Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-09 Thread eagirard
>On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:20:01PM +, Matthew Szudzik wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:44:08PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: >> > or, quit using firefox. it's security record is rather lousy, wouldn't >> > you agree? >> >> What alternatives to firefox do you suggest? > >On my main desktop,

RIT's mirror

2009-04-25 Thread eagirard
This may not be technically the right place to discuss a mirror, but the mirror list has no traffic since 2004. The RIT mirror is providing 4.2 sets from it's snapshots directory. Should they still be listed? -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread eagirard
Dag Richards wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 08:05:52AM -0700, Obiozor Okeke wrote: > > > Well I should have mentioned that the ESXi is also running a Windows > > > server VM \ > > > for a custom app that requires it. So the idea was to have one box > > > running ESXi \

Printing to Windows

2009-05-24 Thread eagirard
If anyone is printing successfully to an OfficeJet served on an XP box from OBSD 4.4 or later, I'd sure appreciate knowing how you do it. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL

Re: bsd.rd doesn't boot on a Lenovo Thinkstation S10

2009-06-02 Thread eagirard
> Attempting to boot my Thinkstation S10 with a cd made from > amd64/install45.iso results in > uhci3: host system error > uhci3: host controller process error > uhci3: host controller halted > The machine has a quad-core Intel processor, 4 Gb memory, 2 146 Gb SAS > drives on an LSI raid controll

Re: USB disklabel trouble

2008-10-11 Thread eagirard
Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:48:18AM -0500, Edward F. Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > | Ladies and Gentlemen: > | > | I wanted to use a 4GB thumb drive to move a complete partition from > | one system to another, and needed to get a ffs volume on it. It was >

Re: ftp from script

2008-12-31 Thread eagirard
That's good thing to know (!) Christoph Leser wrote: > Just my 1 cent on the perl script > > #!/usr/bin/perl > `cd /path-to-dir`: > `rm *`; > > will purge your working directory, not /path-to-dir, as each of the `command` > constructs is executed in a process of its own and thus has no

Re: ftp from script

2008-12-31 Thread eagirard
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Christoph Leser > wrote: > > Just my 1 cent on the perl script > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > `cd /path-to-dir`: > > `rm *`; > > > > will purge your working directory, not /path-to-dir, as each of the > > `command` > > constructs is executed in a process of its o

Re: ftp from script

2009-01-03 Thread eagirard
johan beisser wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > > > You're right. You're so right, in fact, that I'd already changed the > > code; even I noticed that my original was bad practice. > > You're doing this in perl, and not using Net::FTP? > I'm starting to

Re: iwn firmware load fails in Sony VPCCA25FX

2012-02-06 Thread eagirard
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:17:44 +0200, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: >Mihai Popescu wrote: > >> How did you install the firmware? >> >> I've run once in troubles with an iwi0 interface because I messed up >> the .tgz firmware file unpack. I never used a laptop with wireless and >> OpenBSD so I was not aw

Cannot upgrade Sony Vaio VPCCA using the amd64 RAM kernel

2012-02-16 Thread eagirard
Grabbed the 15 February snapshot, but booting bsd.rd results in this: Using drive 0, partition 3 Loading... probing: pc0 mem[634K 511M 510M 2474M 12K 1M 12K 84K 4606M a20=on] disk: hd0+ >> OpenBSD/amd64 BOOT 3.18 boot> bsd.rd booting hd0a:bsd.rd: 2986868+717388+2861496+0+504624=0xaef670 entry poin

Re: Cannot upgrade Sony Vaio VPCCA using the amd64 RAM kernel

2012-02-18 Thread eagirard
>List: openbsd-misc >Subject:Re: Cannot upgrade Sony Vaio VPCCA using the amd64 RAM kernel >From: Kenneth R Westerback >Date: 2012-02-17 14:24:19 >Message-ID: 20120217142418.GZ20102 () mac ! westerback ! ca >[Download message RAW] > >On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:18:27PM -0600,

halt -p not powering down Sony Vaio (13 Feb snapshot)

2012-02-20 Thread eagirard
halt -p clears the screen, quiets the disk, but the cpu fan runs on, the screen stays lit and the power light stays on. For hours. Have to mash the power button for aound 8 seconds to get it really shut off. apmd is enabled in rc.conf.local. Messages extract next paragraph. Dmesg below sig. Feb

Java plugin

2009-09-13 Thread eagirard
Well, I built and installed the JDK (1.7) from ports. The FAQ is correct about it's taking a long time, and it took so much space that I ended up mounting an additional partition for /usr/ports, because /usr ran out of space the first time. But the predicted (by the FAQ) message on using the p

Re: Supporting OpenBSD

2009-09-14 Thread eagirard
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote: >> Thanks to those that contribute money and buy CDs. > > I would like to buy CDs, but in Brazil these kind of products have a > high tax fee applied when they hit the harbour. For a $50 CD, I'll > probably pay almost $almost $70 to someone

fvwm will not start since 12 June snapshot

2012-06-16 Thread eagirard
Since the 12 June snapshot I have been unable to run fvwm, either from xdm or using startx. Dmesg and Xorg.log below. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL OpenBSD 5.1-current (GENERIC) #231: Tue Jun 12 18:31:26 MDT 2012 t...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: In

Re: Following -current through a semi-automatic process: a strategy for encouraging user involvement?

2012-06-19 Thread eagirard
At 2012-06-20 0:00:21, Tony Sidaway wrote: Summary: I want to turn my main system into a semi-automatic follower of "-current" and I think this strategy may useful to the project. Is this something that is already being done? My rationale here is that it's a good thing for OpenBSD users who have

panic on 2 October and 3 October snapshots

2010-10-03 Thread eagirard
I installed the 2 October snapshot yesterday, and after the reboot got a panic. I booted again from the RAMdisk kernel, point to the 3 October snaphot and ignored the hash mismatch, and panicked again. Trace and ps for each below. -- Ed Ahlsen-Girard Ft. Walton Beach FL trace for 2 October snap

Re: panic on 2 October and 3 October snapshots

2010-10-03 Thread eagirard
> Subject:Re: panic on 2 October and 3 October snapshots > From: Theo de Raadt > Date: 2010-10-03 19:24:19 > Message-ID: 201010031924.o93JOJb1029879 () cvs ! openbsd ! org > [Download message RAW] > > > > I installed the 2 October snapshot yesterday, and after the reboot got a >

Re: panic on 2 October and 3 October snapshots

2010-10-03 Thread eagirard
Updated. I very rarely install the last couple of years. Tobias Ulmer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 01:35:06PM -0500, eagir...@cox.net wrote: > > I installed the 2 October snapshot yesterday, and after the reboot got a > > panic. > > You "installed"? Not "updated"? > > > > > I boote

Re: i386 and amd64 snapshots - kernel SHA256 mismatch

2010-10-16 Thread eagirard
> From: Theo de Raadt > Date: 2010-10-16 0:29:52 > > >I should have actually shown how much was mismatched...and it's more than > >just the kernel: > > ---(fine details > > skipped)-- > >JC Choisy(tin...@tinono.com)@Fri, Oct 15, 20