Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread scarp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 David Green: Hello, I am an Ex 'low-level' programmer (assembler, C and C++) of many years back -- well, nothing amazing -- officially some ~13 years ago, due to a head injury. Then you should be able to figure it out yourself. You probably

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Nathan Suchy
Wow are you guys really going to argue over what operating system or version the guy uses? He just wants help getting Tor to work on his old operating system. Personally I think Tor should work on Windows 95+ Computers and should be kept light weight as possible... Also sorry to hear about your

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread David Green
Uh, thanks, I guess. I was only asking for pointers and advice, etc, and do much work myself, not to consume anyone else's precious time... I mean, realise they (or you) could be 'saving the world', or some such, by helping a bleeding-edge, essential OS. ;-) Red Hat or Centos and or Debian;

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread David Green
Cheers, Nathan -- some other attitudes can be somewhat bewildering. On 26 September 2013 07:58, Nathan Suchy theusernameiwantista...@gmail.comwrote: Wow are you guys really going to argue over what operating system or version the guy uses? He just wants help getting Tor to work on his old

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:32:39AM -0400, David Green wrote: Red Hat or Centos and or Debian; yes they do and have appealed, alas I have a perfectly good and secure OS X Tiger -- which I have no reason to upgrade... SCREECH Oops, I have wasted time defending myself before, so I will not.

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread David Green
Eugen, thanks for the info. Upgrading to Leopard (10.5) has always been an option for myself, but I invariably find, with minor work, upgrading is never required -- and yes, IMHO, I have never been insecure or threatened in any IT way. I remember as a programmer that using the latest OS or s/w

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:29:14AM -0400, David Green wrote: Upgrading to Leopard (10.5) has always been an option for myself, but I invariably find, with minor work, upgrading is never required -- and yes, IMHO, I have never been insecure or threatened in any IT way. I run the system

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:29:14 -0400 David Green dgrin...@gmail.com wrote: I imagine, like homebrew (mainly for PPC), I would like to eventually set-up a web-site, or sourceforge presence, for *Luddite* like myself ;) Back when I had an OS X 10.4 PPC machine, I had to compile everything

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Nathan Suchy
This thread is soo confusing with 3 different conversations :D Sent from my Android so do not expect a fast, long, or perfect response... On Sep 26, 2013 11:26 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:29:14AM -0400, David Green wrote: Upgrading to Leopard (10.5) has

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread David Green
I have an Intel and it is possible I shall have to compile the openssl. On 26 September 2013 11:48, Andrew Lewman and...@torproject.is wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:29:14 -0400 David Green dgrin...@gmail.com wrote: I imagine, like homebrew (mainly for PPC), I would like to eventually

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Leo Unglaub
Hey, On 2013-09-26 13:58, Nathan Suchy wrote: Wow are you guys really going to argue over what operating system or version the guy uses? He just wants help getting Tor to work on his old operating system. yes, we are argue about that. Because it is simply stupid to use outdated software. It

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:22:54 -0400 David Green dgrin...@gmail.com wrote: I have an Intel and it is possible I shall have to compile the openssl. Assume you're compiling everything. With unsupported OSes, you'll learn to love gcc and its quirks. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475

Re: [tor-talk] (no subject)

2013-09-26 Thread kjtrebor
Yall have been really informative thank you and ill look up more when I have time On Sep 25, 2013, at 6:59 PM, Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:17:20PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: This is true, but people will use what they can if they have

Re: [tor-talk] development interests

2013-09-26 Thread David Green
For all of 'you'; I shall appreciate 'security' and tor the more I use 'em and, as Mr Lewman says, the more I get the feel and love of GCC, etc. As I have said before, I innately have, and had, a draw towards Linux/BSD for over 15 years, but until proven (to me) otherwise, I think my 'quite'

Re: [tor-talk] Greypony.org - Need Help

2013-09-26 Thread Nathan Suchy
How about this: Please paste the following without the quotes into key.pgp or what: --Start PGP Key-- * 10 lines of random junk * Would that work? Sent from my Android so do not expect a fast, long, or perfect response... On Sep 23, 2013 6:51 PM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: