Re: HTTP URL filtering?

2007-02-06 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 06/02/07, Xavier Mertens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi *, I've a problem with an Apache web server hit by f*cking spammers... I would like to filter some URLs (unused but still used by the bots) *BEFORE* they reach the httpd processes. What could be the best method? pf? something else?

Re: OT: Domain Name Freedom

2007-02-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/02/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please pardon the off topic post but last month some people on this list were wondering about Friendly Registrars after what happened to Fyodor (of nmap fame) with is seclists.org domain being shut down by godaddy.

Re: Is Theo still hiking ????

2007-01-28 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 28/01/07, Brian Candler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:36:38AM -0800, Joe wrote: whats sad is how many people will never let go of NAT after they migrate to ipv6. It's not sad; for many people it would be essential. How would you like your 48-bit MAC address to become

Low power barebone: MSI Axis 700 Lite with fanless VIA C7 1GHz

2007-01-21 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi, Anyone tried subj? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856167012 http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=Axis_700_Lite It looks pretty-pretty nice, and goes for a very reasonable price -- about 202,32 USD delivered for a complete barebone -- it includes case,

Re: Merchandise idea: OpenBSD mug

2007-01-14 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 14/01/07, Samurai Chef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/14/07, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about thinking if he is allowed to use the (copyrighted) artwork for commercial use? Did he get the permissions? Does he have an OK from the copyright owner to market these mugs using a

Re: -current sensorsd doesn't work for me

2007-01-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/01/07, andrew fresh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to shut down my laptop using the voltage sensors. Unfortunatly I can't test this with a generic kernel because all my sensors on my only -current box come from the ACPI subsystem. The problem is, the limits don't seems to work: $

Re: Best motherboard for OpenBSD - light duty firewall

2006-11-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 17/11/06, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Williams wrote: This is a light duty firewall, going on a DSL line (2.5 M). I will be running spamd and perhaps squid (transparant caching web proxy), so the demands will not be much on the hardware. I'd like a (modern) motherboard that just

Re: openbsd + external sensor (t°, humidity, ...)

2006-11-09 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 09/11/06, Eric Huiban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: has anyone advise to find cheap sensors (temperature, but also humdity, pressure, light, electricity before UPS, ...) which are known to work with openbsd ? [...] Modems are also great thing to recycle from junk yard as monitor for power

Re: bsdstats.org WOW

2006-10-19 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 18/10/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/06, Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out OpenBSD :) http://www.bsdstats.org/ For historical reference, info taken from bsdstats.org: If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please send

Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD!

2006-10-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 18/10/06, ropers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/06, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theo president ! :) What an interesting idea. I would vote for him... I wouldn't, and I count him as a friend. The president is a puppet whore of special interest groups and shitheads,

Re: bsdstats.org WOW

2006-10-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 18/10/06, Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out OpenBSD :) http://www.bsdstats.org/ For historical reference, info taken from bsdstats.org: If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating System Systems This

Re: bsdstats.org WOW

2006-10-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 18/10/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/06, Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out OpenBSD :) http://www.bsdstats.org/ based on the country distributions, i'm gonna guess this isn't quite a representative sample. just a hunch though. OpenBSD seems to lead in

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel in OpenBSD

2006-10-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/10/06, RedShift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Sampson wrote: Due to the recent flair over the use of the Firefox logo, the GNU camp has decided to fork the entire project, into IceWeasel. The idea here is that they can't use the FF logo freely, so of course they must fork it. I just

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel in OpenBSD

2006-10-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/10/06, Kurt Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/trademarks/community-edition-policy.html OpenBSD is complying with the published guidelines for the community edition. That is the only point that matters. If the Mozilla Foundation thinks differently, I'm

Re: Letter to OLPC

2006-10-06 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 06/10/06, Diana Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Bob Beck wrote: Unfortunately, fixing the government while maintaining the universal democracy that is practically insisted upon by the USA as world uber-cop makes that a very difficult task. Democracy gets you

Google 'Intel Open Source' or 'Open Source Fraud'

2006-10-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
. Sincerely, Constantine A. Murenin, B.Sc. (Hons).

How to contact top people at Intel Wireless

2006-10-04 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi misc@, In the light of the recent discussions about Intel, I'd like to remind misc@ subscribers that Intel publishes information about all their top people that are responsible for producing wireless devices. Intel doesn't publish the email addresses of these top people, but knowing Intel's

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/10/06, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) Intel doesn't own the technology, but licensed it from another vendor. The licensing terms don't allow Intel to release full details. b) Intel has agreements with other customers/vendors to not release information

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 14/09/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco Peereboom wrote: Bash should be bashed. Its horrible garbage and should be banned from the face of this earth. We all know that real men use ksh. what you really meant was `real men use csh/tcsh' right ? :-) Yep, I don't get what

Re: iwi(4): contact info for Intel is out of date

2006-09-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/09/06, Alec Berryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to contact Intel about the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG firmware, but my email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the suggested Peter now seems to work at http://www.soonr.com/web/front/team.jsp contact in iwi(4)) bounced because it's now

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-09 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/09/06, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think that binary only drivers are well enough. Surely better than nothing but ... No fucking way. No support is FAR FAR better than a blob. Yes, really! Indeed! When something brakes, do you want it to continue to work as if

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 31/08/06, Miod Vallat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, FreeBSD seems to want Linux's fame and fortune and is gladly giving away its history of a stable, clean codebase to get it. The winning logo was honestly the last straw for me, though, so maybe that says something about me... Yes, it

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 31/08/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Harpalus a Como wrote: I'm just a lurker on the OpenBSD list, but I think Charles is right about Linux. The code is better then people give it credit for, and considering it's vast popularity and what all it's

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 31/08/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Pedro Martelletto wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:50:00PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Even at the kernel level? Look at device drivers and vendors as one example ... companies like adaptec have to write *one*

Re: sysctl(3) and iteration over HW_SENSORS

2006-07-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 11/07/06, Weldon Goree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the buffer must hold? And how do I get all of them at once like (I think) sysctl(3) says I can? You can't get them all at once with one sysctl(3) call, as the memory they occupy is not allocated continuously -- a linked list is used, and each

Re: sysctl(3) and iteration over HW_SENSORS

2006-07-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 11/07/06, Weldon Goree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the source, `/sbin/sysctl hw.sensors` calls its own main parsing routine 256 times to check each of the 256 possible sensors and allocates its own list from the results. Eek. Since I'm just writing a Yes, I thought the same thing

Re: Doubts about OpenBSD security.

2006-06-22 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 21/06/06, Joco Salvatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the attacker could enter in single user mode, without the need for the root password, and load a malicious kernel module. The attacker cannot load a malicious kernel module on OpenBSD, because OpenBSD specifically does not support loadable

Re: Doubts about OpenBSD security.

2006-06-22 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 22/06/06, Ryan McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 01:04:00PM +0100, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 21/06/06, Joco Salvatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the attacker could enter in single user mode, without the need for the root password, and load a malicious kernel

Re: Doubts about OpenBSD security.

2006-06-22 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 22/06/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/22/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops. :) I guess I misunderstood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems where Kernel type refers solely to the provided kernel of the OS itself

named on udp ports only

2006-06-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I'm running an sshd on port 53 (domain) as there is some convenient wireless hot-spot that allows for both udp and tcp connection on this port without any authentication. :) (Yes, there is not even a need for NSTX!) How do I tell my named(8) to only listen on udp ports, and leave tcp

Re: named on udp ports only

2006-06-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/06/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:07:25 +0100 Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running an sshd on port 53 (domain) as there is some convenient wireless hot-spot that allows for both udp and tcp connection on this port

Re: named on udp ports only

2006-06-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/06/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:28:28 +0100 Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/06/06, Gilles Chehade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:07:25 +0100 Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/06/06, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simple fact is that anyone who wants access to Hifn's documentation need only log on to our extranet site (http://extranet.hifn.com/home/) to download as much as they like. That URL is not a place where you can download data sheets. That

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 11/06/06, Hamorszky Balazs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for some help on an article on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems Whilst there, what about another important article that seems to have a Linux POV?

Re: b/g wifi card on wi list?

2006-06-09 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 08/06/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want 11g hostap on OpenBSD, currently you need a Ralink device. Afaik if you want a decent antenna, this means PCI/MiniPCI (or possibly some of the USB devices). Based on some pictures, I think that Zonet ZEW2500P would be a good

Re: b/g wifi card on wi list?

2006-06-09 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 09/06/06, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Fri, 09.06.2006 at 13:10:40 +0100, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on some pictures, I think that Zonet ZEW2500P would be a good candidate for a ural(4) USB 2.0 wireless device. It has a dandy aerial, too

Re: Does Lenovo suck ?

2006-06-06 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 06/06/06, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 08:13, Ioan Nemes wrote: The above article is a PR exercise, just testing the waters! No, it's not just a PR exercise. The reason for the sudden retreat is that they still want to be able to sell to the Taiwanese

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-05-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26/05/06, Christopher Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/11/06, Chris Cappuccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always run across cheap/free/lying around dell laptops that work great. The sound works, the wireless might work, and suspend usually works. Right now I have a dell latitude c400,

Re: is openntpd 3.9 real?

2006-05-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/05/06, Matthew R. Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:44:41AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: * Matthew R. Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-13 03:00]: Will it include the leap second patch Thorsten Glaser posted earlier this week? no. Can I ask why his patch

Re: Laptop recommendations

2006-05-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 11/05/06, rjn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking into getting a new laptop (I start college in the fall). [...] On 11/05/06, rjn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to thank everyone for their input. Although I won't buy one immediately, I'll probably get a T43 as they are still

Re: FYI, 1and1 hosting fun (ip subnet zero)

2006-05-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
I didn't know that Linux has such an ugly dmesgs. Please, resist from posting them on this list, they hurt my screen. :) On 11/05/06, Timo Schoeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thus Robert spake: Timo Schoeler wrote: thus Robert spake: Timo Schoeler wrote: thus Alexander Farber spake: Do you

Re: laptops needed

2006-05-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/05/06, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think drinking beer under a palm tree beats drinking beer at a keyboard any day. Why not drink a beer under a palm tree while at the keyboard? Living in South Florida I have had the good luck to have many an opportunity to do this... and I

NSTX: IP-over-DNS on *BSD?

2006-05-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi! I'm wondering if there is a port of NSTX server and client for *BSD systems? (I'd like to set-up OpenBSD as the server, and OpenBSD or OS X 10.4 as the client.) The stuff that I've downloaded from http://nstx.dereference.de/nstx/nstx-1.1-beta6.tgz says that it's linux only. P.S. Are there

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

2006-05-07 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/05/06, dave feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After running kde on 3.9 I found the following error messages in the kde error log: kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/etc/samba/smb.conf' kio (KDirWatch): WARNING: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle

Re: Network problems

2006-05-07 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/05/06, dave feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to 3.9 yesterday and today I am having severe network problems. This has been happening for the past week, but is now much worse. Browser requests take forever Clearly, it's OpenBSD's fault. Try downgrading to 3.8, or 3.7, or

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

2006-05-07 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/05/06, Ilija Liebermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 11:35 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: On May 7, 2006, at 11:18 AM, dave feustel wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 10:53, Jason Dixon wrote: On May 7, 2006, at 10:38 AM, dave feustel wrote: After running kde on 3.9 I found

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

2006-05-07 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/05/06, dave feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:16, D. E. Evans wrote: Why are you repeating your question when you've already been answered? OK I didn't get it the first time. What was the answer? Google is the answer. :)

Re: www.openbsd.org defaults to Japanese

2006-05-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/05/06, chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let other people think[0] ... [0] and use Windows... Think Different! :)

Re: OpenBSD Order 2006/3/14-9:0:5-16439

2006-05-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/05/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/5/06, Gustavo Rios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would like to know how long should i wait before i receive my CD set? Is there any reason for the delay? Comments: Midia and Software costs should be listed separated. see, here's your

Re: OT: Thoe's x commit and homeland security audit

2006-05-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/05/06, Ste Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Theo the automated code scanner mentioned here? http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060502/tc_zd/177195 In reference to this commit http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/XF4/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Init.c.diff?r1=1.13r2=1.14 7 days

Re: OT: Thoe's x commit and homeland security audit

2006-05-03 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/05/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/05/06, Ste Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Theo the automated code scanner mentioned here? http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20060502/tc_zd/177195 In reference to this commit http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/XF4/xc/programs

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/05/06, Anton Karpov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: privileges to replace your compiler with backdoored one, he has another 65535 ways to abuse your box. Did you mean 65536 ways? Anyhow, I doubt many people nowadays have 16-bit boxes on public networks. :)

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/05/06, jared r r spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:33:48AM -0400, jared r r spiegel wrote: i am not asserting that the compromise-pack did not have a precompiled sshd binary for openbsd ( the prior hop up the compromise chain in this case was a

Re: OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/05/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: once again, nothing changed. if it wasn't enabled in 3.8, it's not enabled in 3.9 and it's not going to get enabled in 3.A. eghhh... Is this the start of the version naming debate again? :) What was the conclusion from the last time? ;)

Re: Removing a misconfigured list member? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 22/03/06, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:55:39AM +0059, Han Boetes wrote: Keith Richardson wrote: Hannah wrote: Mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] didn't work either (similar loop error message). So could one please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/05/06, jared r r spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:49:07PM +0100, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 02/05/06, jared r r spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if we didn't have that little PIII/450 sitting next to the machine now, for the purposes of bringing

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 03/05/06, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/2/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thing is trusting the updated hostkey. Imagine you are a sysadmin at a university. Do you keep the old hostkey when you reinstall the system on a specific host? What about

Re: Google Summer of Code

2006-04-16 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 16/04/06, Robert Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so. In some cases the GSoC was not a real success. Just check the mozilla SoC. People create broken stuff and wanted their money. Then they just disappeared. OpenBSD wants people who love to hack on stuff and not just hack

Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one

2006-04-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/04/06, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 00:15:02 +0100 Andrew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Linus faces this issue with future versions of Linux, he doesn't like GPL 3 and won't accept it but he can't take GPL 2 off Linux kernel since it is an evolving project and

Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one

2006-04-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 05/04/06, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It means that a file with only #include statements is hardly copyrightable and can be copied at will. Can it really? I guess if in the end you make it KNF compliant and the order of the various includes are changed, but are the exact same

Re: GNU license files rules replacement guidelines with BSD one

2006-04-05 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
If you want a good insight on the issue of legal implications of creating derivative/non-derivative works with functionality that is present in existing implementations, I suggest that you follow the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, the arguments around the issue are very relevant to your question. For

Re: rotating apache logs

2006-03-31 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 31/03/06, Hiro Protagonist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: below a small piece of code i found somewhere. It works but mayby you wanna fix something. [piece of code was here] Why bother with manually compiling some third-party utility, when rotatelogs(8) is already included with apache, see

OpenSSH funding: Mark Shuttleworth?

2006-03-28 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Has anyone contacted Mark Shuttleworth for OpenSSH funding? I think there is a very high probability that he would be happy to help OpenSSH, maybe even pay someone fulltime to work on it... (I remember from the beginning of 2004 that Shuttleworth was paying some bugzilla developer such as to quit

Re: Support the project by buying from store or make donations

2006-03-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 27/03/06, Luca Losio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's always the polo shirt, or since you're in Europe, some of the gear on https://kd85.com/notforsale.html perhaps. Pics of the stuff? The first link from the above page: http://images.kd85.com/notforsale/

UKUUG Spring Conference 2006: photo-reportage

2006-03-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi! I trust everyone had a lot of fun at the recent UKUUG LISA conference! I've depicted some of this fun in the photographs, and here you can see what you have missed if you have not attended: URL:http://mojo.ru/uk/uug/2006-03/ ;) Having this opportunity, I would also like to thank everyone

Re: Reminder about the X Aperture

2006-03-16 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 16/03/06, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be we just run a workstation dedicated to remotely connect to other workstations, or servers that run X server only where it's needed and that have no video card in these servers or workstations! (: Ugh, you aren't supposed to run the X

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-14 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/03/06, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you say that? Gnumeric works nicely under Linux. No problem at all. If something is broken, it is broken. Period. Just because it seems to work on Linux every time you try it, doesn't mean that they have no programming mistakes in the

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-14 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 14/03/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/03/06, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you say that? Gnumeric works nicely under Linux. No problem at all. If something is broken, it is broken. Period. Just because it seems to work on Linux every time you try

Re: using openbsd on zaurus

2006-03-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/03/06, Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've another question regarding compatbility with some websites using some annoying third-party technologies like flash and java. Unfortunately to get some info or make reservations online you can't avoid these flash and java websites. I

Re: Pre-orders for our releases.

2006-03-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/03/06, Wijnand Wiersma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/06, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But financially we are under strain, and it is not letting us grow any of our bigger plans. It sounds like you really have big plans. Maybe it is a good idea to tell about

Re: Pre-orders for our releases.

2006-03-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/03/06, A Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A thought suddenly occurs. Perhaps big companies that use OpenBSD do not want to disclose their use by donating because they fear that this might give their competitors an advantage(now their competitors know what OS they're using), or might help

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/03/06, Graham Toal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I do believe in Backup MX, as long as it does proper relay checking. It's nice if it also does spam checking, but not critical because your primary MX will still do that. However Do you know just how disturbing it is to receive

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/03/06, Graham Toal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ host -t mx stonehenge.com stonehenge.com mail is handled by 666 spamtrap.stonehenge.com. stonehenge.com mail is handled by 5 blue.stonehenge.com. Any mail delivered to spamtrap gets the following response: 450 Violation of RFC2821

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 02/03/06, David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:38:09PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: Graham, You seem to have some contradicting views on the matter. What is the difference between greylisting and the aforementioned spamtrapping approach? Isn't

Re: IPv6 question - related to the talk of van hauser at the 22C3

2006-02-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 27/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Van Hauser held a speach at the 22C3 about attacking IPv6. He also said that even OpenBSD is affected by some of the attacks. A working stream can be found here:

Re: IPv6 question - related to the talk of van hauser at the 22C3

2006-02-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 26/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Van Hauser held a speach at the 22C3 about attacking IPv6. He also said that even OpenBSD is affected by some of the attacks. A working stream can be found here:

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/02/06, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:17:05PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: [...] Yes, there is always some compromise. But in this specific case we have much less than even a fifth of memory actually being used for programmes

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/02/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006/02/20 13:17, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: And 512MB, I must add, is the de facto minimum today for any machine, For Windows PCs, maybe... Of the machines I have running OpenBSD, 64MB is the most common RAM size, and those boxes

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/02/06, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:49:01PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: [...] If this is a common state of affairs, you can always raise the percentage of memory used for the buffer cache in the kernel, using config -e

Re: viasio hw.sensors problem

2006-02-19 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 15/02/06, Sable Keech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TEMP1 is not shown when calling sysctl hw.sensors. If I combine the command with 'openssl speed' it shows the temperature. Bad hardware? (new board, didn't run openbsd on it before, so i dont know if it ever worked.) viasio0 at isa0 port

Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I have a box with 512MB of RAM, which is running a snapshot from 2006-02-13. The box does not get used much, so most of the RAM stays still, i.e. not used by the userland. I am now quite surprised why OpenBSD does not use all of this RAM for disc cache etc. After rebooting the system,

Re: Upgrading 3.6 to 3.8, and compiling -current

2006-02-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 11/02/06, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hardly an expert so I hope you get some other opinions but here are my thoughts: On 2/10/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At a remote location, I have two boxes that are connected with each other via a serial cable

iwi(4): man-page needs update, Peter's address @intel does not work

2006-02-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Our friend Peter seems to be gone or is hiding: Intel no longer accepts mail for his account as listed in manuals for ipw(4) and iwi(4). URL:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=109994542424009w=2 (2004-11-08) Cheers, Constantine. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mail

Re: higher resolution on tty

2006-02-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/02/06, Moritz Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, i want to set up my screen resolution on tty to 1024x768 and smaller fonts, because i only work on tty on this maschine and this big fonts are a very bad on a 10,4 display. So is there a way to get this work. Because i don't find

Re: BSD on x86 and virus

2006-02-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10/02/06, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, BSD on x86 has also suffered at the hands of these maniac virus coders, so much so that there are hardly any BSD x86 web servers on the web that haven't been repeatedly p0wned.

Upgrading 3.6 to 3.8, and compiling -current

2006-02-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, At a remote location, I have two boxes that are connected with each other via a serial cable, and through a router to the internet. One of the boxes is OpenBSD 3.6, and I'd like to upgrade it to 3.8, and then compile -current (I want to play with the kernel alongside sensors.h / lm(4)).

OT: Linus chose to reject GPL v3

2006-01-26 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
It's a bit offtopic, but after some speculation in one slashdot-like local forum, I've come to a conclusion that Linus has now rejected GPL v3 for the same reasons that Theo rejects GPL in general, and Apache 2 licence in particular. :-) Well, I assume, it's a good start for them. :-)

Re: OpenBSD VMWare image too popular

2006-01-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 09/01/06, Shane J Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Julien, On 09/01/2006, at 7:26 PM, Julien Bonastre wrote: I can actually fully understand your disapproval at the idea of using a torrent to distribute this file, and I can also emphasise with your dislikening of trying to

Apple MacBook Pro support

2006-01-11 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi, I know it's kind of early, but is OpenBSD/i386 going to run peacefully on the yesterday-announced Apple MacBook Pro, or for that matter the iMac with Intel Code Duo processor? :-) Anyone has any plans on this matter? Cheers, Constantine.

Re: Weird Issue with FTP and pf(8)

2005-12-22 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 22/12/05, eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's something strange. I'm trying to connect from a pf gateway to an ftp server and it's failing in a very specific manner. Going through the pf gateway works fine using passive mode, but from the gateway itself using ftp(1) doesn't seem to work.

OT: VIA EPIA with VIA C7, for an OpenBSD multipurpose firewall: where?

2005-12-21 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, Does anyone have any news on VIA C7, or VIA EPIA platform in general? The current offers are so outdated, they still don't offer gigabit ethernet in most solutions, and the things that are offered are indeed overpriced (whereas VIA C3 is supposed to be a really cheap solution, it looks

Re: afterboot(8) message missing?

2005-12-12 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 12/12/05, Tobias Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:55:52PM +0001, Jason McIntyre wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:38:57PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: No, but to the dot.login and dot.profile files in the same directory. # chsh -s /bin/csh root (login on

Re: openbsd web site design proposals (from HOTO write bad docs)

2005-11-28 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 28/11/05, Jeremy David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/05, Eric Faurot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/05, Jeremy David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea has been mentioned in this thread that it's too difficult to make websites work in multiple browsers and still be valid. That

Re: Enhanced Speed Step Technology

2005-11-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/11/05, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/31/05, Per-Olov Sjvholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what Dell says in the server manuals about enabling this feature in bios: --snip-- NOTICE: Before enabling the Speed Step option, ensure that the operating system also

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 19/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to 15 seconds or less. Nonsense. Just because your MS Outlook does not support or is not configured to support bottom-posting, doesn't mean that you should

Re: OpenBSD's 10th birthday

2005-10-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Congrats from Mongolia. and Happy birthday from Sweden! And from a Norwegian in exile in Australia! Happy birthday! And from a Russian in Leicester, England! Happy birthday, OpenBSD!!! Thanks to Theo and all of the developers, it would not have happen without all of you chaps. ;-)

OpenBSD i386 and macppc on one HDD

2005-10-08 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I have an external USB 2.0 storage device with OpenBSD i386 installation and some free space. Is it possible to install OpenBSD/macppc on that spare space without breaking my i386 installation? How will it all work? Would it be possible to share /etc, /var and /home partitions between

Creating an MSDOS partiotion on OpenBSD

2005-09-27 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I have an OpenBSD 3.7 i386 installation on an external usb-enclosure. I have some space left, and I would like to create an msdos partition (to transfer files between windows and OpenBSD). I have tried to create one using OpenBSD's fdisk; then I have formatted the new partition in windows

Bootable multi-architecture USB HDD: i386 and macppc

2005-09-04 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hello, I have an external USB 2.0 HDD on which I have successfully installed OpenBSD/i386 3.7. Is it possible to install both OpenBSD/i386 and OpenBSD/macppc on one such drive in such a way that it will be possible to connect the HDD to either i386 or PowerPC G4 computer and boot it either way?

Re: Release/version/patch management question

2005-07-08 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 07/07/05, Markus Wernig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: 2) I assume that the answer to the following question is yes, but I'd like to double-check: Is there really no way to upgrade a single package/program to a recent version in a consistent way? No. There is no

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