Re: RAIDframe - screech, smash.

2009-04-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
. You were 21 days too late. -- J.C. Roberts

AHCI License?

2009-04-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
Party's grant of a reciprocal license to Intel and Contributor, as evidenced by each such Contributing Party's execution of an Identical Form of Agreement. [/quote] -- J.C. Roberts

Re: -stable 4.4 - a bunch of config problems

2009-04-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
don't have things configured right. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: ACPI on VIA iDot 3500

2009-04-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
is available in -current 4.5 snapshots, but you're only running 4.4. If you want to test out the the new heuristics stuff, you'll need to grab the latest snapshot from ftp and install it. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: -stable 4.4 - a bunch of config problems

2009-04-13 Thread J.C. Roberts
/configured. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: ssh tunnel tun device forwarding without root

2009-04-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
is a pointer to executable code in kernel space, you'll appropriately fearful and cautious about messing with them. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: [semi-OT] Can anyone recommend an OpenBSD-compatible colour laser printer?

2009-04-11 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:37:51 +0200 ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: I want to thank everybody again for the interest and good information regarding this admittedly semi-OT topic. :) Ropers, We're *way* off-topic. Not only are we talking about home brew electronics, but such devices are

Re: ifconfig API

2009-04-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
your chosen language (sh, perl, python, ...), and remember to read the new man page and test your code on each new release. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
into the device housing (think blade server), so it is completely cut off from what you think of as normal network traffic. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
). Sure all this is done in softraid today. See the disabled AOE code as an example. I read your AoE code once briefly, and drooled on myself, but once I get through the other docs (and finish beating up the required people to get them released), I'll give the AoE code another read. -- J.C

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
'^[[G'=down-history If you spend enough time digging through termcap/terminfo you'll probably figure out the correct magic for PgUp and PgDn. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: [semi-OT] Can anyone recommend an OpenBSD-compatible colour laser printer?

2009-04-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
for is whether or not the printer has a paper path for card stock (I'm not sure what it's called elsewhere in the world, but card stock is basically *very* thick paper like cardboard). -- J.C. Roberts

Re: [semi-OT] Can anyone recommend an OpenBSD-compatible colour laser printer?

2009-04-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
be *real* friendly since it will save them wasted materials, and of course, they just never know where the little business you offer may lead in the future. -- J.C. Roberts

Stupid Ideas - softraid and ExpEther

2009-04-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
-- J.C. Roberts

Re: [semi-OT] Can anyone recommend an OpenBSD-compatible colour laser printer?

2009-04-06 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 01:57:20 +0200 ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/6 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org: If the real reason for buying a laser printer is PCB work, then there are some laser printers with a perfectly straight card-stock paper path where you can actually run

Re: dvd-rw as user?

2009-04-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
? --You're not alone, and it happens to everyone. Yesterday I did not know what a WIP was, and sthen@ really did kindly drop-kick me towards my new favorite tool, `pkg_add wtf` -- J.C. Roberts

Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-04-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
one option if you want to do software RAID and you need to make your own decision on which implementation best fits your particular needs. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
wide coverage testing on a long term basis for an always on-going fdisk project. I would consider doing it once, but not forever. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: dvd-rw as user?

2009-04-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:24:16 -0400 Nick Guenther kou...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM, J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 04:46:10 + Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 07:13:33PM -0700, OpenBSD wrote

Re: Donations (was, sadly, European orders)

2009-04-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
is a completely different matter. You do not owe anything to anyone, particularly about your personal life, so please don't let the fools and liars goad you into giving more than you already give. Kind Regards, J.C. Roberts

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
Thoughts? -- J.C. Roberts

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
of the best traits from both parents. Can you imagine trying to access RAM with c/h/s or LBA ? I didn't think so. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: dvd-rw as user?

2009-04-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
at user login and logout. See man fbtab for details. This exact situation of an unprivileged local user needing access to devices is the reason why fbtab exists. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 16:32:23 +0200 frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: it wouldn't be the pc industry if it didn't go on with such a basic data structure going undocumented, without a standard since its conception. So True! --Pathetic, but true none the less. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: keeping the system updated

2009-04-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
production servers. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-03-30 Thread J.C. Roberts
-n wd2 -- J.C. Roberts

Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0

2009-03-30 Thread J.C. Roberts
and initializing wd0 again and create the raid, in a very cut way to explain it Chris -Original Message- From: J.C. Roberts [mailto:list-...@designtools.org] Sent: 30 March 2009 13:16 To: Chris Harries Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: raidctl -vF component0 raid0 On Mon

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
an unsupported and whimsical idea. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Ideas for Getting MATLAB/Mathematica to utilize sparc64 ram that runs openbsd

2009-03-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
on one, so I could be *way* wrong. If you take a quick look at your /etc/sysctl.conf on your sparc64 box, you should see if emulation of svr4 is even possible. I'm not sure if it is. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Install freezes on macppc

2009-03-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:16:00 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Barowy m...@barowy.net wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, J.C. Roberts wrote: Any chance you know the brand name of the upgraded processor? It's a FastMac. 1.2 GHz G4. I _think_ the model # is APP-5582. FastMac seems to have removed most

Re: Overlay missing with intel(4)

2009-03-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
the planned new changes have been completely committed. Even the big changes get rolled in slowly and carefully, but none the less, twice a year, the -current tree is in a state of heavy flux. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Install freezes on macppc

2009-03-24 Thread J.C. Roberts
) components on production boards, they just created an add-in card (like the gPort) to enable the serial interface. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: might be slightly OT: `probability in PF'

2009-03-24 Thread J.C. Roberts
, there is a remote chance you'll either inject no errors at all, or conversely, only inject errors. It's not a good chance, but it's still a chance, so you really don't know what you're testing, and worse, there's no way to repeat your results. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: graphic card support

2009-03-24 Thread J.C. Roberts
, by my current hunch is it has to do with the rescaling the new intel(4) driver does when faced with fixed resolution LCD's (discovered via DDC2). -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Overlay missing with intel(4)

2009-03-24 Thread J.C. Roberts
full-screen, something the previous driver (i810(4)) could never do. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: PF Seems To Reload Its Default Rules Unexpectedly

2009-03-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:16:32 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org [2009-03-10 02:03]: The smart answer for an ISP is moving to IPv6 that is about the least smart thing anybody could do. Hi Henning, If everyone continues to avoid IPv6

Re: Install freezes on macppc

2009-03-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
. On the other hand, if NetBSD works, then we know we have a issue in OpenBSD (driver?, geometry?, flux-capacitor?, ...). -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Install freezes on macppc

2009-03-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
? false setenv output-device ttya setenv input-device ttya reset-all If you need to go back to the original values (i.e. get your apple keyboard and display working again), just run `printenv` to see what they were (usually display and kbd). -- J.C. Roberts

Re: PF Seems To Reload Its Default Rules Unexpectedly

2009-03-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
that problem despite the claims it would either). Thank you Henning. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Install freezes on macppc

2009-03-20 Thread J.C. Roberts
a working ELF loader, it's at least version 3.0 or better. If your system has OpenFirmware version 3.0 you need to be very careful when messing with the firmware settings. Due a bug in these systems, it is possible to actually over-write the firmware itself, resulting in a serious mess. -- J.C

Re: Xorg on ASRock i945GZ problem

2009-03-19 Thread J.C. Roberts
details can be found in the intel(4) man page. By shutting off DCC, and thereby preventing the driver from learning anything about the attached display, you've prevented the driver from doing this (uncontrolled) rescaling nonsense. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: creating release and kernels

2009-03-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
) on most modern x86 hardware. If you're using *really* old x86 hardware, you might hit this problem. Typically, if you keep your root partition to the 512MB suggested in the FAQ, you should be fine. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Ramifications of blocking SYN+FIN TCP packets

2009-03-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
it up with them. Call me overly pragmatic, but if something in a standard is not providing valuable use (i.e. reward) and poses *any* type of risk or cost (including the risk and cost of wasting my time filing and maintaining some appeal), then the answer is painfully simple. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Ramifications of blocking SYN+FIN TCP packets

2009-03-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:51:40 -0400 Marcus Watts m...@umich.edu wrote: J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org writes: ... I know SYN+FIN is a valid packet according to RFC 793 and 1644 (T/TCP), but the more important question is, what are the valuable *uses* for SYN+FIN packets

Re: Ramifications of blocking SYN+FIN TCP packets

2009-03-12 Thread J.C. Roberts
have done. Let's just say I've got a unique position where the PCI considers the risks and costs of me occasionally bitching to be insignificant compared to the rewards and benefits I provide to them. Then again, I might be pushing my luck. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: PF Seems To Reload Its Default Rules Unexpectedly

2009-03-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 19:06:10 -0700 Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/9 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org: On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 09:07:51 -0700 Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/9 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org: I doubt your ISP only has

Re: rack mounted intro server lab

2009-03-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
look over it some more. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Can someone please suggest a replacement for xterm for me?

2009-03-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
some new gtk/qt based apps (such as firefox) use PRIMARY/CLIPBOARD buffers, while the older ones use cutbuffer. this little utility keeps clipboard and cutbuffer in sync, making it able to select/paste data from xterm-firefox!11 ok sthen@ -- J.C. Roberts

Re: PF Seems To Reload Its Default Rules Unexpectedly

2009-03-09 Thread J.C. Roberts
provider using dynamic addressing (and trying to prevent you from having a particular IP for too long). If I'm right, then your problem is that pf is holding on to the old rules for your old IP address even though your IP had changed. In other words, you have a configuration error. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: PF Seems To Reload Its Default Rules Unexpectedly

2009-03-09 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 09:07:51 -0700 Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/9 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org: On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:01:57 -0700 Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: I have pf running on my firewall box and I'm experiencing some strange

Re: Kernel Panic on 6th March i386 build

2009-03-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
the exact changes you made to enable the non-default feature. When tracking down bugs, the more consistent things are, the easier it is to replicate, find, and fix the problem. This is why using *custom* kernels are strongly discouraged, and our standard GENERIC kernel is strongly encouraged. -- J.C

Re: Gnash, mplayer, Firefox losing its mind in current 28 Feb

2009-03-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
(without any plugins) in firefox 2.X on OBSD 4.4, but I was never able to repeat it... possibly because I created my own updated 2.X port. If you are running 4.4-STABLE as your dmesg suggests, I have a back-port/update of Firefox 2.0.0.20 that might just fix the issue. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: 4.5-beta - x61s - headphones silent and no way to get the music loud :)

2009-03-05 Thread J.C. Roberts
Take a look at the output of mixerctl(1) and it's output will show the correct names. Also check out the mixerctl.conf(5) man page for further reading. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Go order your 4.5 CD

2009-03-05 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:47:05 -0500 Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: The new puffy looks nice too. Long Live The MCP! ummm... oh wait()! -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Go order your 4.5 CD

2009-03-05 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:19:57 -0500 Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: J.C. Roberts wrote: On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:47:05 -0500 Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: The new puffy looks nice too. Long Live The MCP! ummm... oh wait()! I hope you didn't intent

Re: 3Qs, including How insane to have /var mount with softraid discipline raid 1 ?

2009-03-04 Thread J.C. Roberts
and needs to be reminded often to get off his lazy slack bum butt. Maybe we could motivate him by asking for his autograph? -- J.C. Roberts

Re: disk perfomance issues with Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 1064R and mfi driver

2009-03-04 Thread J.C. Roberts
did succeed in back-porting all the changes to 4.2, you'd still be running your own custom FrankenSource monster, and once again, no one would realistically be able to help you with it. It's a whole lot easier to just upgrade. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: -current cwm toggle full-screen

2009-03-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
no indication that the combintions of keys should have changed. Any help will be appreciated. uhm, which application? With the 2009.02.28/27 i386 snapshot I am *unable* to reproduce the bug with xterm, gvim or mplayer (playing). -- J.C. Roberts

4.5 beta - Intel 845G work around

2009-03-02 Thread J.C. Roberts
This is mostly for the sake of the archives, namely people searching for an answer after the release. The Intel 845G chipset, and possibly other early Intel chipsets, do not play very well with the new intel(4) driver. Version 2.4.3 is currently in the xenocara tree, but testing is being done on

Re: nv driver and 4.5 beta

2009-03-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
in pre-7.0 I remember using a simple driver called vesa in my xorg.conf Device section. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vesaapropos=0sektion=0manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386format=html -- J.C. Roberts

dm...@openbsd.org Question

2009-03-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
-- J.C. Roberts

Re: intel 845g video and 4.5beta

2009-02-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
to guess proper settings for various types of displays. Some of the details are in the intel(4) man page. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: a port of mullender.c to OpenBSD/vax/i386

2009-02-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICS#History regards, --ropers I was reading the following this morning: http://openbsd.org/vax-simh.html It looks like a lot of fun. When I get out of intel(4) driver hell, I'm going to give it a try. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: xenocara - autoconf magic incantation?

2009-02-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:16:10 +0100 Matthieu Herrb mhe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:20 PM, J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: I'm testing out the v2.6.1 intel(4) driver requested here: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=123307709522306w=2 In my Xorg.0.log I'm

Re: -CURRENT intel(4) problem

2009-02-25 Thread J.C. Roberts
from tech@, while trying to learn about remote debugging X. It will take me a while to test everything, document the bugs, and get familiar with the code. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: 4.5 audio aucat autoconfig

2009-02-24 Thread J.C. Roberts
did for Jake (posted in thread) where aucat was avoided completely, I think he's onto something thinking it's a driver issue. -- J.C. Roberts

xenocara - autoconf magic incantation?

2009-02-24 Thread J.C. Roberts
? -- J.C. Roberts

4.5 audio aucat autoconfig

2009-02-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
detached uvideo0 at uhub0 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0 Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 rev 2.00/0.08 addr 2 video0 at uvideo0 uaudio0 at uhub0 port 5 configuration 1 interface 2 Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 rev 2.00/0.08 addr 2 uaudio0: audio rev 1.00, 2 mixer controls audio1 at uaudio0 -- J.C

Re: -CURRENT intel(4) problem

2009-02-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:35:58 +0100 Matthieu Herrb mhe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:56 AM, J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: Is there anything else I could do to help fix this instability bug? Fill a bug to bugs.freedesktop.org (product Xorg) with as many

Re: 4.5 audio aucat autoconfig

2009-02-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:52:18 + Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:10:07AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: My build of -current is a few days old. I'm having problems recording with aucat on a particular device. The system has an integrated Intel

Re: 4.5 audio aucat autoconfig

2009-02-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
to 44100Hz, but the 4.5-current aucat is not resampling the input at all during recording? -- J.C. Roberts

Re: -CURRENT intel(4) problem

2009-02-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
on the new intel(4) driver, I've got this bad feeling that nobody cared to test it on the older chipsets... i.e. they are not getting paid to care about legacy support. Would this be a correct assessment? -- J.C. Roberts

Re: 4.5 audio aucat autoconfig

2009-02-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
devices leaves a lot to be desired, and my mind reading skills are even worse. :-) Could you give me the exact commands you want to see run? -- J.C. Roberts

Re: 4.5 audio aucat autoconfig

2009-02-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
://www.designtools.org/OpenBSD/test-info45.txt The result on 44 is it plays correctly. The result on 45 is it plays too fast, and has distortion. On the bright side, this new plays too fast feature might get me a part in the next chipmunks movie. :-) -- J.C. Roberts

Re: -CURRENT intel(4) problem

2009-02-22 Thread J.C. Roberts
, but exiting X and/or restarting X typically results in either a screwed up text mode, or a failed/incomplete start of X. Is there anything else I could do to help fix this instability bug? -- J.C. Roberts

-CURRENT intel(4) problem

2009-02-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
/OpenBSD/Xorg.0.log-APT128 kind regards, J.C. Roberts

Re: Survey on the usage of IPv6

2009-02-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
. Many thanks, Marc Claudio There's a small typo in one answer; no versus not Should be: will not use IPv6 until supported by my ISP I'm paraphrasing above since I don't know if trying to access the exact question/page again will screw up your stats. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: Problems with installation OpenBSD 4.4

2008-11-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
could be to blame. Another possibility is a problematic CD-ROM drive, or a problem between the CD-ROM drive and chipset/driver. Could both you and Chris post a dmesg, and provide details about your CD-ROM drive? -- J.C. Roberts

Re: 4.4 installation on a large disk

2008-11-21 Thread J.C. Roberts
further mind reading attempts, please provide more information, including the required dmesg, and also wear a high quality foil helmet. Thanks, J.C. Roberts

meetBSD 2008

2008-11-19 Thread J.C. Roberts
://www.designtools.org/meetBSD/index.html enjoy. -- J.C. Roberts

Re: VLC/MPlayer/ffmpeg audio/video sync issues introduced in 4.4..

2008-11-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
mplayer sufficent cache is also *real* important for a number of issues. In your ~/.mplayer/config you might try: cache=32768 In your ~/.mplayer/gui.conf you might try: cache = yes cache_size = 32768 Good Luck! -- J.C. Roberts

Re: VLC/MPlayer/ffmpeg audio/video sync issues introduced in 4.4..

2008-11-10 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:26:22 + Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:08:59PM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote: general mplayer configuration suggestions nah, it's probably an B-frame or trellis or quantization issue. Then again, it might be the flux capacitor

Re: Capture serial port output to a file

2008-10-29 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Marc Balmer wrote: * Bruce Bauer wrote: Problem: OpenBSD 4.2 on i386 Serial port /dev/cua00 connected to the console port on a firewall. I need to catch all text output from the serial port to a file. The process doing this must survive a loss of network.

Re: change serial console to display

2008-10-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 08:49:13 Oct 28, ico wrote: Hello gents, I did configure my old box with serial console probably 2 y ago. Now I'd like to get it back to normal. I don't have null modem cable available. What needs to be changed? I already

Re: NTFS EXPERT Read/Write MULTI OS ready to DEPLOY on HIS obsd ?

2008-10-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Neko wrote: i have being using openbsd since 2.6 and contributing, so please read before posting. Liar. http://mlblog.osdir.com/openbsd.tech/2002-10/msg00208.shtml You also took a 5 year long break between 2003 and 2008. You should take another 5 year long break,

Re: Serial ATA RAID ctrl on PCI

2008-10-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Monday 27 October 2008, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: Hi, I'm looking SATA controller with h/w RAID support which is working on OpenBSD and has: - minimum 4 SATA ports (internal preferably) - Built-in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5 - Hot swap (not a must) - PCI bus - large drives support

Re: commercial support - pf/relayd

2008-10-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, uday wrote: Hi, just wanted to know if there were any commercial support available for pf/relayd in particular or any other support contract that could include these two components. sincerely, uday What kind of support are you after? There's a great list of

Re: change serial console to display

2008-10-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, ico wrote: I'm not sure, how could I modify /etc/ttys to replace existing console line with unknown off. Except maybe mounting disk elsewhere. Since you're trying to disable your serial console setup, I'm guessing you have a keyboard and monitor attached now. If

Re: Longest Uptime?

2008-10-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, new_guy wrote: I know. Longest uptime is silly, macho, pointless stuff... but I ran across an old SunOS 2.6 box that had been up for 387 days. It had been hacked. The only reason it was not an open mail relay is that /var was full. So, I thought to myself, I bet I

Re: file encrypyion

2008-10-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Paul M wrote: I'm looking for a way to encrypy backup files for secure storage. Gpg is an obvious candidate, but I'm wondering if there's anything in base, perhaps a creative use of ssh or some other tool, though not something liable to break, obviously. Any

Re: NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver ready to merge on cvs obsd ?

2008-10-27 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 26 October 2008, Neko wrote: its shows that some poor trolls here dont own ultraportables with no external drives, and use more than one os alternative. i pass data from bsd to fat 32 so in m$ its then copy onto ntfs, i have 1 disk - 8 os, nothing is being done , but more and more

Re: NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver ready to merge on cvs obsd ?

2008-10-26 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 26 October 2008, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:51:38PM +0200, Alexey Suslikov wrote: | Paul de Weerd wrote: | On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:01:40PM -0700, Chris Kuethe wrote: | | On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Matthew Weigel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | |

Re: what exactly is enc0?

2008-10-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wednesday 15 October 2008, ropers wrote: I don't know if it is possible to use --surrounding physical space permitting-- 64bit cards in 32 bit slots (and have them run w/ reduced performance). IIRC, something like that used to be possible back when it came to the transition from 8bit ISA to

Re: dmesg IBM x3650 OpenBSD 4.3

2008-10-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Monday 13 October 2008, Artur Grabowski wrote: gm_sjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/10/10 Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wow. Good luck. Can't you see we've been down that road before with those bastards? But really. Good luck. You really are too optimistic, but sure, learn the

Re: KDE Question, Blank 'Kicker' at the bottom of the screen, missing menus

2008-10-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wednesday 15 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed all of the relevant KDE packages and set it to start at boot time with KDM and it worked fine initially, for a couple days. Without my changing anything in particular, the equivalent of the windows taskbar at the bottom of the

Re: BSD Port from OpenJDK

2008-10-16 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Kurt Miller wrote: Quite frankly I'm pretty upset at all the 'Java sucks' banter on misc. If you and the other naysayers don't realize that porting Java to OpenBSD was a 'Good-Thing' then you are just UNINFORMED!

Re: 4.4 arriving in the U.S.

2008-10-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Dave Anderson wrote: Today's mail delivered the 4.4 CDs near Boston, Mass. Many thanks to the developers, Dave Silicon Valley! Thanks to Austin and Computer Shop Calgary for the fast shipment! And big thanks to all of the OpenBSD developers! -- JCR

Re: Patching a SSH 'Weakness'

2008-09-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Saturday 13 September 2008, johan beisser wrote: On Sep 13, 2008, at 5:49 AM, steve szmidt wrote: Yes, the US had it for a while but a recent ruling has reversed that. Really? I never heard of it ever being passed in the first place. If it's the case I'm thinking of, the key couldn't

Re: Does OpenBSD have adjustkernel?

2008-09-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 14 September 2008, Ling Xiaoheng wrote: Hey,guys: In NetBSD its have adjustkernel perl script can custom your kernel configuration file,how about OpenBSD? I custom my OpenBSD kernel configuration and rebuild it,but in the dmesg I found OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #375: Tue Aug 28

Re: Patching a SSH 'Weakness'

2008-09-14 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sunday 14 September 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-09-14, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the UK, it seems there's such a law. Page 1: http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39282266,00.htm Page 2: http://networks.silicon.com/silicon/networks/mobile

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