Re: [OT] developers running -current on laptops

2008-05-23 Thread Steve McConville
Kind of genetic programming without all the AI fluff ;-) I like that ;) Yet we have tape backups of everything.. That's the fossil record. -- steev http://www.daikaiju.org.uk/~steve/

Re: Watching the prgress of dd if=drive1 of=drive2

2008-02-23 Thread Steve McConville
On 23/02/2008, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using dd to clone a drive. How can I watch the progress of this or see the transfer rate in real time? Try sending it a SIGINFO (as it says in the man page). -- steev http://www.daikaiju.org.uk/~steve/

Re: sign and timestamp

2007-10-03 Thread Steve McConville
I don't know if there's an accepted strategy, but if I had to create one from scratch, off the top of my head I'm thinking some time of time server. It would have to publish a signed file of the current time, say once per minute, so that you could include the hash in the above noted tarball.

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-14 Thread Steve McConville
Anyway, a while later he comes back and says, It's done! I couldn't believe how easy it was. This mirrors my (linux-coloured) experience of trying an OpenBSD install for the first time. -- steev http://www.daikaiju.org.uk/~steve/