it's development to continue.
Probably want to go through the Shuttleworth Foundation
(http://www.tsf.org.za/), set up specifically to field such requests and
proposals.
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stification for people to continue to have a reason for MySQL.
Given the cost of programmer time (and the cost of lost data) vs the
cost of a slightly faster processor, is it ever really worth it even
if MySQL is *twice* as fast?
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any problems. CGI.pm got downgraded, so my webserver died until I figured that
out, but everything else was minor.
Thanks y'all for making it just work!
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n the Cruises.
OpenBSD ought to have a cruise coming up, don't ya think? That'd be cool.
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o read RFC822 and RFC2822, or just grab the regex at:
<http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html>.
And no, I'm not kidding. (It's easier to use the Perl module, which creates
that regex on the fly.)
You're in good company though. Nearly *everyone* gets this
ot;[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | egrep "\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$"
This is *not* an email matching regex. See my message earlier in the thread.
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dded bonus would
be someone who has been in open source software for a long time.
Past shows can be found at www.twit.tv/floss, including the one I just
did with Josh Berkus of the PostgreSQL project.
Any volunteers?
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>>>>> "Jona" == Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jona> I don't know Perl that well.
There are ways to fix that. :)
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e parent never goes away
(since it's shared by the next series of CGI hits). But again, with proper
care, even a FastCGI script can be written properly.
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er
words, you can't totally give away all your rights. So, an explicit
license is required.
I learned this while taping the FLOSS Weekly show about SQLite
(twit.tv/floss26), which Richard Hipp placed in "the public domain" before
determining that later there would be problems. :
d or hardened in any
way?
As far as I can tell, it's the stock 5.8.8 in OpenBSD 4.0. I seem to recall a
couple of security patches applied as part of "errata" in past releases, but
there are no security patches for 5.8.8 as I type this.
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on.
Marc> and we are starting to make use of basic OpenBSD
Marc> libc code (crypto hashes and mkstemp) in XS code that will yield the same
Marc> interface as the CPAN perl module.
Might be interesting to make this available as a CPAN module too.
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ssarily be.
If you have bandwidth to spare, no biggy, but if you ever start getting
congested, all hell breaks loose. Google for "TCP-over-TCP" for more info.
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>>>>> "Passeur" == Passeur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Passeur> bios0: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform
Aha... if you get VMWare working nicely, please publish the instructions.
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r your actual mailer IP or your hi-range MX ip again
(temporary blacklist using PF, preferably on a separate ingres machine if you
can).
These "lightning rods" attract the spammers, while allowing normal
RFC-compliant mail to get through. Like I said, I've been VERY happy with my
hi
al recently that I'm not
aware of. If so, please share.
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Since discovering Perl, the longest thing I ever write in any shell
script is .profile, and that's annoying enough, and making me wish
I could just cut the cord and use Perl as my login shell.
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e, and I am willing to switch
Gilles> as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September).
stonehenge.com has been on an openbsd-based dedicated box since april of 2002
at sprocketdata.com. You can ask me privately about details.
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ugh.
Yes, I suffered those too. However, they're still in the 4 or 5 9's category,
even with those outages, and for the price, it's a nice deal.
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Per
e 1
Stop in /usr/src/gnu/lib/libstdc++ (line 22 of
/usr/src/gnu/lib/libstdc++/Makefile.bsd-wrapper).
Help! What am I doing wrong? It's holding up a "cd /usr/src && make build"
as well. Do I dare issue "make -k" to get past that?
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s well.
I'm upgrading a remote box, so a "standard upgrade" is not an option,
nor is a reinstall. There was no warning in the FAQ that the
information was definitely broken. It must have worked for *someone*
or it wouldn't have been put in the FAQ, I presume.
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r/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/gcc
instead of the broken relative path it generates
3) reissue the default build, and install
I'm restarting the /usr/src "make build", so I've also edited the
parent Makefile so that it won't try to redescend into libstc++. I hope
that wor
FAQ, which says to do the "make obj" step.
So, I added a step which cleans up from the "normal" build process.
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fter the first bootstrap
installation.
Thus, there may be a bug there. Might deserve some investigation.
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;>
>>
>> # Han
Clint> The pkg_* tools are perl. Even though its a firewall he may need to
Clint> install/remove/maintain pkg's of some sort.
If it's the bug I'm thinking of (the sprintf issue), only the /usr/bin/perl
binary is affected. You can probably get
e
on the /etc/rc load. Oddly enough, I copied those same lines
to the end of my /etc/rc.local, and it works fine, so I'm not worried
for now, just puzzled.
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ith this one trick. For
more details, find the PDF I wrote titled "you had me at HELO" via google.
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es
Graham> on your lowest-valued MX is just going too far!
I hate greylisting. It hurts legit mail to solve the spam problem. And I don't
need it, based on the amount of spam I can kill with this (and a few other
tricks described in the referenced paper).
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>>>>> "Constantine" == Constantine A Murenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Constantine> Correction: this very neat trick is by Randal L. Schwartz; Graham
Constantine> was the one opposing it in this thread. :-)
Constantine> Here are some results of
mains as possible, and once having "delivered" the message
(even a 4xx), they move on.
Thus, you need something that will at least connect and try to accept the
message.
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ghly the
same level of liberation as the BSD license. I'd be hard pressed to find an
application of Perl where having a BSD license would have been the deciding
factor.
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x27;re serious, the answer is no. They're roughly equivalent.
But your question is moot, since that's not what pkg_* is written in.
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Smalltal
was even more "do nearly whatever you
want", with less legalese?
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7;s own?"
Are you not paying attention in the thread to the three prior times
I (and others) have already said this?
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grams using "fork()", albeit with a few restrictions.
I've installed this on OpenBSD and a few other platforms, and at least most of
the tests pass. :)
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otice when their particular contribution has been accepted as a
security patch. What am I missing here?
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mtree, a function defined in File::Path:
use File::Path;
rmtree('/path-to-dir');
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a good way to learn to check return values as well.
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>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Ahlsen-Girard writes:
Ed> #!/bin/sh
Ed> export cvsroot=anon...@rt.fm:/cvs
Ed> cd /usr
Ed> cvs checkout -P src
Ed> date
You still haven't learned to check the return value of cd. :)
That should be:
cd /usr || exit 1
-
is where I work and
Diana> ... .
And if you think bad things can't happen to good people, that's pretty much
the story behind my conviction, described at http://www.lightlink.com/fors/.
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mranjit> source code in commercial products. Please let me know if
Simranjit> this is not right place to enquire regarding the
Simranjit> license. Thank you.
Very sad for people's ability to read. The future looks bleak.
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That's a pretty clueless ISP. They should have given you either a /128
or a /64. Why they gave you a /122 is baffling.
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utdown:
http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-open-source-release
and a few hosted solutions have popped up, like typewith.me
and piratepad.net.
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>>>>> "Michal" == Michal writes:
Michal> "Where can I get this piece of software" which just makes you angry as
Michal> it takes 5 seconds to search it.
There's a reason I have an IRC alias (/goo) for lmgtfy.com . Far too
many users want me to op
olumn at: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col54.html
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n't use it
Brad> regularly is always an adventure.
Solution: learn "ed" a bit more.
It's really *not* that hard. :)
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u know how to use one of them,
Matthew> then you know how to use the other two.
Everything I used to know about sed, I've forgotten once learning Perl.
There's really no excuse for not knowing Perl and Python these days.
And if you need to learn Perl, I can recommend a good book (o
I don't see anything that is exceeding the threshold.
33M > 387
20M > 3273
178K > 20K
33M > 359
20M > 48K
178K > 18K
Where do you see "going crazy"?
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me perl script for
Aaron> a very basic "load balancer" which would dynamically redirect requests
Aaron> to random web servers in your server farm (which you would have to
Aaron> define).
Poor man's load balancer:
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col55.html
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. Even if you can get them
right, it's not obvious that the reader would know them as well.
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good as the ones at Berkeley or FSF. Perl is about as free
as anything gets.
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>>>>> "Dmitry-T" == Dmitry-T writes:
Dmitry-T> Is in OpenBSD lacks developers?
That might as well be the last message you post here.
Any little help you would get, you've just offended them.
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not, you shouldn't be worried about Paypal.
If it's not about Wikileaks, google searches don't show anything else
particularly interesting about Paypal recently, so I wonder what
triggered your message.
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eeling lucky, use two of your five free tunnels to have an
endpoint in the USA (to see streaming media available only in the USA)
and the UK (to use BBC iplayer). Of course, the tunnels are meant for
you to have ipv6 anywhere. I just consider that a bonus. :)
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instead of "Ultimate" in the subject line?
Yours for a more literate education,
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significantly more secure, you've lost the game already.
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ility that someone is trying
Peter> to bruteforce their way in via some account or other right now is not
Peter> negligible.
And about 1/1000th the traffic if you move your sshd from 22 to
something far less standard, based on my experience.
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