LSI Logic 53C1030 on DL145-G2 not working

2005-08-08 Thread bofh
Hi, I have a HP DL145-G2. The SCSI card that comes with is supposed to be supported by the mpt driver - the LSI Logic 53c1030 Fusion. It's not. I also bought a MegaRAID 320-2X which I thought was supposed to be supported by the ami driver, it's not. The MegaRaid has the latest bios, H429 build

Re: LSI Logic 53C1030 on DL145-G2 not working

2005-08-08 Thread bofh
On 8/8/05, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BIOS on your box is lying. Update it to something newer and it might magically work. Oh gods. I just went to HP's site, and saw that there's bios updates available. This is a HP DL145-G2, which has 2 hard drives, and no floppy. Even the

Fwd: LSI Logic 53C1030 on DL145-G2 not working

2005-08-09 Thread bofh
Ooops, sorry, replied directly. -Tai -- Forwarded message -- From: bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Aug 9, 2005 10:39 AM Subject: Re: LSI Logic 53C1030 on DL145-G2 not working To: Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8/8/05, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please try -current

Re: LSI Logic 53C1030 on DL145-G2 not working

2005-08-09 Thread bofh
On 8/9/05, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they all work, they do not work in that specific machien because we don't see the PCI bus they';re in for some reason - as other people told you before Didn't see that part. Thanx for clarifying. This sucks (for me), as HP's our

Re: OT: rackmount rails

2007-07-09 Thread bofh
On 7/9/07, Steve Shockley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have yet to find aftermarket sliding rails that don't suck. Either I've been impressed by HP's sliding rails. Haven't really seen other rails but damn, Sun doesn't even do sliding rails for the v100s or whatever it was I bought last year.

Re: Intel Core 2 - round #2

2007-07-11 Thread bofh
On 11 Jul 2007 10:59:12 +0200, Artur Grabowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christoph Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Linus contradicts Theo on Intel TLB issue: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=559 Count the number of bugs in the errata. Only a very few of them deal with the TLB and most of those

Re: Intel Core 2 - round #2

2007-07-11 Thread bofh
On 7/11/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Artur Grabowski wrote: The TLB issues are just one small part of what Theo was talking about, not even the most important one. Count the number of bugs in the errata. Only a very few of them deal with the TLB and most of those are easy

Re: Intel Core 2 - round #2

2007-07-12 Thread bofh
On 12 Jul 2007 09:56:03 +0200, Artur Grabowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that's what he said. He wasn't contradicting me, he was just amplifying my message. :) In that case, color me *blush* :) Apologies Jacob. -Tai -- This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle

Re: support for Sun Fire

2007-07-16 Thread bofh
On 7/16/07, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The HP-145 M1 and IBM e326, witch both works well, with the IBM giving me some minor issues every few months, but looks like it cleared up over time with various upgrades. I'm not sure if I would recommend the DL-145s. I bought about 2 dozen

Re: Disk encryption

2007-07-17 Thread bofh
Because you're thinking like an experienced system administrator, not some phb or fresh graduate pretending to be a Big4 auditor. On 7/17/07, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:08:21PM +0300, Richard Storm wrote: This is crappy howto. *encryption* there are

Re: Hack OpenBSD and improve fitness at the same time

2007-07-20 Thread bofh
Well, there's the obvious solution, right? OUTSOURCE IT!!! Just stick the sweaty person on the outside! On 7/20/07, Steve Shockley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Olsson wrote: -Apart from health this could be used to generate electricity for Theo's servers! You're not looking at the big

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread bofh
On 8/1/07, Floor Terra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you asking why someone who spends so much time helping others (probably you too, you use OpenBSD right?) does not get a real job?! Really, the question comes down to: Should a core openbsd hacker have to pay for the machine they do openbsd

Re: Kuro5hin: OpenBSD Founder Theo deRaadt Has Conflict of Interest With AMD

2007-08-05 Thread bofh
On 8/5/07, Tobias Weisserth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, What a crappy article. Whoever gives a sh*t about what that guy wrote, I don't know. Well, there's also the fact that Theo lost part of the $2mil grant from Darpa because of his outspoken opinions. If US$2mil wasn't enough to buy

Re: partioning for multiple OS's

2007-09-03 Thread bofh
On 9/3/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- sda1Primary Unknown (27) 10479.01 sda2

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-13 Thread bofh
On 9/13/07, Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the printed, comb-binded, March 1987 Sixth Edition, version 18 of the GNU Emacs Manual. It includes the 1985/1986 version of the GNU Manifesto which says on page 244: If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread bofh
On 9/13/07, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't. The OpenBSD installer is a very underrated part of the overall user experience. What other OS can you install in 3 minutes flat? Keep it simple, stupid. Oh noes, you don't understand. See, I have a shaggy dog tale that demonstrates

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread bofh
On 9/14/07, Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To stay informed of new features, please supply your support contract number on the page http://www.openbsd.org/update-me-when-stuff-is-done/ Unfortunately, 404 compliant. -- This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity.

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread bofh
On 9/15/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman can be found here: http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/info/GNUGNU If Stallman actually believed a word of what he wrote above, he would still be dedicating all of his works to the public domain since it would

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread bofh
On 9/15/07, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has everything to do with Stallman's FSF/SFLC lawyer cronies. They're the ones giving faulty counsel to Linux developers. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this. People who have spoken with him indicated to me that he is

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread bofh
I don't thinl this helps openbsd or anyone else. As Theo is already working with the individuals involved, and hasn't asked for help, I think rather than saying I think you're going to suck, let's see what happens. Going ovewrboard isn't going to help anyone. On 9/16/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?

2007-09-20 Thread bofh
On 9/20/07, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 20, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Josh wrote: Can someone please inform me if this is a really bad idea or not, ideally with some nice reasoning? What type of throughput is required between each segment? If you've been around here much, you've

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?

2007-09-21 Thread bofh
That's why god created competant network admins and NAT. On 9/21/07, Luca Corti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:52 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I don't understand the logic of having multiple firewalls on one box. If one box can handle the throughput requirements of

Re: Is AMD64 page out of date about W^X?

2007-09-21 Thread bofh
Isn't one of the core2 bugs that nx is only honored for one of the cores but not the other? On 9/20/07, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/20/07, Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to:

Re: Is AMD64 page out of date about W^X?

2007-09-21 Thread bofh
Sorry, iirc it was in that link that Theo posted on core 2 errata. Hopefully I didn't read it incorrectly. But I disclaim everything... On 9/21/07, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't one of the core2 bugs that nx is only honored for one

Re: ms exchange replacement

2007-10-02 Thread bofh
Is there even anything that's a full sexchange replacement? I'm aware of a group that runs around replacing large sexchange installations with linux running on BigIron, so there may be feasible replacements. Is your issue sexchange or LookOut? On 10/2/07, knitti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-23 Thread bofh
On 10/23/07, Ben Goren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's about it. I suppose running Windows virtual machines on a real OpenBSD machine might ``have a lot of security benefits'' in some perverted sense of the words, but it's not like the VM is magically going to protect the virtual

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread bofh
On 10/24/07, Jack J. Woehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All things being equal, the safest base installations in the universe would be those whose user instances were encased in some kind of solid VM and whose base instance administrators were provided with and followed best practices. My VM:

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread bofh
On 10/24/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: without bad config errors (that are getting harder to make, except on cisco, they got the semantics completely wrong and stupid defaults) and usedcorrectly, yes, VLANs perfectly isolate network segments. I'm curious about this. Do you have

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread bofh
On 10/24/07, L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, it's YOU that missed the point! I never said or made any comparison to physical machines - the entirety of that I said is: Running services/application domains in VMs increases security. As I said in a previous email, only an idiot

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-25 Thread bofh
On 10/25/07, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, if I take your point or 'applications domain' and and translate this in more practical term and stop using words out of the far fetch paper and use more pragmatic day to day example. You argue that in this case, if a setup is using VM

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread bofh
I'm really curious, I've never heard of a HD firmware killing bug in linux since 1.3.x. I used to spend a lot of time following linux in the 1.2 1.3 kernel times and don't recall hearing about that bug. Thanx. On 10/27/07, Tonnerre LOMBARD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salut, On Sat, Oct 27, 2007

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-28 Thread bofh
On 10/28/07, Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 20:27 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: The fact that Microshaft crap has hundreds or thousands of vulnerabilities is the other extreme of the list. I have gone as far as to say Windows is insecure by default which is

difference between newfs and newfs -m 1 on a 250G hd?

2005-06-25 Thread bofh
Hi, Just bought a WDC 250G HD. Model WD2500JB-00G. I tried a newfs -m 1 /dev/wd3a. After newfs is over, wd3a is not mountable. fsck can't find any usable superblock. However, when I did a newfs /dev/wd3a, the resulting partition checks out fine (fsck is ok with it) and mounts without problems.

Re: difference between newfs and newfs -m 1 on a 250G hd?

2005-06-26 Thread bofh
On 6/26/05, Otto Moerbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Ted Unangst wrote: you changed a default and found a bug. less than 1% of users ever use -m. there's really no good reason to use -m 1, and several reasons not to (not least of which is it apparently doesn't work).

Re: IDE / SATA Filesystem Mounting Problem

2005-07-22 Thread bofh
On 7/20/05, Ryan Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem adding a SATA drive to my current obsd configuration. I have two IDE drives in the box. A 12gig and a 40gig. I have the /, /usr, /var, /tmp and swap on the 12gig and /home on the 40 gig. I just purchased a SATA drive with a

1U opteron servers from tier-1 vendors?

2005-07-28 Thread bofh
Hi, I've been following the discussion about opteron servers, and when I am finally allowed to go get a few servers, I find that HP and IBM have both changed their servers. IBM's eserver 325 is now 326, and HP's DL145 G1 is now the G2. Have anyone bought any servers from a Tier-1 (ibm, hp,

Re: 1U opteron servers from tier-1 vendors?

2005-07-28 Thread bofh
On 7/28/05, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have anyone bought any servers from a Tier-1 (ibm, hp, dell[1]) recently that is opteron based, that works fine with openbsd? The IBM's I bought are all 325's, I will have a 326 shortly. Can't find any, their website states that 325's are not

Re: authpf-like functionality via a web interface?

2005-08-02 Thread bofh
On 8/2/05, Andy Bradford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus said Barry, Christopher on Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:43:56 EDT: Authpf seems to do this via ssh, but I'll need to service non-ssh equipped sales folk, etc. Is there a project around that provides this functionality, or will I need to create

Re: OpenBSD Desktop Document

2005-11-12 Thread bofh
On 11/8/05, Joe S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, this is a good start. One more piece of advice, try not to make the document too narrative, but rather just put in what the user needs to know to get a desktop working. One piece of advice, take a look at gentoo's install docs. Just

Re: ssh brute force attacks

2005-11-13 Thread bofh
On 11/13/05, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an attack against TCP, not SSH. TCP is not encrypted (usually - IPSec or somesuch, with the proper settings, could make this impossible) - all that's required is some sequence numbers. And yes, a really good switch configured by

Re: RAID Controller for UltraATA/133 Drives?

2005-11-26 Thread bofh
On 11/25/05, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are partially correct about the MegaRAID ATA 133-2 HBA; the MegaRAID ATA 133-2 is _partially_ supported in OpenBSD mainly because it is only _partially_ a RAID device. The low-end ATA-133-2 card is actually a fake-RAID device that

Re: HOTO Write bad documentation

2005-11-26 Thread bofh
On 11/26/05, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wouldn't presume to speak for Mr. Holland, of course. But I've raised the pdf issue here a couple of times lately. I *don't* hate pdf. What I object to is inapproriate use. Why the hell would you type out a text document and then make it

Re: #define failure opportunity

2005-11-29 Thread bofh
On 11/28/05, Paul Pruett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: omg what a load of , to funny, any coporation stupid enough to fall for that story by ssh to buy Tectia ssh and not use openssh deserves to be taken for plus the security issues they will get. That's because there's a huge number

Re: RELEASE BUG - ami0: timeout ccb 1

2005-12-26 Thread bofh
Hi,

Re: RELEASE BUG - ami0: timeout ccb 1

2005-12-26 Thread bofh
Hi, I have one megaraid i4, but with two channels set up. One raid1 for the OS, and one raid5 with 4x250G hard drives. Currently, my 3 options are: 1) use the older motherboard, P3-450Mhz with 3.8-release which supports both channels. 2) use the newer motherboard, P3-1.4Ghz, with 3.8-stable

Re: RELEASE BUG - ami0: timeout ccb 1

2005-12-27 Thread bofh
On 12/27/05, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strip a single RAID 5 set across channels to speed up the SCSI backend. Then slice it up using disklabel. That should do the trick. My problem is that the 2 OS drives are 160GB, whereas my attempt at a poor man's raid5 are 4x250GB. One

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread bofh
On 3/22/07, Woodchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Golden Age of cheap servers (and laptops and ...) is almost upon us, just as soon as the lemmings start going to Vista. Oh crap, I *will* use this in my sig file. 8-)

Re: Routing on one NIC?

2007-03-25 Thread bofh
On 3/25/07, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works fine if you're using secure VLANs. But if you have the money for a VLAN-capable switch, you might as well use dedicated interfaces. But it *can* be done easily and securely. But isn't the hope then that there's no leakage and that you

Re: Routing on one NIC?

2007-03-25 Thread bofh
On 3/25/07, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disabling DTP, which should be done anyways, will prevent VLAN hopping. I'm not sure what arp-based thing you're referring to that wasn't fixed 5-6 years ago. Perhaps you're referring to arp spoofing, which has nothing to do with VLANs. Please

Re: Interesting tangent to Routing on one NIC?

2007-03-25 Thread bofh
On 3/25/07, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. We really need more *BSD attendees at Shmoocon. If you're remotely interested in security, and I would assume most folks using OpenBSD are, you should really come out next year. Besides myself and Mike Erdely, I ran into Ray Lai

micro atx motherboard recommendations?

2007-03-25 Thread bofh
Just looking for a recommendation on a good/cheap (but not necessarily fast) microatx motherboard. Or possibly, one of those via motherboards, but needs to fit in an atx case. Thanx in advance.

Re: micro atx motherboard recommendations?

2007-03-25 Thread bofh
On 3/26/07, Todd Alan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138027 I've been quite happy with the machines thus far. However, beware that the chipsets are all NVIDIA. Thanx!

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread bofh
On 4/6/07, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you people seem to miss in the whole discussion here is that Linux people contact vendors IN PRIVATE if they find GPL violations yet a valuable member of the open source community does not get the same courtesy. Only bad things happen

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread bofh
On 4/6/07, Marcus Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a shame the gnu folks didn't release their reversed engineered specifications separately. Waitaminit - I thought they did?!?! Reading that gmane list, one of the spec writing people said he would be happy to answer any questions about the

Re: Problem: Raid mounting root as read-only, and not from the partition desired...

2007-04-07 Thread bofh
One thing you may want to consider - booting off /dev/sd0a, and mounting the rest as raid, and mirroring /dev/sd0a to /dev/sd1a so that you can swap a cable and be on the alternate /dev/sd0a. This should not be a big deal, since the root partition should not change that much, and a nightly rsync

Re: Routerboard 532 Bounty

2007-04-11 Thread bofh
Out of curiousity, why do a routerboard, when you can use something like the following: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813185094

Re: scp problem with remote filename escaping

2007-04-11 Thread bofh
On 4/11/07, Karel Kulhavy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the same filename, sometimes you have to specify a different filename to scp, depending on whether the file is on remote system or local one. I have created a remote file whose filename a b is 3 chars long - ASCII codes 97, 32, 98

Re: wireless ethernet adapters (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-11 Thread bofh
- Original message - Or acx(4), ath(4), rtw(4), rum(4), wi(4). I thought we shouldn't support ath? On 4/11/07, pedro la peu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The usual recommendation is ral(4) Or acx(4), ath(4), rtw(4), rum(4), wi(4).

Re: SSH/SFTP question

2007-04-13 Thread bofh
On 4/13/07, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (On another note, ftps - ftp over SSL - does have an ASCII mode. It's also incompatible with pretty much anything and best replaced by something vaguely modern - say, sftp.) What's the problem with ftp/ssl? Beyond the fact that it uses

Re: Recommendation for a UPS

2007-04-16 Thread bofh
On 4/15/07, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, find an old ups with a serial port, make sure it's on the nut list, then buy replacement batteries at batteriesplus for ~$25 each. Oops, sent to Chris when I mean to send to misc :)

Re: OpenBSD/alpha Status

2007-04-17 Thread bofh
On 4/16/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The trouble is, when you have a strange mystery bug floating out there, it may or may not be correctly blamed for any and all problems. So, that's the cause of global warming... :)

Re: radeon driver in -current Xorg 7.2?

2007-04-24 Thread bofh
On 4/24/07, Matthew R. Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ``it'' that doesn't have support for DRM isn't just the GENERIC configuration---it's the OpenBSD kernel sources. There's as much source code supporting DRM in the kernel as there is supporting Reiser4 or ZFS. Taking it completely out

OT: 32bit vs 64bit network card question

2007-05-14 Thread bofh
I have a question. Some 64 bit cards (PCI-X?) seem to work in 32 bit slots (PCI 2.2?). Is this a feature, or am I looking at possible issues down the road? Specifically, I am trying to build a n old(er) box, and on a whim (and vague memories about this working), stuck an em card into it. Box

Re: OT: 32bit vs 64bit network card question

2007-05-15 Thread bofh
On 5/15/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-15 00:03]: * bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-14 21:54]: I have a question. Some 64 bit cards (PCI-X?) seem to work in 32 bit slots (PCI 2.2?). Is this a feature, or am I looking at possible

Re: https file transfer

2007-05-18 Thread bofh
And if he encrypts using the http server's ssl cert, he doesn't even have to worry about decryption issues - the https server can dwcrypt and toss it to the downloading user. Security? What's that? His looks more like a business/audit issue. Am I jaded that I can now see giving the users what

Re: How much time to 'master' OpenBSD

2007-06-09 Thread bofh
On 6/8/07, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm going to be different and say 3 months, but probably much less than that. Not to be an expert, or even a competent sysadmin, in my case. It was 1992, and I was working the VMS hell desk for the school as a student worker. Heard about this

Re: About BSD Certification

2007-06-11 Thread bofh
their emails, business cards, walls, where ever. My business cards typically have my name, and the letters bofh after it[1]. Well, that got stopped at the last place, but I'm going to put it in again at the new place :) Depending on certification, and what you do, sometimes having those letters does help

Re: About BSD Certification

2007-06-11 Thread bofh
On 6/11/07, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed. The problem isn't with certification in itself but the way it currently works in the IT industry. The majority of the people with certification got it by going to a boot camp or buying one of them examcram books thus end up with a

Re: About BSD Certification

2007-06-11 Thread bofh
On 6/11/07, Karsten McMinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alot of anti-cert sentiment. borderline misinformation in some cases. I've interviewed folks with and without certs. I don't know why some people insist on arguing that book != cover[1] with regard to certs. silly. here's a couple points for

Re: Load balancing with DSR

2007-06-12 Thread bofh
On 6/12/07, Linden Varley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is generally for http layer requests but I don't think apache re-directs will suffice. You may want to look at pound. A lot of people seem to like it. -- This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity. -- Sandhurst

Re: hardware needed for network stack performance work

2007-06-13 Thread bofh
On 6/13/07, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: very fast single-CPU machines here in Hamburg, asap, since I have some time for such development right now. If you can help, please drop deraadt@ and me an email. Got me a t-shirt, a 4.1 CD set, and $100 to you. -- This officer's men seem to

Re: 4.1 install issue

2007-06-18 Thread bofh
Don't forget to mess with your bios settings. If you set up your bios correctly, you don't have to fsck with anything. Remember, boys and girls, this is why the PC is such an advanced piece of 21st century technology. -- This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity. --

Re: Security of the keyboard

2007-06-20 Thread bofh
That's ok, you can use my wep enabled wireless keyboard!! On 6/20/07, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Bob Beck wrote: And guess what. Keyboards use a serial protocol. Which means that there will be slightly different voltage drops in the system varying with the keys you press.

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-27 Thread bofh
On 6/27/07, Leonardo Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theo says that AMD is getting less helpful towards open source OS. Well, that's great. We only have 2 big proc developers for i386, and now those two are turning out crap products with diminishing documentation =( I wonder where this road

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread bofh
Work is in the process of upgrading a dual 45Mb line. We stuck a laptop on it, and was pulling 20 to 30 MB/s. A knoppix cd came down in less than 30 seconds. A former work place put in a 1 Gb/s line for one segment of their network. Would have been sweet testing that line. On 1/13/08, Dusty

Re: Need a major favor from Theo!

2008-01-14 Thread bofh
for you. And send it to you for free! The Grand bofh Church Of Security (.com) -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity. -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. Securing an environment

Re: So, is there a sure way to delete a file? (Was Re: UNIX way of undeleting files?)

2008-01-18 Thread bofh
On Jan 18, 2008 4:28 PM, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/18/08, Sunnz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I understand, if foo isn't the last hard link to the file, and `rm foo` will NOT delete the file... what does it matter if somebody keeps a link to it? if you have idiot

Re: So, is there a sure way to delete a file? (Was Re: UNIX way of undeleting files?)

2008-01-19 Thread bofh
On Jan 19, 2008 1:27 PM, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/18/08, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think he means sshd. And it really doesn't matter, once you make install, you'll overwrite the vulnerable copy with the new one, and all the hardlinks won't matter, because they'd

Re: So, is there a sure way to delete a file? (Was Re: UNIX way of undeleting files?)

2008-01-19 Thread bofh
On Jan 19, 2008 8:22 PM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Copying to a file can be done in two distinct ways with different results for any other hard links to same file. cp overwrites the original inode install unlinks the original inode (after?) writing a new inode You probably get

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread bofh
So, Look for tempest rated computers? On 1/30/08, Daniel A. Ramaley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields. She gets headaches and other pains when exposed to equipment: the

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread bofh
On Jan 30, 2008 3:50 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AIUI, tempest shields from the transients from keyboards. I don't know that it shields from all EMF above (arbitrarily) 100 MHz. Besides, I'll bet that to get the tempest certification would cost a whole lot more than even a

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread bofh
On Jan 30, 2008 7:17 PM, ropers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/01/2008, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, Look for tempest rated computers? These may be difficult to procure, because according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST even the emission limits remain classified, nevermind

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-31 Thread bofh
On Jan 31, 2008 2:04 PM, Woodchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Believe it or not, there are only two obvious P-Pro machines on ebay (us) right now. One is an overdrive (330MHz), the other a diskless Dell Demention (sic ;-) at 180. They want 96$+ship for that one. It must have considerable

Re: OT:what can be done about attackers/crackers

2008-01-31 Thread bofh
On Jan 31, 2008 5:41 PM, Lord Sporkton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my question was not so much what can i do to mitigate the attack when its happening, its more what can i do after someone attacks to stick it to them What would you like to do to them? It all depends on how good you are at

Re: photo/ image viewing software

2008-02-03 Thread bofh
On Feb 2, 2008 9:36 PM, Jason Beaudoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno what luck you've had, but I always ran into problems when trying to transfer movies (and I think larger photos). but as you pointed out.. cheap flash readers work to resolve this. I've had problems with cheap flash

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-06 Thread bofh
On Feb 6, 2008 3:09 AM, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please. There is enough bs here without intentionally piling it on. Assuming a positive aspect to that, either you're confused about the meaning of word 'based' or unfamiliar with AD. AD is *not* Kerberos nor is it LDAP. AD may

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-06 Thread bofh
On Feb 6, 2008 3:45 AM, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre van Zyl wrote: Please show me the proof that my customers are experiencing a net loss of productivity ... You've provided that data point yourself: MS Windows. That's just plain stupid, just like people who used to say

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-06 Thread bofh
On Feb 6, 2008 7:42 AM, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Lymn wrote: Oddly this non-standard AD seems to interoperate with the Solaris ldap client, an openldap client and with MIT kerberos just fine. Seems to, or actually does? Or can be be pounded in after agreeing to

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-06 Thread bofh
On Feb 6, 2008 9:07 AM, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bofh wrote: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms818754.aspx Read the page topic and search for the word PAC Several links in it appears to confirm that a broken version of Kerberos is still used: The Kerberos

Re: Inexpensive networking.

2008-02-06 Thread bofh
On Feb 6, 2008 9:28 PM, Sherwood Botsford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Part of my job description is to come as close as possible to doing everything with no resources. (My entire IT budget for this year is $6K. That includes internet connectivity, all repairs, Are things really that tight?

Re: Inexpensive networking.

2008-02-06 Thread bofh
On Feb 6, 2008 9:38 PM, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Sherwood Botsford wrote: 2. I figure there is less likely to be gotchas if all my core switches are from the same vendor. What vendors do you recommend for inexpensive switches. Go used, but find

Re: multi-disk external scsi enclosures

2008-02-06 Thread bofh
On Feb 6, 2008 10:45 AM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see external multi-disk IDE boxes. Besides, PATA is limited to something like 18 from controller to drive. Even with a PCI controller, there's not much distance. Also PATA cables aren't shielded. Why not just an

Re: multi-disk external scsi enclosures

2008-02-06 Thread bofh
On Feb 6, 2008 11:38 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, for example, I have two boxes where I'm using IDE (the third box is my Athlon with SATA drives). One won't boot (pass POST) if the drive is over 1.1 GB, the other won't boot (pass POST) if the drive is over 9 GB. I'm

Re: multi-disk external scsi enclosures

2008-02-07 Thread bofh
On Feb 7, 2008 10:00 AM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh. I tossed a compaq scsi array too, last year, when I moved. Yeah. I know that what I'm looking for, mostly, will be what people think is worthless and fit for garbage. I'm trying to garbage pick before that happens to

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread bofh
On Feb 8, 2008 7:58 AM, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: expected to emulate a Windows Server 200x domain controller. But the interoperability issue goes far deeper than this. In the domain control protocols that are used by MS Windows XP Professional, there is

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread bofh
Dude, I used to have a stack of proliants, and I agree with Nick. Prolaint bios was... Special. If you really want a low power cpu, get one of those c7 cpus, put it in an aluminium case, and you don't have to worry about all those issues that nick and others brought up. If you're worried about

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread bofh
If aesthetics is not important, a very good question to ask is - how good are you with power tools? Else, heavy steel boxes are expensive to ship :) -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread bofh
On Feb 9, 2008 4:12 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I just looked up the Cray1 on Wikipedia. It ran at 80 MHz! Perfect. Just what I want in my basement. Anyone want to port OBSD? In terms of pure computation, I believe a dual PPro200Mhz beats a Cray X/MP. --

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread bofh
On Feb 12, 2008 9:47 PM, Darren Spiteri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 1:36 PM, David Higgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's your definition of network performance? What's your delineation between a firewall and a router? I believe Ted's point is that receiving and sending

Re: harddisk impact on routing firewall performance/throughput

2008-02-12 Thread bofh
On Feb 12, 2008 11:21 PM, Darren Spiteri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now we're just getting into semantics. It is not uncommon for a firewall to operate on layer 7, even with OpenBSD, considering that an essential component of PF is ftp-proxy. What you call a firewall I call a screen-router.

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