Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-21 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:56:15PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: This morning I had an email arrive at Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:58:36 +1000 (EST) from computershop.ca announcing that my order had been mailed. At 09:05 I went to check my PO box for the morning mail and found my 2 sets of 4.5

Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On 2009-04-20 at 19:56:15, you wrote: We are working on changes to do this trick in a variety of our deamons and in our kernel; precognition means that we can identify an upcoming period when such packets will come in -- packets which would defragment and subsequently arrange themselves into an

Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-21 Thread gilbert . fernandes
@xoxy.net; Austin Hookaus...@computershop.ca; Miscellaneous OBSDmisc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it? On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:56:15PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: This morning I had an email arrive at Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:58:36 +1000 (EST) from

Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Weigel
Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: If you can get precognition working in the network stack, can the same technology be applied to other areas? I'm thinking perhaps you could adapt the precognition algorithm to generating commits to the CVS tree. I'm more interested in seeing what Marco can do in

Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-04-21, Daniel A. Ramaley daniel.rama...@drake.edu wrote: Once precognition is fully working, i have a humble suggestion that you work on a time travel module next. I don't know if that can be done purely in software though... you'll have to borrow the one that John Brunner appears to

4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-20 Thread Rod Whitworth
This morning I had an email arrive at Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:58:36 +1000 (EST) from computershop.ca announcing that my order had been mailed. At 09:05 I went to check my PO box for the morning mail and found my 2 sets of 4.5 CDs How did Austin and the gang know that my package had made it out of

Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
This morning I had an email arrive at Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:58:36 +1000 (EST) from computershop.ca announcing that my order had been mailed. At 09:05 I went to check my PO box for the morning mail and found my 2 sets of 4.5 CDs How did Austin and the gang know that my package had made it

Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-20 Thread SJP Lists
2009/4/21 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: precognition means that we can identify an upcoming period when such packets will come in -- packets which would defragment and subsequently arrange themselves into an attack above the socket layer. since we can precognitively pre-identify the

Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-20 Thread bofh
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: This morning I had an email arrive at Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:58:36 +1000 (EST) from computershop.ca announcing that my order had been mailed. At 09:05 I went to check my PO box for the morning mail and found my 2 sets