Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
ou don't want it, by all means cp -Rp src dst Or, if the copy is going on your 10Mbit network, use that old tar on one end and untar on the other trick. Sorry I can't elaborate, but I use rsync. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-27 Thread Steve Litt
Anon Loli said on Thu, 27 Jun 2024 04:12:57 + >On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 11:34:02PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> Anon Loli said on Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:17:35 + >> But wait. Unless that "other drive" is somehow hotpluggable (like >> USB), you'll need to

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
important. Get the disk image, as a file that can be loop-mounted, on at least one known good drive, and go on from there. Keep that borked DVD in a box somewhere for the next year when you finally power down the machine. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
k. >By the way it might be my imagination, but I think that the primary >USED size was bigger like 24 hours ago (more than 220G), but I might >just be seeing things ? By the way, you'll still have a challenge restoring the files from the encrypted device image of the borked drive. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-25 Thread Steve Litt
which becomes your backup preventing another disaster. 12. Take regular backups so this doesn't happen again. The preceding procedure should take you a few hours, especially given the fact that you have two computers so can be formatting and encrypting with one while backing up the other. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: accidentally overwritten wrong drive with DD, please help

2024-06-24 Thread Steve Litt
s, and don't get fancy until you have a copy of your files AND a backup of the copy of those files. Then you can treat the copy like a backup and copy them back. Seriously, priorities. Prioritize getting those files back, and don't let anything complicate that task. Don't skip steps. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com

Re: Bash instead of ksh

2024-04-02 Thread Steve Litt
hat are supposed to be compatible with BSD: [*] loksh-7.3_1 Linux port of OpenBSD's ksh [-] oksh-7.4_1Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell Other Linux distros offer other ksh equivalencies. In my opinion any of the

Does anyone know whether this hardware runs OpenBSD?

2024-03-25 Thread Steve Litt
Does anyone know whether this hardware runs OpenBSD? https://www.walmart.com/ip/MeLE-Quieter3Q-Fanless-Mini-PC-N5105-Windows-11-8GB-256GB-4K-UHD-Wifi-6-Mini-Desktop-Computer-New/2177929669 Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http

Re: desire for journaled filesystem

2023-09-07 Thread Steve Litt
My main computer is Void Linux. If I had to restore from backup every time the disks became mildly messed up, all my time would be spent backing up and restoring. I remember back in the 90's and early 00's before journalling every system crash was grounds for an ulcer. I didn't know that the main

Re: OpenBSD vs Docker and Linux: Deploying Ruby on Rails in Production

2023-08-29 Thread Steve Litt
k or criticism would be greatly appreciated! How would your evaluation change if one used s6 as their init or at least as their daemon manager? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Feedback on redesigned OpenBSD.org

2023-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
I still haven't revert >to >all of the openbsd.org colors) I could argue either side of the "multiple colors are more distracting than helpful" topic. By the way, in the V2 left side link list, topic headings "OpenBSD Resources" and "Supporting OpenBSD" come out of the gray and into the white. This is an absolute no-no, requiring an increase in the width of the div for the left hand link list. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: Feedback on redesigned OpenBSD.org

2023-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
hing their visual acuity. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: Feedback on redesigned OpenBSD.org

2023-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
If this is true, I'd recommend putting the size and exact typeface in the hands of the user's browser settings, to accommodate users of all varying visual abilities and preferences. If you follow this advice, please don't change your specifying sans-serif and your already perfect lin

Re: Installing openBSD

2023-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
he EFI partition isn't all that big, so if you later don't need it, you're not wasting much room. As you know, the MBR/EFI legacy/EFI decision for the motherboard is done in the bios. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: Upgrade: Unbound constraint let fw_update always fail

2023-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
an empty message to supervision-subscr...@list.skarnet.org. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: Upgrade: Unbound constraint let fw_update always fail

2023-07-25 Thread Steve Litt
-i resolv.conf && echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 >> resolv.conf && chattr +i resolv.conf I also don't understand why you start unbound manually instead of from computer initialization. It sounds like if unbound started before fw_update, there would be no problem. SteveT Steve

Re: "ticking" noise when recording audio

2023-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
te, I pasted the wrong aucat command >I ran. It should be > >$ aucat -f snd/1 -o - | aucat -i - >or >$ aucat -f snd/1 -o output.wav I played output.wav with vlc on Void Linux and heard the ticking and nothing but the ticking. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: T

Re: happy birthday theo de raadt

2023-05-19 Thread Steve Litt
Mayuresh Kathe said on Fri, 19 May 2023 08:57:18 GMT >hey theo, >wish you a very happy birthday. >hope you have an interesting year ahead. >and hope everybody out here "only" wish theo instead of >also going off at a tangent and creating a mess. >-mayuresh > Happy

Re: A messed-up fresh install due to a careless user

2023-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
up pf.conf to let through what you need. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Simple PF Router/Firewall/NAT requirements: was Performance optimizing OpenBSD 7.2

2023-02-15 Thread Steve Litt
Internet is about 26Mbit down and 3.5Mbit up. Do you think I'll need to worry about state limits, states or state-mismatches? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: OpenBSD, PHP lifecycle and PHP 8.1 broken compatibility

2023-02-15 Thread Steve Litt
Daniele Bonini said on Wed, 15 Feb 2023 21:27:23 +0100 >I was trying different options like an OS, and my focus >went on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I've never been able to get FreeBSD or NetBSD or Dragonfly running. OpenBSD was easy and very stable. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 fe

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

2023-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
on't know how it handles them. > >If you are using "original" rsync, try with -S flag. Yes. Other similar things to look at are hard links (-H), various symlink options, --one-file-system (I know df doesn't follow symlinked mounts), etc. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Crystal Kolipe

2023-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
you'll find my reply very constructive. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

Re: Locking network card configuration

2022-11-20 Thread Steve Litt
Theo de Raadt said on Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:35:22 -0700 >Steve Litt wrote: > >> Vitaliy Makkoveev said on Mon, 21 Nov 2022 03:48:21 +0300 >> >> >> On 20 Nov 2022, at 18:06, Odd Martin Baanrud >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hel

Re: Locking network card configuration

2022-11-20 Thread Steve Litt
ance, $lan contains the network card name of the LAN one, and $wan contains the network name of the one going to the Internet. Unfortunately, this would probably mean changing a lot of existing shellscripts, but it's doable. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm

pf documentation

2022-04-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I need some easy beginner's pf documentation as well as some intermediate pf documentation. I plan to make an OpenBSD/pf firewall. I haven't done this in ten years, and imagine pf and the process of turning OpenBSD into a firewall have changed in that time. Thanks, SteveT

Re: Is it true that `dd` is almost not needed?

2021-12-11 Thread Steve Litt
rmal player. ddrescue is the standard way to recover date from disks with lots of bad sectors. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Default window manager

2021-11-28 Thread Steve Litt
cent window decorations >* Can be controlled with both the pointer and the > keyboard >* Simple, minimal configuration that fits with the > rest of OpenBSD >What do you think? I'd leave well enough alone. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Remote wipe software

2021-04-27 Thread Steve Litt
scenario If you employ a dead man's switch like you describe above, you really should back up that machine every single day. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Unbound Configuration

2020-07-10 Thread Steve Litt
ng the instructions below that section. SteveT Steve Litt May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: GNU+Linux corporate takeover, was: Wine for OpenBSD?

2020-04-14 Thread Steve Litt
gt; > It is modular to a degree, but separating services requires a bit of Here's the degree to which systemd is modular: http://troubleshooters.com/linux/systemd/lol_systemd.htm SteveT Steve Litt March 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

Re: Cannot start conversation using talk

2020-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
e entry look like? Should the hostname point > > to 0.0.0.0? > > It should point to 127.0.0.1 Could it also point to the net address of the computer, like 192.168.100.2? I ask because I might let others talk via my talk server. SteveT Steve Litt February 2020 featured book: Thri

Re: Cannot start conversation using talk

2020-02-21 Thread Steve Litt
type = dgram wait= yes user= root server = /usr/bin/talkd log_on_failure += USERID disable = no } ==== SteveT Steve L

Re: OpenBSD's extremely poor network/disk performance?

2020-01-08 Thread Steve Litt
lower than Linux, perhaps in most situations disk caching makes the difference negligible. If you really want to see an OS with slow disks that dramatically slow down the whole system, get yourself a copy of OpenSolaris and load it on a PC. Very nice, very stable, but everything takes 4 times as long.

Re: dhcpd and unbound on a small LAN

2020-01-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 09:51:55 -0500 Sonic wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:35 AM Steve Litt > wrote: > > I need something like that for my situation. Two questions: > > > > 1) Does the preceding setup prevent anyone with a different mac > > address from getting 192.

Re: dhcpd and unbound on a small LAN

2020-01-06 Thread Steve Litt
the street from getting a lease: If I don't know the person and machine ahead of time, I don't want them getting a lease. *** I presume one way is to set aside just enough IP addresses to cover known mac addresses. I was wondering if there's a way that involves less arithmetic.

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Steve Litt
companied by code and that don’t solve > obvious problems don’t seem to be received very well. Apologies if > that wasn’t within bounds. What if the OP had instead of the suggestion submitted two or three Lua scripts to replace two or three Perl scripts? Would you still have the same opinio

Re: Adaptive main page for openbsd website.

2019-12-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:22:16 -0500 Chris Bennett wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 04:44:11PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:25:00 +0300 > > v...@vtsoft.dev wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > The main page of o

Re: Adaptive main page for openbsd website.

2019-12-22 Thread Steve Litt
t big screen sizes, but at a certain point collapse it and replace with something else: Perhaps your current bottom array of boxes with a link to them on top. What's going to be a bigger challenge is doing this to pages containing or . I've never been able to get those to fold, and ev

Re: Softdep and noatime

2019-12-01 Thread Steve Litt
say about this, but I mount everything as > noatime, since more than a decade, spinning or not. I assume this may > make lifetime a bit longer and decided it is better to be on safe(r) > side. > I mount everything noatime because I don't care at all about access time, I care about mod

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
including your VM goes to hell you can still restore. I just bought a 5TB USB drive for $99 at Costco. SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: Best Practices for growing disk partitions on a server

2019-11-19 Thread Steve Litt
u have free space at the end of > the disk, after what you'd want to grow /home into, you can make a > new partition there, copy the files, and leave the former /usr > partition empty. But it's quite delicate work and is often easier to > reinstall. In OpenBSD is there such a thing as a bind mount like they have in Linux? SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-08 Thread Steve Litt
onverter requires you to create an empty doc with the correct headings, etc, the correct document preamble, and the final \bye. Doing the same thing for XHTML is trivial. SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
different, I'd have to search out all the people, instead of changing one line of CSS or one line of LaTeX. Based on my hour or so research, I don't understand how mdoc(7) would be a good authoring format for anything but the simplest book length document. If I'm wrong, I might

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
e a presentation instead of a man page? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 09:07:13 + Yon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 02:27:38AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > I'm not sure, but I think if you write with a certain subset of > > TeX, it would be fairly easy to write a program to convert it to > > XHTML5, from which yo

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
Texlive is great if you're certain your output will be now and forever only in PDF format. If you can even conceive of it being ePub or some other lineflow reading format, Texlive and all the TeX/LaTeX tools dead-end you. SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager'

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
this for more than 40 years when > creating documents, reports and such for work. So after writing the whole thing, you're going to go back and insert some sorts of codes for backstory paragraphs, emphasis, dialog, and various other styles? How are you going to get word-wrap right? I know it's possible with novels, but it takes some pretty good writing skills to do so. And I'll go out on a limb and say it's impossible with a technical book. SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
7;m not sure, but I think if you write with a certain subset of TeX, it would be fairly easy to write a program to convert it to XHTML5, from which you can pretty easily create ePubs. Plain TeX as made by Knuth is indeed simple for all simple things, and doable for more complicated things. SteveT S

Re: Tools for writers

2019-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
- > > > Oliver Leaver-Smith > > > +44(0)114-360-1337 > > > TZ=Europe/London > > > > > > > /usr/bin/vi > > You obviously never wrote a book. > At least not with the requirements OP asked for. I know what you mean and you're right to a d

Re: Future of X.org?

2019-07-08 Thread Steve Litt
safe enough to use in OpenBSD, fine, include it. But those who call for X11's removal are just asking for trouble like the 2012-2015 systemd wars that plagued Linux and which OpenBSD avoided. SteveT Steve Litt July 2019 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: mandoc for report writing?

2019-06-20 Thread Steve Litt
7;ve heard (and this could be BS) that once you get to Markdown format, you can use Pandoc to convert that Markdown to pretty much any format you want. I don't know how true that is, or what kind of compromises you'd need to make with your control over output formatting. The OP is doing

Re: Puffy — format SVG (actually!)

2019-06-15 Thread Steve Litt
;t give you permission to use a likeness of me. :-) SteveT Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 10 May 2019 23:32:18 +0200 ropers wrote: > On 08/05/2019, Steve Litt wrote: > > ...you'd better crank way up on its fonts. Fvwm fonts > > are so small that if you have bad vision, you can't read the screen > > well enough to increase the font siz

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 10 May 2019 23:32:18 +0200 ropers wrote: > On 08/05/2019, Steve Litt wrote: > > ...you'd better crank way up on its fonts. Fvwm fonts > > are so small that if you have bad vision, you can't read the screen > > well enough to increase the font siz

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 8 May 2019 22:43:00 -0400 Charles wrote: > I'd like to chime in here, on a slightly different subject. > > I think the OP (Clark) raises a point, but I suggest he's coming it > from the wrong angle. I think there's something here to discuss that I > have not seen mentioned in this thread

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-08 Thread Steve Litt
If you do that, you'd better crank way up on its fonts. Fvwm fonts are so small that if you have bad vision, you can't read the screen well enough to increase the font size. It's easy for a well-sighted person to reduce fonts, but for the poorly sighted person who can't read the screen in the

How I use dmenu

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I use dmenu on Void Linux but from what I understand, it works the same on OpenBSD. Suckless Tools' dmenu is what I use to launch graphical applications. Here's how I run dmenu for this purpose: dmenu_run -i -l 32 -fn "7x14" -nf yellow -nb black -sf black -sb white The -i means case i

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 8 May 2019 00:23:09 +0200 ropers wrote: > Tangentially related: Does anyone here routinely use the default fvwm? > > Now for a really noobish question: Those that do, do you also launch > graphical apps by typing something like this in xterm: > > $ firefox > /dev/null 2>&1 & > > or do

dmenu: was When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 07 May 2019 14:47:15 -0500 Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > I use dwm on everything so my desktop experience is the same > everywhere. Just the man I want to talk to. Do you have dmenu running on OpenBSD? Did you need to make adjustments for ksh instead of sh or any other property of OpenBSD?

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 May 2019 14:45:34 -0300 Clark Block wrote: > Was developed the Isotop: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/8of042/isotop_french_desktoporiented_openbsd_distro/ > > https://3hg.fr/Isos/isotop/ > > The Isotop is really a user-friendly and easy-to-use > variant of OpenBSD or is f

Re: When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?

2019-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 7 May 2019 02:01:34 -0300 Clark Block wrote: > In 2019 still there is not a great desktop experience for NetBSD. > However, the new "OS108" is seeking to improve this with a NetBSD > operating system paired with the MATE desktop environment. > So, OS108, a derivative of NetBSD, has just b

Re: Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:10:39 +0200 Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:32:26PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > | > $ python3 cidr_calc.py.txt > | > 2a02:8011:7003:1:fab1:56ff:feac:3276/64 > | > > | > IP address (2a02:8011:7003:1:fab1:

Re: Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
w the name of their Python3 executable. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:28:09 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2018-09-11, Steve Litt wrote: > > I've created a downloadable CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) > > network calculator, whose sole dependency is Python3. It runs in any > > terminal or termina

Downloadable CIDR network calculator

2018-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I've created a downloadable CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) network calculator, whose sole dependency is Python3. It runs in any terminal or terminal emulator on any Linux or presumably BSD machine. http://troubleshooters.com/linux/cidr_calc.htm SteveT Steve Litt September

Re: Employers, Jobs and OpenBSD

2018-07-16 Thread Steve Litt
penBSD? One reason is so that if the corporate powers succeed in making GNU/Linux into systemd/linux, I have a place to go for a simple, DIY OS I can bend to my workflow instead of bending my workflow to Poettering's vision. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://

Re: How to copy n bytes from stdin to stdout?

2018-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 10:06:40 -0700 xi wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2018, at 16:19, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 10:53:37PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:56:04 +0200 > >> Tomasz Rola wrote: > >> > &

Re: How to copy n bytes from stdin to stdout?

2018-06-24 Thread Steve Litt
rkill in this century. As far as finding command line tools that do it, if that's becoming hard to do, why not just write a 10 line program? -- SteveT Steve Litt June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28

Re: considering a move to OpenBSD

2018-02-08 Thread Steve Litt
ystemd init system/OS controller/Desktop aid. It's such a mess that nobody's ever been able to draw its block diagram, complete with boxes and arrows. My main OS right now is Void Linux, but when I used OpenBSD I was impressed with how everything worked exactly the same, every sing

Re: vmm support for QEMU possible (planned)?

2018-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
> > > Does somebody have any results with it? > > > > Thank you for answer in advance. > > > > Denis > > > > Someone was working on that but the work got stalled. > > -ml > What can I do with QEMU + vmm that I can't do with vmm alo

Re: OpenBSD and virtual machines

2018-01-09 Thread Steve Litt
turned out to be a font thing I fixed by using equivalent fonts. But the point is, there's always THAT piece of software that can't run on a given OS, but you need it. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: OpenBSD and virtual machines

2018-01-08 Thread Steve Litt
I used Void Linux I ran LyX on a Ubuntu VM to compile my books. If this new VM system comprised of vmd and vmm and vmctl does what qemu does AND implements the machine's hardware to do normal hardware processing to attain reasonable speeds, then I have an excellent alternative. So, does thi

Re: What would you like to see in upcoming PF tutorials?

2017-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
lf, $int_if:network } There are many other places needing explanations. If you could include a few diagrams to make the point, that would help immensely. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: TRIM on SSD

2017-12-06 Thread Steve Litt
ust plain unhappiness attracting. If everybody piped him to /dev/null, nobody would be confronted with his 1 line, 1000 word verbiage in quoted text, his useless profanity, or his disrespect of a great Free Software project. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: lpr duplex printing

2017-01-10 Thread Steve Litt
print duplex, the other doesn't. So when I do: lpr -P lp_oneside myfile my file is printed one sided, but when I: lpr -P lp_duplex myfile my file is printed on both sides. SteveT Steve Litt December 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21

Re: META: Does this list have no moderators?

2016-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
to anyone, because nobody's listening. And then, likely as not, he'll take his obnoxo-talk to a different list. I wrote about this subject at http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/init/killfile.htm SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

Re: Recording computer sound.

2016-04-08 Thread Steve Litt
Whoops. I didn't look at the mailing list name, and thought I was reading at a Linux mailing list. Perhaps that's why the OpenBSD form of the command didn't work on Void Linux :-) SteveT Steve Litt April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.trou

Re: Recording computer sound.

2016-04-08 Thread Steve Litt
, midi/0, rmidi/0, aucat aborts saying "couldn't open audio device". If anyone knows the secret sauce, please let me know. I was playing a Youtube song, easily listenable on my speakers, while I did the aucat commands. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learni

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

2016-03-29 Thread Steve Litt
another computer plus minicom, but minicom itself introduces so many variables it's not worth it. SteveT Steve Litt March 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: How to tune network on Qemu-system-i386

2016-02-17 Thread Steve Litt
t; > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong > > against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD > >and proprietary/ \http://www.mutt.org > > attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! > > Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04 > > > > > -- SteveT Steve Litt February 2016 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key

Re: Is true that the BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them?

2016-02-17 Thread Steve Litt
itmus test of repudiating Linux? SteveT On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:31:04 + Gareth Nelson wrote: > I'm also a big GNU/Linux fan, but I can understand the frustration of > people who constantly give credit to others for their work. > > The GNU project did not inspire BSD. > >

Re: Is true that the BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them?

2016-02-17 Thread Steve Litt
at Linux and BSD can often solve the same set of problems. Nobody ever calls anyone else a BSD douche bag. We like BSD and its community. Until you posted this, nobody in this thread said bad things about Linux or its users. Tough day? By the way, you spelled douchebag wrong: It has no spaces. Stev

Re: BIOS call fallback

2015-12-21 Thread Steve Litt
t;screw you, we're changing it yet again, get with the program." In Linux, most distributions are now making sure there's "no legacy baggage" in their new, systemd equipped monoliths. SteveT Steve Litt November 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: LPR/LPD does not run filters

2015-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
prompt, experiment with different options to the lpd command. In your description, you say input filters are never executed, and later says that you never seethe "printcanon called". If you ever see "printbrother called", then you can exploit the differences by changing the two

Re: Windows Server on Qemu

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
versions later. > > -ml > The last I heard was that OpenBSD didn's support hardware accelerated Qemu and probably never would. Has this changed? SteveT Steve Litt August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust

Re: Is lack of a prompt in shell after building the kernel bad news?

2015-08-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:13:36 +0300 Mihai Popescu wrote: > Joel, what the hell are you doing? Answering your own email and > quoting your own words. For what purpose? > Somebody told you that what you have is OUT OF SYNC, and gave you some > clear instructions to fix this? > > What are you doing?

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Steve Litt
;. Until then, using that epithet simply dilutes what the real nazis did. But yes, equating kiddie porn with Eastern Europe is subcontent wide character assassination, and is wrong. SteveT Steve Litt May 2015 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: jwm ; speedy window manager

2015-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
nd release > > is challenge enough. > > Yeah, I need to make time to experiment and learn better ways to do > things, too. > I'm *extremely* pleased with Openbox with customized hotkeys, including a hotkey for dmenu. Please note that Openbox is not the slightest bit useful unless and until you make customized keystrokes and make a 6 pixel margin on the left so you can always click the desktop. SteveT Steve Litt Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28

Re: What happens to OpenBSD when Secure Boot becomes manditory?

2015-04-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:47:59 -0600 "Todd C. Miller" wrote: > On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 16:38:29 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > What happens to OpenBSD when Secure Boot becomes manditory? > > Please read those articles again, "Secure Boot" is *not* mandatory

What happens to OpenBSD when Secure Boot becomes manditory?

2015-04-02 Thread Steve Litt
-mandatory-locks-out-other-operating-systems http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/operating-systems/microsoft-s-windows-10-secure-boot-ruling-spells-trouble-for-linux-lovers-dual-booters-1289096 SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: I found a sort bug! - How to sort big files?

2015-03-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:58:56 +1300 worik wrote: > On 16/03/15 06:43, Steve Litt wrote: > > But IMHO, sorting 60megalines isn't something I would expect a > > generic sort command to easily and timely do out of the box. > > I would. These days such files are ge

Re: I found a sort bug! - How to sort big files?

2015-03-15 Thread Steve Litt
o run through the sorted list of numbers and line numbers, and write the original file by line number. There are probably a thousand other ways to do it. But IMHO, sorting 60megalines isn't something I would expect a generic sort command to easily and timely do out of the box. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Is there a daemon rollcall tool?

2015-01-31 Thread Steve Litt
meters could specify the daemon name and > the commands that the rollcall tool would look up. I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but if you haven't already, have a look at Avery Payne's Supervision-Scripts: https://bitbucket.org/avery_payne/supervision-scripts SteveT Steve

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2014-12-22 Thread Steve Litt
at and examine your computer, including the disk. Start ruling out sections of the root cause scope, and pretty soon you'll know the exact root cause. By the way, I think System Rescue CD has SMART programs, so you can see whether your hard disk is damaged, or just has lost its f

Re: OpenBSD Trademark Policy

2014-12-07 Thread Steve Litt
erself. I'd imagine that you'd need some pretty good lawyers spending a lot of time to trademark "Radio" for almost any purpose. I spoze theoretically you could trademark Radio brand dog food, but it wouldn't be easy. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: rc.local and rc.conf.local

2014-10-28 Thread Steve Litt
at boot time. Typically you would only use this for > executing system-specific commands to initialize non-packaged > software that you've compiled yourself. I think I understand. If I wanted to run daemontools at boot, I would put the svscanboot command in /etc/rc.local, rig

Re: rc.local and rc.conf.local

2014-10-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:09:33 -0400 Josh Grosse wrote: > On 2014-10-28 09:46, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Is /etc/rc.local just some artifact I should ignore, or does it > > actually have a purpose? > > It has a purpose. Some local startup activities may require > scri

rc.local and rc.conf.local

2014-10-28 Thread Steve Litt
put it there, and no joy, dhcpd didn't start on boot. So I made an rc.conf.local, put that line in the new file, and bang, it started on boot. Is /etc/rc.local just some artifact I should ignore, or does it actually have a purpose? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.

Re: 5.6 arrived

2014-10-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:21:15 +0100 Maurice McCarthy wrote: > OpenBSD 5.6 arrived Swansea UK today, 24 Oct 2014. > So does this mean I should download and install 5.6 to power my OpenBSD/pf firewall/NAT/router? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshoote

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