Re: I hate Spam

2011-05-12 Thread Bayard Bell
Not wanting to end up in your killfile, but... what I've noticed is that I don't see any English-language spam at all on any of the lists. What I do see when periodically checking my junk folders for false positives is spam in Spanish, Russian, and maybe a bit of Chinese, French, and Portuguese.

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-14 Thread Bayard Bell
Am 14 Apr 2010 um 10:11 schrieb Zachary Uram: As a long time Linux user I will soon try out OpenBSD, I have been reading the list emails and contacted 1 OpenBSD top person who was very rude. There is some of the "RTFM" or "get lost" attitude in Linux, but if a questioner seems sincere there is u

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-14 Thread Bayard Bell
Am 14 Apr 2010 um 14:50 schrieb Theo de Raadt: I guess this is the "get lost" mail he is referring to. Yes, it is a damn fair assessment. When you pay your taxes, do you go make a personal request for assistance of your prime minister? Your mail lies about what you saw, so here is the full ex

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Bayard Bell
Am 9 Dec 2009 um 19:01 schrieb Christopher Zimmermann: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:38:56 -0500 Jason Dixon wrote: How does the announcement of new releases for ComixWall help OpenBSD? It helps in promoting OpenBSD. And this is the official purpose of the advocasy mailing list. So I think that an

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Bayard Bell
Am 11 Dec 2009 um 09:19 schrieb P-O Yliniemi: There are a lot more abuse of the misc list than Soner posting about his OpenBSD project. Maybe Theo should install a decent spam filter for the lists ? This is levelling down a distinction: there's spam that's definitely spam and can be filte

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-11 Thread Bayard Bell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 11 Dec 2009 um 09:19 schrieb P-O Yliniemi: There are a lot more abuse of the misc list than Soner posting about his OpenBSD project. Maybe Theo should install a decent spam filter for the lists ? Just a few of the recent ones: From: Commonw

Re: softraid not building on boot

2009-12-11 Thread Bayard Bell
Am 10 Dec 2009 um 23:00 schrieb Marco Peereboom: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:00:34PM -0500, nixlists wrote: Hmmm. I've used hardware raid cards for mirrors that have the verify function. It would be interesting to know how and what those cards do. They read the data to make sure the disk is

Re: A question about puting OpenBSD on a Soekris

2009-12-15 Thread Bayard Bell
I've been playing around with this lately, so I'm happy to have a stab at an answer, with the caveat that this reflects a recollection of my reading of the code rather than any attempt to make it work to your requirements. Whatever I may fail to clarify, recall, or understand is best taken

Re: OpenBSD in VirtualBox 3.1.x on non-SMP machine

2010-01-08 Thread Bayard Bell
According to http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes: "Requires VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization support." It would appear they've therefore made VT-x and friends non- configurable. You can file a bug report and see where that goes. Am 20 Dec 2009 um 10:18 schrieb Tomas Bodzar: > Hi all

Re: Is OpenBSD + PF accredited or certified in any way ?

2010-02-02 Thread Bayard Bell
Formal evaluation just means that the features judged relevant to the evaluation can be minimally verified. On the flip side, there's David Litchfield's observation in the introduction to The Oracle Hacker's Handbook: "The Oracle RDBMS was evaluated under Common Criteria to EAL4... However,

Re: Refusal to mention OpenBSD in a MSc Advanced Networking course

2010-02-14 Thread Bayard Bell
I'd venture that your professor isn't particularly well-educated if he thinks BSD is dead or dying from either a commercial or a pedagogical perspective. A considerable amount of literature on the subject of networking is written using the BSD codebase as reference (e.g. the Richard Stevens TCP/IP

nfsv4?

2010-10-27 Thread Bayard Bell
The last mail I can find on the subject seems to indicate that there were problems getting RPC to work with ipv6 (from Henning: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120291072230011&w=3). I'm not sure if this was for lack of a TI-RPC implementation or other reasons. Any info on where this is? [demime

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-27 Thread Bayard Bell
se laid out and an acceptable alternative more clearly articulated. Cheers, Bayard On 27 Oct 2010, at 17:54, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Bayard Bell [2010-10-27 17:19]: >> Sorry, but it's not entirely clear where the obstacles are. Is this >> unhappiness with the specification(s

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-27 Thread Bayard Bell
To judge from the question I don't think you've accurately parsed the argument, which isn't so much about IPv6 per se as about how IETF corrects the mistakes that invariably result in specifying more ambitious protocols like IPv6 or NFSv4 (or doesn't and precludes itself from doing so). If you non

Re: what is the “Online Certificate Status Protocol”

2011-03-09 Thread Bayard Bell
The simple answer as to why OCSP isn't itself via HTTPS is that this would be a cyclical dependency: if you need to accept a certificate, you need to confirm its continuing validity. If you have to use a connection relying on that same logic to confirm validity, at what point are you then able to m

Re: Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-21 Thread Bayard Bell
Surely there are two separate problems here: 1) you think OpenBSD needs to work to open up loopholes so that people who aren't donating or aren't donating as much because of tax reasons will now do so (and Amit thinks this is a series of technical problems that can be solved by non-strategic and so