Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Reid Nichol
arn (at least this). Why? Because, it's difficult? Seriously, adapt or die. best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength Never miss a thing. Make

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-11 Thread Reid Nichol
time spent on this. At least from me and as it seems others as well. That is, until you gain some sanity. best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength ___

Re: Completeness & consistency, was: A sad threa

2008-01-08 Thread Reid Nichol
ture and I apologise for the confusion. I'll also apologise for the rudeness in it and but I'll stand by the effective content aside from that. At any rate, I hope that this puts this OT divergence to bed. best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War Is Peace Fr

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-08 Thread Reid Nichol
too. If you're checking wiki sites instead of reading the licenses themselves?!?!? Just stunning. > My conclusion is that I should do more detailed discussions with the > developers of the FSF-endorsed sys

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-08 Thread Reid Nichol
owe them an endorsement. What planet are you on? best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-08 Thread Reid Nichol
s lawful because the revised BSD license permits users to > release the combination under the GPL. Thus the combined work, THE WHOLE POINT OF WRITING IT, is under the GPL. That IS what you just said. Which is forcing me into a license for my project that I don't want. How does that equal

Re: Completeness & consistency, was: A sad thread

2008-01-07 Thread Reid Nichol
uture as you seem to be at least partially ill equipped to speak on this topic. In other words, you have enough knowledge and speak well enough to convince students/others and perhaps yourself, but at the same time, lack the necessary knowledge/logic to come to reasonable conclusions. regards,

Re: A sad thread - RMS vs. OpenBSD

2008-01-07 Thread Reid Nichol
nsistent formal systems in both fields.) > > > > Provably so? > > > Euclidean and ono-Euclidian geometries should suffice. > > Google (including scholar.g) gave nothing of value (I see 4 results when I search for ono-Euclidean on g and nothing on scholar.g). Any spec

Re: A sad thread - RMS vs. OpenBSD

2008-01-07 Thread Reid Nichol
ovably so? +1 I'd love an example of Math being inconsistent. Quite frankly, I'd be surprised if this is true. best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength _

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-07 Thread Reid Nichol
Stay on list or stay out of my inbox. --- Karthik Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 6, 2008 7:23 AM, Reid Nichol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Which OpenBSD does. You have failed to show otherwise. > > > > To show that OpenBSD follows them

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-07 Thread Reid Nichol
trying to convince Bill and Steve to > open > source Windows. > > I definitely care what RMS thinks. I most certainly care that his nutter values, etc NOT be associated with OpenBSD. I would request the devs make not one move to satiate his extremist desires. But, to spend that t

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-07 Thread Reid Nichol
ould have read at least some of the thread before you put in your (non) two cents. For the record, somebody is within everybody. So, when you say everybody, one can reply with a counter example of somebody to such a sweeping statement. You also didn't reply to what I wrote. You made something up

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-07 Thread Reid Nichol
rogram that I write to a GPL'd lib and still retain my freedom to BSD license my code. best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength Be

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-07 Thread Reid Nichol
7;s efficient and accurate and then point out its inefficiency inaccuracy. I find it stunning that you can reconcile this. best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength __

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-05 Thread Reid Nichol
at makes you say that? You, sir are biased > towards OpenBSD and you can say what you want but it doesn't make > your version of the truth any better. It is the truth though. But, I'll mention that what you just said doesn't make your delusion true. best

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-05 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Karthik Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 6, 2008 1:06 AM, Reid Nichol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Karthik Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Use of non-free software is highly harmful to your > > > computer and ethics. > >

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-05 Thread Reid Nichol
ot make OpenBSD non or less free. No shit! They go ahead and redefine what 'free' means and they try to criticise people for still using dictionaries. Kinda says something about the level they're working on. best

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-05 Thread Reid Nichol
tention to the "Fanaticism" type: http://criticalsnips.wordpress.com/category/postman/ Link to full text within: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_bullshit And really really reflect on this before you reply. best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War I

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-16 Thread Reid Nichol
Richard, I have followed this thread for the first couple hundred mails. But, as the noise is getting to much for me, someone that is just a lurker, so I feel I must make a couple comments and a request. As your views on open-source have become more and more extreme over time, you have becom

Re: Help with chroot

2006-09-18 Thread Reid Nichol
ckets thus avoiding the whole mysql.sock issue. best regards, Reid Nichol President Bush says: War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-25 Thread Reid Nichol
erly error checked, etc. This requires more processing time. So, speed /is/ a sacrific of correctness. Qmail is "fast" compared to what, sendmail? That bloated piece of software with config files the technical equivalent to black voodoo magic? I'd attribute the faster qmail to a

Re: Port collection missing...

2006-04-28 Thread Reid Nichol
As well, since this is your first install, I'll point out afterboot(8). Also, just FYI, 3.9 is released Monday. --- Peter Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.7/ports.tar.gz > > On 4/28/06, S t i n g r a y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well i just installed my

Re: C++ textbooks: recommendations?

2006-04-05 Thread Reid Nichol
suggested books and see which one speaks to you most. best regards, Reid Nichol --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i need to learn C++, but do not know where to begin with textbooks or > online > docs. since, AFAICT, there are a great many skilled programmers on > list, i would > apprec

Re: why is there . [dot] in default PATH?

2006-04-04 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:35:32AM +1000, Andrew Dalgleish wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:56:39PM +0100, Jon Kent wrote: > >> Can see your point here, but I prefer to play on the paranoid side > of > >> fence hence my dislike of this.

Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread Reid Nichol
I find it interesting that you didn't send this entirely condisending superior reply to the list. Now why is that? --- Matthew Weigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reid Nichol wrote: > > > I suggest at least looking into elementary number theory before > >making su

Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Jean-SC)bastien Bour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reid Nichol a icrit : > > --- Jean-So?=bastien Bour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Matthias Kilian a icrit : > >> > >>> a) 4 is the first non-prime, at least accor

Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Jean-So?=bastien Bour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthias Kilian a icrit : > > a) 4 is the first non-prime, at least according to factor(6). > > > No, it is 1 :) > Explanation : a prime number can only be divided by two different > numbers : 1 and itself. 1 can only be divided by one numb

Re: pf rdr problem [Solved]

2006-02-26 Thread Reid Nichol
ked like a charm. Next time I'll try to keep my posted rules to a minimum as requested. Thanks for the help. best regards, Reid --- Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006/02/26 14:13, Reid Nichol wrote: > > > >

pf rdr problem

2006-02-26 Thread Reid Nichol
o any flags S/SA \ keep state queue(std_out, tcp_ack_out) pass out on $ext_if inet proto { udp, icmp } all keep state queue std_out pass out on $ext_if inet proto { tcp, udp } from any to any port domain \ keep state queue(dns_out) pass out on $ext_if inet proto tcp fro

Re: manual vs. crontab execution

2006-02-26 Thread Reid Nichol
As a shot in the dark, it might have something to do with environmental variables or lack thereof. Are you sure everything is setup *exactly* the same? At any rate, that's the first thing that popped into my head. Good luck :) best regards, Reid Nichol --- Peter Bako <[EMAIL P

Re: PF problem? Connection reset, but only from behind NAT.

2006-02-19 Thread Reid Nichol
omething like this problem awhile ago. It had to do with something regarding the default max-mss values. Don't know the exact details, but changing the scrub lines to the below solved my issue, perhaps yours too. scrub in all max-mss 1452 scrub out all max-mss 1452 Hope that helps, or at l

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/2/05, Reid Nichol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- Sebastian Rother > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What is it that you wanted to accomplish? > > Just talk ;-) > I know this

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Reid Nichol
e better you can get the job done. You really should be learning both. Just start with the one that'll be more useful to you right now. What is it that you wanted to accomplish? best regards, Reid Nichol "We're in a giant car heading into a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and everybody's arguing about where they want to sit." -David Suzuki Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com

Re: Something hosing my msdos/FAT32 file system

2005-09-30 Thread Reid Nichol
e talking about it already thought I'd add in my "report." best regards, Reid Nichol --- Andreas Bihlmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to heat up this discussion even > further, BUT > > mount a FAT32 partition somewhere and > "cp /s

Re: lowering the securelevel?

2005-08-09 Thread Reid Nichol
wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:00:24PM -0700, Reid > Nichol wrote: > > In rc.securelevel there is: > > securelevel=1 > > man securelevel > > As I said in my original post, I edited the > securelevel parameter in > /etc/rc.securelevel, and rebooted, yet t

Re: lowering the securelevel?

2005-08-09 Thread Reid Nichol
e lowered > while the > system is running. However, I tried editing > /etc/rc.securelevel and > rebooting, yet the system still boots into > securelevel=1. > > Is there some other step I'm missing? > > Thanks, > Matt > > -- > Matt Garman > email a

Re: question on mounting a filesystem...

2005-08-09 Thread Reid Nichol
Perhaps that file system isn't ffs. man mount for the types of file system available and how to specify them. If not that, have you formatted/partitioned the hd's yet? best regards, Reid Nichol --- mojo fms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not seen this error before