Re: My thoughts on OpenBSD - is advocacy working ?

2011-09-06 Thread Marco Peereboom
WHERE ARE THE DIFFS? On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:34:04AM -0400, Daniel Villarreal wrote: Thanks, that's very interesting. Melkus Sportwagen GmbH is offering an RS 2000 for only 109.900 EUR. The RS 1000 had a 2-stroke engine. I bet that gets some attention. I was just studying

Re: Most secure Operating-System?

2011-09-05 Thread Marco Peereboom
Windows NT 3.51 without a network stack. On Sep 5, 2011, at 8:55, Alec Taylor alec.tayl...@gmail.com wrote: Good evening, What's the most secure operating system? /me is thinking OpenBSD Features required:  TCP/IP Suite with IPv4 and IPv6 (yeah, I know, big security loss by

Re: Laptop hard drive and emergency unload

2011-09-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
Lies On Sep 4, 2011, at 0:39, David Vasek va...@fido.cz wrote: No, Marco, it is not true. There is a difference between unloading the heads in a controlled way and by an emergency retract. Doing emergency retract repeatedly is not good, really. Regards, David On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Marco

Re: Laptop hard drive and emergency unload

2011-09-03 Thread Marco Peereboom
Removing power from a running drive won't do anything to it. Just use OpenBSD and stop looking at worthless diagnostics tools. On Sep 3, 2011, at 15:41, Steve scha...@aei.ca wrote: Hi all, I've got a strange situation with OpenBSD 4.9 on a new laptop, an Acer Aspire 1430 with an Hitachi 500

Re: My thoughts on OpenBSD - is advocacy working ?

2011-09-01 Thread Marco Peereboom
I don't see diffs in this thread. On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 06:03:00PM +0200, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: @ Daniel Villarreal yclwebmas...@gmail.com wrote (2011-09-01 17:21+0200): Seeing and hearing that Lamborghini was a pleasant surprise. Lambo is Audi now. I.e. Volkswagen - one

Re: Building xxxterm and chromium

2011-08-31 Thread Marco Peereboom
That sounds more like crappy DNS or filtered Internet. I can't speak for chromium but webkit likes = 256 files = 16384 stack. Adsuck can go a long way making the surfing experience better too. BTW you can't update things willy nilly, you have to do pretty much all of it at once. On Tue, Aug

Re: Building xxxterm and chromium

2011-08-31 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:32:23AM -0500, Bryan wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 06:23, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: That sounds more like crappy DNS or filtered Internet. I can't speak for chromium but webkit likes = 256 files = 16384 stack. Adsuck can go a long way making

Re: Building xxxterm and chromium

2011-08-31 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 06:32:20PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:32:23AM -0500, Bryan said that On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 06:23, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: That sounds more like crappy DNS or filtered Internet. I can't speak for chromium

Re: CDDL vs GPL and maybe some implications for BSD?

2011-08-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:17:53PM +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote: Hi all, as some of you maybe know there's new player on OS market called http://smartos.org . What's starting to be interesting is their port of KVM to Solaris code base which is used as a kernel module. Bryan Cantrill didn't

Re: hibernation with APM

2011-08-07 Thread Marco Peereboom
with my Thinkpad and Compaq, both with Phoenix APM BIOSes. Hibernation is sometimes called save to disk suspend, while suspend is then called save to RAM suspend. Regards, David On Sat, 6 Aug 2011, Marco Peereboom wrote: run apmd at startup then type apm -z to initiate it. Works like

Re: hibernation with APM

2011-08-06 Thread Marco Peereboom
run apmd at startup then type apm -z to initiate it. Works like a charm on most laptops of quality. On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 12:54:22AM +0200, David Vasek wrote: Hello all, does anybody please know if there is a way to initiate hibernation on APM equipped laptops that support it *from

Re: ksh - arrow keys in vi mode?

2011-07-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
I'll pay cash money for this! (emacs mode works but vi does not). On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:47:40PM +0200, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: Hello! I tried both documentation and google, and I could only figure out how to enable arrow keys in emacs mode of ksh. Is there a way to enable them in

Re: ksh - arrow keys in vi mode?

2011-07-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
doesn't work at all it seems On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:01:12PM +0400, Alexander Polakov wrote: * Dmitrij D. Czarkoff czark...@gmail.com [110721 14:49]: Hello! I tried both documentation and google, and I could only figure out how to enable arrow keys in emacs mode of ksh. Is there

Re: OpenBSD5.0-beta - 19-Jul-2011 - Dell R510 Perc H700

2011-07-20 Thread Marco Peereboom
I committed a workaround for this. Try a kernel from cvs. I'll be working on a permanent fix. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:20:07PM +0200, Hrvoje Popovski wrote: hello everyone, i was able to install 4.9-current on dell r510 with Perc H700 and everything went well. today i tried to install

Re: How does OpenBSD compare to Ubuntu Server?

2011-07-12 Thread Marco Peereboom
shoot it again son. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 03:59:31PM -0700, Zeb Packard wrote: Help, i shot it three times and I'm on my fourth monitor, 3 bullets left. What next? On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Eric Furman ericfur...@fastmail.net wrote: Please don't. This whole thread has gotten

Re: Recompile OpenBSD without built-in Apache 1.3

2011-06-28 Thread Marco Peereboom
Dude don't hate on my amiga! On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 09:42:27PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: On 06/28/11 21:31, Tito Mari Francis Escaqo wrote: Good day! Is it possible to recompile the whole system while excluding the built-in Apache 1.3 web server? I was hoping to save a few more megabytes

Re: Can command-line options be specified in any place?

2011-06-22 Thread Marco Peereboom
tl;dr linux still sucks On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:49:22PM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote: tl;dr: In my opinion, these anti Linux rants do harm to OpenBSD by condemning everything Linux does instead of allowing us to pick out just the good parts. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:22:02AM +0200, Benny

Re: Absurdly high temperature reading - system shutdown

2011-06-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
The real issue is in acpiec. Several attempts have been made at fixing this but none has been working reliably enough :-( On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 08:33:38PM +0200, Michal Mazurek wrote: After moving my old laptop around I got home, booted it and got a very distressing message:

Re: OffTopic: ctags and vi (Don't read if you dislike offtopic)

2011-06-07 Thread Marco Peereboom
Ctrl-t On Jun 7, 2011, at 18:41, Friedrich Locke friedrich.lo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list users, using vi to go from a funciont call to the function definition is just hit ctrl ]. What should i press to get back to the point i left with ctrl ] ? Thanks in advance. Fried

Re: OT: Re: Seems OpenBSD isn't absolutely alone in it's quest, atleast on embedded systems.

2011-06-07 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Jun 7, 2011, at 19:46, Nicholas Marriott nicholas.marri...@gmail.com wrote: You are either trolling or just very mixed up, the important thing is not how quickly machines can parse it or how quickly you can write a lexer but how quickly humans can parse it and what they can do with it. C

Re: Pewter Puffy

2011-06-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
Wine + OpenBSD = bliss 3 On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 09:34:25AM +0800, Nick Coleman wrote: Perhaps OT: I came across a pewter puffy by Royal Selangor at my sister's birthday dinner party last night. She was given a pewter sea horse wine aerator. The small brochure enclosed in the gift box

Re: IPv6 - www.openbsd.org

2011-06-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
Plenty of people who drink a lot in OpenBSD. They even need an extra 2 As to prove it. On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 01:39:03PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Zamri Besar zam4e...@gmail.com wrote: Just a question. www.openbsd.org not reachable via IPv6 network?

Re: Theo's Birthday, have you done anything?

2011-05-21 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 09:30:40AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: I know Theo wants this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Arcteryx-Naos-55-backpack-size-tall-Arcteryx-/300559016308?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item45fab6a174 I am bidding on it so contact me off list if you want to contribute. Geez, this

Re: Theo's Birthday, have you done anything?

2011-05-20 Thread Marco Peereboom
I know Theo wants this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Arcteryx-Naos-55-backpack-size-tall-Arcteryx-/300559016308?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item45fab6a174 I am bidding on it so contact me off list if you want to contribute. Remember hiking == code.

Re: sparc64 v120 needed in the Netherlands

2011-05-18 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 05:02:53AM +0200, Ariane van der Steldt wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:48:48AM +0200, Ariane van der Steldt wrote: For development on OpenBSD, I need a sun v120 machine in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It turns out, I don't have a 64-bit big-endian machine (and suns

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-14 Thread Marco Peereboom
read tedu's post On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 07:51:42PM +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Nicholas Schmidt oneguyn...@gmail.com wrote: Likewise here on amd64 -current. No problems on any of the sites outlined in this thread After removing ALL packages and

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
Too much conspiracy for the kernel! On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 02:49:40PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: one page is www.financialarmageddon.com/ There are some others which I can report after I finally get some bad ones closed out so that xxxterm will stay running. This page fails for both FF4

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:24:46PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:13:29PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: Too much conspiracy for the kernel! People keep telling me that these browsers are working fine, but I just don't see it! :) Aha! this is where I get to say

Re: xxxterm and firefox35 May 11 snapshot

2011-05-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
On May 13, 2011, at 17:01, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:32:33PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: Too much conspiracy for the kernel! People keep telling me that these browsers are working fine, but I just don't see it! :) Aha! this is where I

Re: linux default shell, how annoying

2011-04-22 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:00:46PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: After getting annoyed with debian using dash as /bin/sh. Adding features is one understandable thing affecting portability but surely you can keep it backward compatible. I came across this description and wondered what the lists

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

2011-04-20 Thread Marco Peereboom
When ordering a CD it lets you tack on a donation. Call it 20 CDs and tax life is good. - or - Order 20 CDs, give 19 away. Not very hard... On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:07:20AM +0200, Benny Lofgren wrote: On 2011-04-19 16.27, Theo de Raadt wrote: Income: The direct income from sales

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

2011-04-20 Thread Marco Peereboom
It isn't a good idea. jdixon tried, got exactly 0 responses. Really the horse is dead. Very very very dead. On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 07:54:52PM -0500, Amit Kulkarni wrote: Theo, Please don't take this offensively as it touches a sensitive area. Benny's proposal is good! License the CD's

Re: certs validation in xxxterm

2011-04-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
Not correct. On openbsd use ssl_ca_file = /etc/ssl/cert.pem per the example in the config file. The ~/.xxxterm/certs/ directory is where certs are saved to when prompted by the user. On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 08:05:42AM +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Tomas Bodzar

Re: certs validation in xxxterm

2011-04-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:18:00AM +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: Not correct. On openbsd use ssl_ca_file = /etc/ssl/cert.pem per the example in the config file. ??The ~/.xxxterm/certs/ directory is where certs

Re: certs validation in xxxterm

2011-04-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:41:33AM +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote: color for correct certs and yellow when untrusted because man says that it must be green. But will try correct way if color will be green. It will be if the cert is trusted. corrected and now it points to .pem files. Anyway

Re: Updating 'Release' with packaged Security Fixes

2011-04-10 Thread Marco Peereboom
Dear Mailbox, The project does not have enough hands to handle this. We are very much looking forward to your patches to help fix this problem. kthnxbye, Marco's Mailbox On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 02:46:14PM +, mailbox wrote: Are there considerations to push the very few changes

Re: install on softraid

2011-04-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
There is some garbage in the location where softraid looks for metadata. I got recently inspired to look at this because it looks like the force flag isn't always honored. For now do a couple of dd's from /dev/zero. On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 01:57:35PM +0300, irix wrote: Also I try to add wd0d

Re: Increasing inode density during install (Was horribly slow fsck_ffs pass1 performance)

2011-04-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
You really don't want to fart with these values. Performance will drop off the cliff. On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:11:55PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:46:06 +0200 Otto Moerbeek wrote: In general, the default values and algorithms for allocations could probably do

Re: full disk encryption google chrome on OpenBSD!

2011-03-19 Thread Marco Peereboom
http://geekyschmidt.com/2011/01/09/openbsd-drive-encryption-benchmarks Note that this is done using bonnie. Bonnie isn't very good in figuring out what I real world load looks like. It does give some insight in cpu usage. Crypto is slow, end of story. If you want encrypted disks you'll pay a

Re: full disk encryption google chrome on OpenBSD!

2011-03-18 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 07:02:58AM -0700, johhny_at_poland77 wrote: So our point is, if there is a good method to encrypt the full disk [like with dm-crypt/AES/under Linux], and we could have an up-to-date google chrome browser on OpenBSD, then it could be a very very good operating system

Re: full disk encryption google chrome on OpenBSD!

2011-03-18 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:54:08PM +, Timothy Legge wrote: I've found this thread to be an interesting read so far, but I do have a few questions... How is Webkit these days?? I only know so much as far as Apple's use of it, and it has been a source of heavy patching in Safari for some

Re: Dell R310 - H200 Raid performance problem

2011-03-02 Thread Marco Peereboom
I really think this heuristic belongs in the kernel. I think there is a desire to make the policy a knob (the old, I prefer slow and safe over fast and dangerous; well use a ups! they don't! debate). So instead of bioctl I think we need a sysctl, for example hw.diskcache, that by default is

Re: SMP Advice

2011-02-26 Thread Marco Peereboom
right here: http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html thanks jsing kettenis and others that made SMP work on hppa! On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:48:35PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: Can't seem to find the SMP HCL results posted anywhere - does anyone have a recommendation? Lee

Re: Dell R310 - H200 Raid performance problem

2011-02-20 Thread Marco Peereboom
bah! On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 07:20:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011/02/20 11:59, Ted Unangst wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Mark Kettenis mark.kette...@xs4all.nl wrote: Ah, that's the bit I was missing. A userland tool to display and manipulate the cache settings

Re: hibernate function

2011-02-18 Thread Marco Peereboom
there are some patches floating around. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:51:27AM -0600, Orestes Leal R. wrote: does it exists?

Re: Tracking What it's changing in current

2011-02-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
Right, but that is the holy grail because now you'd have change sets. I'll pay prize money for that ;-) On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 06:13:32AM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote: On 16 February 2011 22:21, Marco

Re: Dell R310 - H200 Raid performance problem

2011-02-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 04:22:54PM +0100, Mike Belopuhov wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:25 +0100, Lukasz Czarniecki wrote: Hi I've bought a Dell R310 with H200 raid controller reported in dmesg as: Symbios Logic SAS2008. It uses mpii driver and has two hard drives configured in RAID

Re: Tracking What it's changing in current

2011-02-17 Thread Marco Peereboom
22:21, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: Is it possible to catch the entire commit and have that diff generated? I'm a little late at this thread but yes, we do that here in work. Don't have access to the scripts though :( he means a commit that touches files in multiple

Re: Tracking What it's changing in current

2011-02-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
Man I'd love an example for this. On Feb 16, 2011, at 13:32, Nicolas P. M. Legrand nlegr...@ethelred.fr wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:16:01AM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nicolas P. M. Legrand nlegr...@ethelred.fr wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at

Re: Tracking What it's changing in current

2011-02-16 Thread Marco Peereboom
Is it possible to catch the entire commit and have that diff generated? On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 05:50:13PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 13:32, Nicolas P. M. Legrand nlegr...@ethelred.fr wrote

Re: importing gdb 6.6 into base?

2011-02-10 Thread Marco Peereboom
gpl 3 code is verboten for all the right reasons. We'll take a newer gdb if someone sends in patches. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:22:57PM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: Hi, Directing this to misc, as I am not sure tech@ should be bothered. I was just poking around the system and noticed that

Re: Minimally painful mail client for rich (spit!) messages

2011-02-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
Stuff crap like this in .mailcap text/html; /usr/local/bin/links -dump '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; na metemplate=%s.html text/html; /usr/local/bin/links '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemp late=%s.html I had them for all kinds of things but can't find that file

Re: is SHA256 file used or not ?

2011-02-08 Thread Marco Peereboom
Henning was being nice. This stupid question keeps coming up. Yes, it is a stupid question and yes it is annoying and yes Henning should remind you of that. The so called good answers have been provided a trillion times by now. Learn how to use the internet or get of it. On Tue, Feb 08, 2011

Re: dell latitude d430 + port replicator -- is okay?

2011-02-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
if i recall it correctly that is a fine machine. make sure you dont get an nvidia one though (not sure they made them but got to avoid them) On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 01:16:04AM +0200, Sviatoslav Chagaev wrote: Hi, I want to buy a DELL Latitude D430 + a port replicator (for the DVI and LPT

Re: aml parse error

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Peereboom
You are hitting a workaround in the AML code. HP has BIOS' that have AML with backwards dependencies. \\_PR_.CPU0._PPC is not in scope until acpicpu runs, but we can't run acpicpu without acpiec. The best part is that it doesn't need _REG so minus an ugly warning your machine should be working

Re: aml parse error

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 09:01:26PM +0530, karthic kumaran wrote: Marco Peereboom wrote: You are hitting a workaround in the AML code. HP has BIOS' that have AML with backwards dependencies. \\_PR_.CPU0._PPC is not in scope until acpicpu runs, but we can't run acpicpu without acpiec

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Marco Peereboom
Why are you asking that question here? On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:29:23AM -0800, S Mathias wrote: Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Questions: 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Very OT, amiga accelarator

2011-01-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
I have been looking all over the place for an Amiga 3000 accelerator, either a 68040 or 68060 and I can't really find anything useful. Anyone got a spare one for sale or closet cleaning? Contact me off list please.

Re: Freeze with Western Digital Caviar Green HDD

2010-12-11 Thread Marco Peereboom
I'll have to disagree a bit here. Manufacturers go through cycles and usually there is one that stands out on a size/period. Manufacturers almost never change the manufacturing process over time for a particular drive. They will update firmware as time goes buy. So a good drive today is going

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
!gmail On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 03:01:03PM +, lh wrote: Hi, what are the good available alternatives (security/privacy) for gmail you're using? Cheers!

Re: OpenBSD in Rock Band 3

2010-12-08 Thread Marco Peereboom
Yeah they took a shortcut. No good. They have to list *every* individual copyright message from every file they use. Someone should point that out to them. On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 05:55:33PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: That's a little strange, because I don't think there is any code anywhere

Re: OpenBSD in Rock Band 3

2010-12-08 Thread Marco Peereboom
So you suggest they should continue to break the law? On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:38:10AM -0500, Jeremy Chase wrote: I'm sure they'll recall all the CD's and reprint them. -- Jeremy Chase http://twitter.com/jeremychase On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us

Re: seeking SQLite on OpenBSD stories

2010-12-07 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:57:22AM +0800, Edwin Eyan Moragas wrote: Hi Misc, i'm looking for experience of using SQLite on OpenBSD. if anybody in the list can share 1) how SQLite is being used I use it left and right on a product we are developing and it is very very good and easy to

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
That is a bit of a rough book to start with but very good. It is very dense but touches on most language features. Its density is actually what makes it so good. You can read it twice in a weekend. Once you do that pick a simple utility from /bin and go read the code. That will put what you

Re: Advice on learning C as first language

2010-11-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
I'll call crap on c++ It doesn't really qualify as a language but more as a let me show you how smart i am tool for tools. Object orientation is interesting on the surface however the promises have never materialized. I'll reiterate my previous point. Learn C, if required you have most tools

Re: Seeking inexpensive RAID 1 hardware recommendation

2010-11-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
mpi/mpii cards that do IR/IS or IM should do RAID 1 just fine and are supported by bioctl. You just have to purchase the card carefully and make sure it has one of those acronyms. A bit more expensive would be mfi but those are well supported. What I don't know much about but is cheap are the

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-10 Thread Marco Peereboom
Here is my trusty E6500 that I have used for 2 years now. OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #0: Sat Nov 6 16:13:55 CDT 2010 r...@e6500.peereboom.us:/usr/src/kernel/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 3707031552 (3535MB) avail mem = 3594448896 (3427MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at

Re: FFS compatibility sparc64 vs alpha vs i386

2010-11-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
No. Don't do it. Danger Danger Danger! On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 02:54:15PM -0200, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: Hi there, I'm putting some disks on a sparc64 (ultra5), the problem is that I don't have another spare sparc64 machine in case hardware fails. Could I mount them on an alpha

Re: openbsd suspend to disk

2010-11-08 Thread Marco Peereboom
We don't do that yet. Mlarkin has a diff but it needs a lot more love. On Nov 8, 2010, at 6:32, patrick kristensen kristensenpatri...@gmail.com wrote: this is a request for help enabling suspend to disk (hibernate). the only reference to this in faq (that i have found) is the 4.5.3 setting up

Re: relayd port to linux

2010-11-05 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 10:31:42PM +0100, Aleksandar Lazic wrote: On Fre 05.11.2010 10:45, Theo de Raadt wrote: due to the fact that openssh and some other parts of openbsd are ported to linux maybe you can tell me if you plan to make a openrelayd which is able to compile on linux. relayd

Re: scrotwm hangs X after update to 4.8

2010-11-02 Thread Marco Peereboom
That looks like a hardware driver issue. oga any insight? On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 06:22:43PM +0200, Gregory Edigarov wrote: well, it seems like it was xorg.conf. after running X -configure and reinstalling the config - problem seems to have wanished. will observe the behaviour,

Re: OT IPv6 Was: nfsv4?

2010-11-01 Thread Marco Peereboom
I bet they don't like IPX either. On Nov 1, 2010, at 18:58, FRLinux frli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I'm proud of it. Well actually, University of Alberta doesn't sound v6 enabled either... Steph

Re: OT IPv6 Was: nfsv4?

2010-10-31 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 02:01:33PM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:02:47AM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: whether you like it or not, IPv6 deployment is gaining strength. I worked on more exception documents and other

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-30 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:55:50PM -0700, Sean Kamath wrote: On Oct 29, 2010, at 7:43 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: As for SFTP or any other method that would duplicate data, I have already discussed why it is not a possibility. SSHFS *was and still is* a possibility but it was ruled out

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-30 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:18:42PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: Le Saturday 30 October 2010 04:52:35, Marco Peereboom a icrit : On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:41:52PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: # bioctl -R sd0a sd2 If I understand well the above command kicks off a rebuild

Re: OT IPv6 Was: nfsv4?

2010-10-30 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:02:47AM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Marco Peereboom wrote: SNIP The US government mandates it and then when it gets to the people who support it they use V4. It is a beautiful thing. Go committee design! Ask theo for his much smarter IPv5

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-30 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:28:21PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: Le Saturday 30 October 2010 15:22:32, Marco Peereboom a icrit : On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:18:42PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: Le Saturday 30 October 2010 04:52:35, Marco Peereboom a icrit : On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:41:52PM

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Marco Peereboom
right, sorry about the confusion On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 09:18:19AM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: Niels Poppe [ni...@netbox.org] wrote: That is good to know, meaning, something else is broken: # bioctl -R sd0a sd2 bioctl: Target sd0a: target not specified Would it be interesting

Re: nfsv4?

2010-10-29 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 08:24:43PM -0500, Corey wrote: On 10/28/2010 06:42 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:30:25 +0200 Henning Brauerlists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Claudio Jekercje...@diehard.n-r-g.com [2010-10-28 10:01]: i have theorized in the past that the problem we

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:41:52PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: # bioctl -R sd0a sd2 If I understand well the above command kicks off a rebuild on a replacement device. Few questions from my side ... Is it possible to rebuild with another device for example sd0b or sd1a instead of

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Marco Peereboom
Really? that's odd. Did you try it a second time later by any chance? On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 04:22:45AM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 09:09:52PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: odd. does dmesg spit anything useful out? actually, no. for the usb stick pulling out

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-29 Thread Marco Peereboom
That should work just fine. Can you paste the entire dmesg after you kick off the rebuild that fails? On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 03:02:43AM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:39:27PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: Are the partition sizes on sd0a/sd1a (I assume the are mirrored)

Re: Dell R410 mpii: xfer timeout and sd0 errors

2010-10-25 Thread Marco Peereboom
That is a bad drive. You should replace it asap. On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:52, Rodolfo Gouveia rgouv...@cosmico.net wrote: Hi all! I'm having these errors with mpii0: mpii0: xfer timeout, ccb 4 state 2 mpii0: xfer timeout, ccb 5 state 2 mpii0: xfer timeout, ccb 43 state 2 mpii0: xfer

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 03:00:23PM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:31:01PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: How would softraid know which sd to rebuild if 3 are degraded? That's why 2 arguments are needed, but i would have expected bioctl -R sd1 softraid0 for the case

Re: Need Advice: Thinkpad T60 or T61?

2010-10-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
It means you get hardware acceleration :) Intel video driver is probably the best supported on X. On Oct 24, 2010, at 15:30, Clint Pachl pa...@ecentryx.com wrote: Henning Brauer wrote: intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xe000, size 0x1000 inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 1 int 16

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Oct 24, 2010, at 15:03, Niels Poppe ni...@netbox.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:09:55AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 03:00:23PM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: .. would have expected bioctl -R sd1 softraid0 for the case below. What slice is being rebuilt onto

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Oct 24, 2010, at 17:54, Niels Poppe ni...@netbox.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 03:00:23PM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: .. would have expected bioctl -R sd1 softraid0 for the case below. What slice is being rebuilt onto? Well... i guess i was thinking that from the unit identifier

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-24 Thread Marco Peereboom
odd. does dmesg spit anything useful out? On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 01:21:11AM +0200, Niels Poppe wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 06:05:35PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: On Oct 24, 2010, at 17:54, Niels Poppe ni...@netbox.org wrote: I have (err, had) this working array: # bioctl

Re: Linux or OpenBSD

2010-10-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Oct 23, 2010, at 8:48, Toni Mueller openbsd-m...@oeko.net wrote: On Wed, 22.09.2010 at 15:47:02 -0400, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: Either will work fine so long as you purchase good NICs and avoid cutting-edge (untested) hardware. The only things Linux does noticeably better is:

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
Softraid is not a volume manager. We don't support adding, removing chunks after creation time. I'll take diffs for this however this is pretty far from trivial. On Oct 23, 2010, at 17:51, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: Le Sunday 24 October 2010 00:34:53, Tomas Bodzar a C)crit : I

Re: more about softraid

2010-10-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
How would softraid know which sd to rebuild if 3 are degraded? Not debating the language couldn't be improved but that bit is IMO pretty obvious. On Oct 23, 2010, at 23:07, Niels Poppe ni...@netbox.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 07:20:10PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: Softraid

Re: Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 21610SA

2010-10-22 Thread Marco Peereboom
run forest run! really, don't use adaptec raid if you like your data. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:44:08AM -0400, S H wrote: Hi misc, I'm looking for some feedback from people who might have tried using an Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 21610SA on OpenBSD. I completely understand why Theo and the

Re: i386 and amd64 snapshots - kernel SHA256 mismatch

2010-10-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 01:08:25AM +, JC Choisy wrote: Theo de Raadt deraadt at cvs.openbsd.org writes: With snapshots, this will happen from time to time. If people start not understanding why the install media does this check, and that failure is OK, then I will remove the code on

Re: -current/amd64 @ macbook3,1

2010-10-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
Does it suspend? On Oct 13, 2010, at 16:51, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: This is a fresh upgrade of current/amd64 on a Macbook3,1. Basically, everything works except the wifi and uvideo. The wifi is reported as Wireless Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x88) Wireless Card

Re: BIOCTL Rebuild: invalid argument

2010-10-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:34:03AM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: I tried to rebuild a single disk in a 4 disk raid-10 array using the following command: # bioctl -R 0:3 sd0 bioctl: BIOCSETSTATE: invalid argument What does this mean exactly? I did rebuild the array via the MegaRAID BIOS

Re: OpenBSD Vim Programming FAQ

2010-10-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
It asks for a password and shit. Not sure how I could use this. On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:32:10PM +0200, Tomas Vavrys wrote: After 2 months I have to announce that I am unable to finish the guide. I am too busy at the moment and unfortunately I will be still busy for a long time. Anyway,

Re: Is GeForce 8200 supported ?

2010-10-02 Thread Marco Peereboom
nivida really isn't supported at all. Not their video boards, not the chipsets etc. just don't buy nvidia it is crap hardware to boot. On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 10:55:19AM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: Le Thursday 30 September 2010 22:45:02, Chris Cappuccio a icrit : Not supported

Re: Which Video to use: AGP ATI or Onboard Intel

2010-10-02 Thread Marco Peereboom
Either ATI or intel work pretty well. ATI is a bit faster but I'd guess Intel is marginally better supported. There are of course Intel and ATI boards that aren't very well supported (yet). On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 06:00:10PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Just added a system to the network with

Re: Linux or OpenBSD

2010-09-27 Thread Marco Peereboom
Ah the fresh smell of paranoia on a Monday morning! On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 05:00:05PM +0200, Martin Schr?der wrote: 2010/9/27 Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl: True, but considering some of the haha Theo suck on this commentary I recall from the rare case where OpenBSD *did* have

Re: OpenBSD Dell Latitude E6500 built in wireless

2010-09-14 Thread Marco Peereboom
I have the intel. I always order laptops with the intel wireless cards. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 01:14:48AM -0700, James Peltier wrote: Anyone using the Dell Latitude E6500 with the built in Broadcom wireless adaptor? I see that marco@ mentions he owns a E6500 here

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