel wrote: I hate to send this Christmas present to misc, but there is definitely a security hole in Xwindows which permits exploits to be committed at least with user permissions, if not root permissions. Since the problem appears to be in Xwindows

htpasswd

2005-12-25 Thread Rico
: htpasswd -c .passwd test I have looked in the man page and I can't find any changes from 3.7 to 3.8. I have also looked on the changes page for 3.8. Is it me overlooking anything? Best regards, Rico

Re: htpasswd

2005-12-25 Thread Rico
Thanks Simon! Simon Morgan wrote: On 25/12/05, Rico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am managing some sites which has some parts password protected by a simple .htaccess file. On obsd 3.7 I have always used the htpasswd tool to generate the password files. Today I had to update a site, and I used

Accent with Quanta+ from kdewebdev

2005-12-25 Thread Rico
Hi, I can't get the automatic accent part working in quanta+ from kdewebdev. I am using iso8859-1 danish language. Is there anything extra which perhaps needs to be installed in order for this to work? Best regards, Rico

Static IP fallback

2006-01-16 Thread Rico
Hi, Is it possible to somehow setup dhclient to fallback to some predefined static IP in case a dhcp server is down? I am thinking about specifying something with the default attribute. Or can this only be done by some kind of script? Best regards, Rico

[Fwd: Re: Static IP fallback]

2006-01-16 Thread Rico
Hi, Thanks! Don't know why I missed that. It is possible to define one or more fixed leases in the client configuration file.. how exactly is this setup? Best regards, Rico On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:05:55PM +0100, Rico wrote: Hi, Is it possible to somehow setup dhclient to fallback

Re: [Fwd: Re: Static IP fallback]

2006-01-16 Thread Rico
From your question, I get the impression that you haven't yet read that section. Please do so first, before asking questions. If you read the documentation (and it shows from the question you ask), people are usually more than happy to help. Your impression is wrong.

Re: [Fwd: Re: Static IP fallback]

2006-01-16 Thread Rico
Ok, thanks Jaochim! Gonna experiment a bit on that. Joachim Schipper wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 05:38:53PM +0100, Rico wrote: Hi, Thanks! Don't know why I missed that. It is possible to define one or more fixed leases in the client configuration file.. how exactly is this setup? I'm

Converting from WMA to MP3

2006-05-04 Thread Rico
Hi Is there some easy way to convert WMA files to MP3 on obsd? I have looked at SOX but it doesn't support WMA. Best regards, Rico

Re: Converting from WMA to MP3

2006-05-04 Thread Rico
Thanks you very much. Trying to do so I get the following: Opening audio decoder: [dmo] Win32/DMO decoders install_fs: Function not implemented Couldn't install fs segment, expect segfault Did you reconfigure the kernel with options USER_LDT? What exactly does this mean? Best regards, Rico

Re: Converting from WMA to MP3

2006-05-05 Thread Rico
] On Behalf Of Rico Sent: Friday, 5 May 2006 2:27 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Converting from WMA to MP3 Hi Is there some easy way to convert WMA files to MP3 on obsd? I have looked at SOX but it doesn't support WMA. Best regards, Rico .

Mic recording

2006-05-07 Thread Rico
Hi Anyone who can recommend a good and easy to use tool for recording audio (mic) from the packages? It doesn't need to have any gui but build in compression like MP3 is preferable. I know there are a couple of different tools but what are the best ones? Best and kind regards, Rico.

Re: Mic recording

2006-05-08 Thread Rico
Thank you all for the nice suggestions! Jacob Meuser wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:24:24AM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:40:30AM +0200, Rico wrote: Hi Anyone who can recommend a good and easy to use tool for recording audio (mic) from the packages

Firefox keeps crashing

2006-05-11 Thread Rico
problems on the same machine. Best and kind regards. Rico.

Re: Firefox keeps crashing

2006-05-12 Thread Rico
FWIW, I guess KDE is more than a bit resource-happy too; does the problem persist when using a simple window manager (fvwm, for instance)? I have just, this morning, tested some of the other window managers. The problem with firefox persists. Regarding KDE 3.5.1, I guess it is even more

Re: Firefox keeps crashing

2006-05-12 Thread Rico
FWIW, I guess KDE is more than a bit resource-happy too; does the problem persist when using a simple window manager (fvwm, for instance)? I use Firefox under fluxbox under 3.9 with great succes. Cannot remember it crashing. Konqueror runs fine aswell, though I use it much less. Actually,

Re: Firefox keeps crashing

2006-05-12 Thread Rico
on the test with many tabs and so on - it is based upon Mozilla as well. We did test the Mozilla browser from the mozilla package, and got the same crashes as with firefox. Rico wrote: FWIW, I guess KDE is more than a bit resource-happy too; does the problem persist when using a simple window

Applying a patch for ghostscript

2006-05-12 Thread Rico
changed from 7 to 8. How exactly do I use this diff with succes if possible? Best and kind regards! Rico. Index: Makefile === RCS file: /home/cvs/OpenBSD/ports/print/ghostscript/gnu/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.42 diff -u -r1.42

Prefered browser

2006-05-15 Thread Rico
Hi This is not a OpenBSD specific question, but I am going to ask anyway due to the high and professional experience on this list. What is a good or the good browser, if any, from a security, speed and standard compliance point of view? Both GUI based and otherwise. Best regards, Rico.

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-25 Thread Rico
? Doing what? On what platform? On what hardware? If you where serious about this question and really wanted to know and understand the issue, educational or otherwise, you would do the tests you need to do, to answer your question. Best and kind regards, Rico.

The Unix Haters Handbook

2006-05-31 Thread Rico
everybody has tried that mistake once. Anyway, wanted to share my discovery. I know many knows this book, but perhaps many also don't. Best and kind regards, Rico

A joke

2006-06-01 Thread Rico
(Hello World!); string.print(); } Manager: George, I need a program to output the string Hello World! Hilarious! Best and kind regards, Rico

Binary kernel updates

2007-04-10 Thread Rico Secada
to upgrade including kernel and basesystem upgrades. OpenBSD has really made a cool solution with pkg_add -u, but why not kernel and basesystem binary updates as well? Best and kind regards. Rico

Re: Binary kernel updates

2007-04-10 Thread Rico Secada
in the pipes somewhere, that seems to happen with misc@ alot. Rico probably figured it was lost and so he sent another which is fairly reasonable. Thank you Jeremy! That was exactly what happened :-) I thought my ISP had some problems with his SMTP server. Jeremy On 10-Apr-07, at 12:44

Re: Binary kernel updates

2007-04-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:29:17 -0700 Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am exceedingly sorry. I realize now that it was not Rico's fault. My venom was uncalled for... Again, sorry Rico, et al... Apology accepted :-) back to the shadows... On 4/10/07, Jeremy Huiskamp [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-10 Thread Rico Secada
to them being easy to upgrade including kernel and basesystem upgrades. OpenBSD has really made a cool solution with pkg_add -u, but why not kernel and basesystem binary updates as well? Best and kind regards. Rico

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-13 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:16:41 -0400 Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to put the burning on anyone here, but if that was going to be done, I would love to be sure it is done properly, meaning with some guidance of devs to follow the same standard as the project if possible. Any

AFS Server on OpenBSD

2007-04-16 Thread Rico Secada
Hi, I have been trying to find some information on setting up a AFS server on OpenBSD, is it even possible? Rico.

Distributed File System

2007-04-16 Thread Rico Secada
thinking about using AFS as posted before. Also perhaps, but not necessary, support for Windows could be needed in the long run. What are you guys using and how is it setup? Best and kind regards! Rico.

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
), retrying wd0: soft error (corrected) cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x0 SENSE KEY: Not Ready ASC/ASCQ: Medium Not Present # Han -- Best and kind regards Rico Secada

Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
risk? Best regards Rico [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:05:51 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi I need some comments from you guys on using sshfs as a solution at work. I need to make some of our NFS servers available for employees

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:43:53 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:48:46AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:05:51 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:33:10 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:48:46AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:05:51 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-24 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:22:05 -0700 Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/23/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Messages should look like: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim

SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-26 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Before I testrun this http://paradigma.pt/~gngs/sshjail/ does anyone already know if this patch would work with OpenSSH on OpenBSD 3.9? Best regards Rico

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:34:52 -0500 Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the point again? What part didn't you understand? On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:13:12AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi Before I testrun this http://paradigma.pt/~gngs/sshjail/ does anyone already know

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:30:03 -0700 Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/27/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:34:52 -0500 Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the point again? What part didn't you understand? why are you asking

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
with that attitude. Try to understand the subject first. The guy who made the patch are not using OpenBSD and hasn't done any testing on OpenBSD hence no benefit. On 4/27/07, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:17:16PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:15:02 -0400 stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marco Peereboom Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:28 PM To: Rico Secada Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: SSHJail patch

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:14:32 -0500 Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:08:31PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:27:58 -0500 Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:17:16PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:38:48 +0200 Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rico Secada wrote: Hi Before I testrun this http://paradigma.pt/~gngs/sshjail/ does anyone already know if this patch would work with OpenSSH on OpenBSD 3.9? Best regards Rico Honestly, you

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-28 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:35:06 +0100 mal content [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/04/07, Maurice Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 23:45:51 +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote: Some progress was made in the last couple of days. First results are up at

Gluster

2007-05-01 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Anyone with experience in setting up and using Gluster from GNU on OpenBSD? Rico

Re: Chrooting users the right way

2007-05-13 Thread Rico Secada
. I have tried to find articles on this, but haven't been succesfull. Does anyone know of a good tutorial on how to do this on OpenBSD? Best and kind regards. Rico Secada.

About BSD Certification

2007-06-08 Thread Rico Secada
that they focus on the 4 different BSD's.. you could have someone being an expert in OpenBSD yet he has never used DragonflyBSD, would this make him less interesting to hire for a BSD specific job? Best regards Rico

Re: About BSD Certification

2007-06-08 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:28:08 +0200 Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rico Secada wrote: What do you think of The BSD Certification Group at bsdcertification.org? It is as useless as MSCE and all the other vendor certificates. I would even go so far to claim it's a lot worse than

Re: facts about OpenBSD

2008-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:33:57 -0600 Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikns Siankin wrote: I see people keep repeating nonsense like this instead of talking about topic. At least he can read. And think. Leave the troll alone, he wants someone to play with, and he got that.

Re: facts about OpenBSD (FOOOLS)

2008-01-14 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:53:35 -0800 johan beisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bitching and whining get you nothing. When will you people stop responding to whiners like this!? He's bitching and your just bitching back. Leave the ignorant fool alone, and he will stop barking up your three! It's not

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:17:54 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:11:53PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 03:42:38 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:41:18 +1300 Joel Wiramu Pauling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but to me sounds like your making a non-issue into a mole hill. Even the most limited of hardware can run decent browsers. Why you are insisting on using your access box, when you have another machine is beyond

Setting up a HA server with limited resources

2008-03-22 Thread Rico Secada
advice on how to implement such a setup? Best regards. Rico.

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:45:14 +0200 Jernej Makovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please just ignore this post! As I said in my first post Now with this post I don`t want to start any wars. I know that nothing is bullet proof and so on but as a wannabe OBSD user I`m just interested in if this

NFSd problem

2006-06-29 Thread Rico Secada
nfsserver savecore: no core dump What could be wrong here? Best and kind regards, Rico

Fw: NFSd problem - solved!

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
Don't respond to this mail. Problem got solved, a powercut and a toasted exports file. On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:44:51 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am having problems with one of our NFS servers at our datacenter. I have just set it up. I have edited /etc/rc.conf

Encrypting files

2006-07-01 Thread Rico Secada
to encrypt it? Please bear with me if these questions are ignorent. Best regards, Rico

Encrypting e-mails

2006-07-10 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I have been looking into encrypting my e-mails and was thinking about GPG together with Sylpheed, since I am using Sylpheed. But I am wondering is there another and stronger or better way than GPG. Any recommendations? Best and kind regards, Rico

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Rico Secada
spelling check via ISpell. Best and kind regards, Rico Thanks, Mackan

Something like Plesk for OpenBSD

2006-07-18 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I would like recommendations on solutions like Plesk for OpenBSD. The main fokus is to make it easy for people (clients) to log on to OpenBSD servers and administer their webhotels, change FTP password and so on. What are people, if any, on the list using? Best and kind regards! Rico

Why ksh?

2006-07-20 Thread Rico Secada
like to understand both the technical reason and the more general one - if posible someone knows and has the time to answer. Best and kind regards Rico

OpenBSD's own compiler

2006-07-30 Thread Rico Secada
-list. The best and kind reagards. Rico

Re: Time for OBSD everywhere?

2008-05-16 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 16 May 2008 22:35:00 +0200 chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know at time it was said that OpenBSD is not for everything, but so far, I still haven't find anything that I need that OpenBSD can't shine doing. I can almost second that except for the few cases in which we really need to

Re: Time for OBSD everywhere?

2008-05-16 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:48:47 -0400 Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008 22:35:00 +0200 chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know at time it was said that OpenBSD is not for everything, but so far, I still haven't find anything that I need

Re: 202 days Uptime in OpenBSD 3.6

2007-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:47:38 -0800 Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/07, Francisco Valladolid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 202 days using OpenBSD 3.6 as router/firewall/ PPPOE. I want to share this screenshot. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/353353577_e8e875083d_o.jpg

A little about assembly language

2007-02-08 Thread Rico Secada
appreciate any recommendations. Best and kind regards, Rico.

About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Rico Secada
system, they all include some non-free programs. And as a result I can't recommend any of them. As I have understood, this isn't true about OpenBSD, or am I wrong? Rico.

Lets wrap up the Richard/non-free discussion in a kind manner

2007-12-12 Thread Rico Secada
that the ports tree contains non-free software. It does not. It is just a scaffold of Makefiles containing URLs, and an occasional patch here or there. Lets wrap this up in a nice manner. Best and kind regards. Rico Secada.

Support for Brother HL1430

2007-12-12 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I looked at the http://openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware, but ofcourse it doesn't say anything about printers :-) Does the OpenBSD 4.2 package of ghostscript support Brother HL1430? Is it possible to get this printer running without having to patch ghostscript? Best regards. Rico.

Working with Docbook on OpenBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. Are there any tools that can be installed using packages or ports for converting docbook xml files into PDF? Normally I would use FOP, but I would pref. not having to install that from source. Best regards. Rico.

Re: Working with Docbook on OpenBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:21:02 +0100 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never mind! I found htmldoc which converts HTML into PDF very nicely. So Docbook - HTML -PDF. It does the job and without Java like FOP needs! Hi. Are there any tools that can be installed using packages or ports

Re: Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-14 Thread Rico Secada
I see you are being your usual friendly self ;-}. Yes, and you are being the usual slimy hypocritical asshole. I really fail to see, how a response like this serves OpenBSD or any other good purpose at all! If Richard Stallman is a hypocrite his answers and statements will show this by

Theo vs. Richard - avoiding the facts!

2007-12-15 Thread Rico Secada
regards. Rico Secada.

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Rico Secada
, but then it has its own problems. The language is bloated with functions, it is constantly changing making backwards compatibility difficult, and really.. Its just C and then some more crap. You cannot beautify what is born ugly. Rico Secada.

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:08:05 +0100 Erik Wikstrvm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not very familiar with Ada so I do not know if it allows for the same kinds of low-level programming (which is necessary when writing an OS or code that interacts with hardware) that C does. It does. Again, I do

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:04:05 +0530 Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. If security is a major concern, or perhaps The Main Concern, why not use Ada? I specifically mention Ada since one of the most security demanding industries are building aircrafts and they use Ada. I

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:06:39 -0600 David Higgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 22, 2007 5:53 PM, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that C is the hackers tool while Ada is the tool of the engineer. I think it is mostly because of tradition. Your understanding

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:11:50 +1100 Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used and taught Ada, for what that's worth. I also looked at Ada for writing OS kernel code, but the quality of the compilers forced me back to the C family. What compilers? Question for the proponents of

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