Re: Documentation of wsconsctl keyboard.map format?

2022-11-26 Thread unix
On 2022-11-25 05:32, Mike Fischer wrote: Am 24.11.2022 um 15:07 schrieb u...@disroot.org: Hello! I would like to find some supporting documentation too, if anything is available, but for certain other reasons (https://github.com/letoram/arcan/issues/263). Basically, this "desktop engine" ha

Re: Documentation of wsconsctl keyboard.map format?

2022-11-24 Thread unix
On 2022-11-23 02:21, Mike Fischer wrote: > Am 23.11.2022 um 11:43 schrieb Vlad Meșco : > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 06:57:17AM +, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 12:21:26AM +0100, Mike Fischer wrote: > > > keyboard.encoding=us > keyboard.map+="keysym Caps_Lock = Control

Re: Qt6 and XCB plugin missing

2022-09-18 Thread unix
On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 12:22:20 - (UTC) Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2022-09-17, S V wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I noticed that Qt6 from packages and ports missing xcb plugin (in > > qtbase), but Qt5 has it. > > That's this file, isn't it? > > $ pkglocate XcbQpa.so > qt6-qtbase-6.3.1p0:x11/qt

Is there a public to-do list for the project as a whole?

2022-09-18 Thread unix
As a new contributor, I wonder, is there a unified list of things that should be fixed/(re)written/ported? I read the FAQ and surfed around the CVS sources, but can't find anything that resembles what I imagine this to be. So far I noticed several things people tend to complain about on the mailing

Re: A minimal browser in base

2022-09-18 Thread unix
On Sat, 10 Sep 2022 21:04:54 +0300 unix wrote: > Hello. My reasons for this proposition: > 1. The user will be able to test basic websites without installing > anything. > 2. The user will be able to read an incredibly useful official > FAQ, with no external devices involved. >

cups on 5.2

2013-01-23 Thread unix
Hello guys. CUPS : A few months before, I run on OpenBSD 5.1 and all is running perfectly. Two months ago, I upgrade my OS to 5.2 and since it's impossible to install my old Epson Stylus Photo EX. On 5.1 I've installed : - cups - foomatic-db-gutenprint (meta package) and it's run perfectly On 5

Re: Vulnerability Note VU#800113 - Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning

2008-07-09 Thread Unix Fan
Why haven't the developers posted a formal annoncement clearifing if the distributed BIND is vulnerable? If so, where the hell is the patch? -Nix Fan.

Re: Proliferation of .serverauth.??? files.

2008-07-06 Thread Unix Fan
Edd Barrett wrote: > I don't see a patch attached... The line numbers were related to the startx script in 4.3... I guess that it's autogenerated? Go to line 207 in revision 1.7 of xenocara/app/xinit/startx.cpp: Are you ready yet? Replace: xserverauthfile=$HOME/.serverauth.$$ Wit

Proliferation of .serverauth.??? files.

2008-07-05 Thread Unix Fan
Greets, In a number of Linux distributions the bug has been fixed, but it remains in OpenBSD... Why? If you start Xorg using the startx script, and shutdown suddenly, those little buggers multiply. So, how about we make that little block of code on line 107 do something useful? Ho

Re: enable uvideo(4)

2008-06-13 Thread Unix Fan
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/#footnote-4 {"iSight webcams require a proprietary firmware that can't be redistributed. Tools to extract the firmware from the MacOS X driver and load it into the device are available at http://bersace03.free.fr/ift/."} -Nix Fan.

Re: captivating window manager

2008-06-12 Thread Unix Fan
fluxbux > cwm. Seriously, cwm can't even compete with fluxy... cwm is for people for people who seem to forget their using X. Get the drift? :D

Re: Are there any Open Source / Free Software vt220 / vt320 / vt400 terminal emulators out there?

2008-06-09 Thread Unix Fan
Christian Weisgerber wrote: > The best VT220 emulator is the underappreciated xterm(1). The s/underappreciated/under appreciated terminal know as "xterm", would be more appreciated if they modernized it a little... Anyone who peddles a terminal emulator without pseudo transparency should be l

Re: gnats

2008-05-25 Thread Unix Fan
Pieter Verberne wrote: > Sorry for being offtopic: What does -f mean? (I see those 'options' more > often in mails). It's his signature, his name is frantisek, thus he signs his messages using the first letter of his name.. not unusual, but not very identifying.. I sign my messages too.. ;

Re: security fixes for packages

2008-05-13 Thread Unix Fan
LEFIEUX Morgan wrote: > i was looking at this page http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable.html and > would like to know why there is no security fixes for packages after 4.1 > release ? The developers don't care about your security. This topic has been done to death, developer incompetence wa

Re: aucat(1) recording with AU/WAV support

2008-05-09 Thread Unix Fan
Tim Wiess wrote: > I was originally thinking in a different mindset. Yeah, The Unix philosophy... OpenBSD isn't Unix, but Theo is a douche. :-) -Nix Fan.

Re: Just for info and for dreaming :-) Vaio UX and OpenBSD

2008-05-06 Thread Unix Fan
Mark Mathias wrote: > Actually, I have seen one of those running OpenBSD, I'm just not sure how > many of its extra features are actually supported. Seriously? Does anyone have a dmesg of this machine? *drools* :-) -Nix Fan.

Re: 4.2 wget package depend broken?

2008-04-26 Thread Unix Fan
No it's not you arrogant mutt, it sounds to me, like you haven't installed xbase42.. wget needs gettext, guess where it is? ;) 4.3 has it in base.tgz, please keep informed... -Nix Fan.

Re: Upgrading 4.1->4.3

2008-04-23 Thread Unix Fan
Damon McMahon wrote: > I have read through upgrade43.html and just want to make sure that I can > upgrade 4.1->4.2, skip the "Upgrading packages" step and then > upgrade > 4.2->4.3 without having to install xbase? http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade43.html wrote: > Note: Upgrades are only suppo

Bad aperture size reported? (agp..)

2008-04-23 Thread Unix Fan
Hello, Seeing how OpenBSD 4.3 is due out "officially" soon, I decided to try it out on one of my older AMD systems: I'm noting an unusual problem though, agp0 is showing an unusual large aperture size, I only have a 32M card, and 32M is selected in the BIOS. ~SNIP~ pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 f

Re: Crash with acpi enabled

2008-04-19 Thread Unix Fan
Steve Shockley wrote: > No problem. Presumably acpidump will work on a kernel with acpi disabled? Yes, The command opens /dev/mem and dump the raw ACPI tables... -Nix Fan.

Re: install42.iso hangs....any ideas?

2008-04-16 Thread Unix Fan
Hannah Schroeter wrote: > (Please wrap your lines) I cannot, the Webmail provider formats it out.. I believe it's sending the email as MIME, it is out of my control - deal with it. Hannah Schroeter wrote: > IIRC not, I have a DVD-RAM drive and it probes as cd(4), not as sd(4). Why is ev

Re: install42.iso hangs....any ideas?

2008-04-16 Thread Unix Fan
Matthew Szudzik wrote: > I have successfully read and written several DVDs and CDs using OpenBSD, > following the instructions at > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html That was not what I was talking about, I "know" how to burn CD/DVD's, obviously, I was asking of DVD-RAM drives/disks can

Re: install42.iso hangs....any ideas?

2008-04-15 Thread Unix Fan
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but it brings up an interesting question.. How well does OpenBSD support DVD-RAM drives? does the cd(4) driver support read/write operations? - i.e: Would it be possible to use it as a normal block device? Again, sorry for hijacking.. unfortunately, I'm not

Chatting with developers? Is it soo 1996?

2008-04-15 Thread Unix Fan
I found an old email on the mailing lists, dating back to 1996, when Theo announced users could connect and chat with the developers on their ICB server. I'm wondering, when did it go private? Why can't users join and chat.. or idle.. and watch OpenBSD development as it takes place, are there

Re: 4.3 song and lyrics and commentary

2008-04-11 Thread Unix Fan
nimmermehr wrote: > By the way, Puffy lost his clothes when he left the ship ;) Wheee, Puffy nudity!! ;) ;) -Nix Fan.

Re: Problems reading audio cdrom on 4.2 sparc64

2008-04-09 Thread Unix Fan
You can't mount an audio CD-ROM, it simply has an audio track, no data track. If you want to dump the contents into PCM audio, look in the ports.. install "cdrtools" and use the "cdda2wav" application. -Nix Fan.

Re: OOT: Read hardisk Mac OS on Openbsd

2008-04-09 Thread Unix Fan
Well, There is /usr/ports/misc/hfsplus - but it's marked as being for PowerPC architectures only... HFS+ is used on Intel Macs now though IIRC. Search the ports tree before firing off an email next time, or use Google.. ;) http://openports.se/misc/hfsplus -Nix Fan.

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-07 Thread Unix Fan
Stuart Henderson wrote: > .. > You do realise that with your abrasive posts, you're pissing off > the very people you're "suggesting" do the work, right? Yes, I "realise" that, and I'm not trying to offend...intentionally.. *sigh*... I'll stop posting, the developers have already made it

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-07 Thread Unix Fan
Devin Smith wrote: > Why not use Dillo? Fast, light weight. If your site doesn't work > in Dillo, why not make it work? http://www.openbsd.org renders in > it. > > You're welcome to submit patches to the dillo team. Because it's the worlds must lamest browser, next to lynx of coarse. No

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-07 Thread Unix Fan
Nick Templeton wrote: > Didn't you participate in this flamefest already: > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119750317632017&w=2 > > You already know the reasons for this. > > -Nick Why yes, it would seem I did previously participate in an almost identical discussion... the things you

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-07 Thread Unix Fan
Jacob Meuser wrote: > or, quit using firefox. it's security record is rather lousy, wouldn't > you agree? That's a stupid outlook on things... 2.0.0.6 was released in July, that's a hell of a long time between April, exploits in depencies are bound to show up in that time frame. OpenBSD

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-07 Thread Unix Fan
I back ported Firefox 2.0.0.12 to OpenBSD 4.2+patches, I can't believe the OpenBSD team is letting people use the insecure 2.0.0.6 version, "We believe in security" my ass. OpenBSD 4.3 will have 2.0.0.12, unfortunately 2.0.0.13 is out, and that fixes yet another security problem... so, manual

Re: Verify authenticity of installation files on mirrors?

2008-04-06 Thread Unix Fan
Philipp Winter wrote: > Hi, > > I did not find a file on the OpenBSD mirrors which contains a digital > signature for the 'MD5' files which are placed in the platform specific > directories (e.g.: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/i386/). > > Is there no way to verify the authenticity

Re: Can't boot Dell Inspiron 530

2008-04-06 Thread Unix Fan
OpenBSD 4.3 is due out on May 1st, a lot of changes have happened in 5 months.. perhaps you should wait for the 4.3 release, or try a snapshot from your local mirror, unfortunately, those are -CURRENT.. which, will eventually be the 4.4-RELEASE. Reporting hardware incompatibilities for a code

Re: OpenBSD TV tuner

2008-04-04 Thread Unix Fan
Jacob Meuser wrote: > I still prefer bktrplay + tunerctl from > http://jakemsr.trancell.org/bsdav-1.4.tar.gz for watching TV, but I > know those programs, since they are mine. mainly, bktrplay has better > full-screen support, and has fewer artifact issues than either fxtv > or xawtv. bktrpl

Re: Bind 4.9.2

2008-03-25 Thread Unix Fan
Michael Spratt wrote: > ... > I obtained the list of pornographic sites from urlblacklist.com The DNS > server will then respond to users who query port sites with an A record that > points to a local web server that will serve them a "nono" page and log > their ip. >. > ...because we ar

Re: OpenBSD support of EFI?

2008-03-23 Thread Unix Fan
Fred Snurd wrote: > In reading through the recent Intel Mac Mini thread, I'm confused by what > appears to OpenBSD's support? OpenBSD now supports EFI? > Or is EFI have > some compatibility mode with the older BIOS standard? No. In the case of modern Intel Macs, they have something calle

Re: PC Camera?

2008-03-23 Thread Unix Fan
There is a USB standard for USB Cameras among other video devices... It's called "USB Video Device Class". The specific is available to download... if anyone feels brave enough to write a driver for "UVC" class devices... ;) @Sunnz, Unsupported USB devices always attach to "ugen", read the

Re: BDB simple program compile problem

2008-03-20 Thread Unix Fan
> ../usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/local/lib Consider that a test.. or an example of my drunken state, regardless of that.. It's obvious that you have no experience with the options of the compiler.. You failed the test. ;) Change it to -L/usr/local/lib Read manual pages: gcc(1) and

Re: BDB simple program compile problem

2008-03-19 Thread Unix Fan
> COMPILE OUTPUT- > # cc t2.c Why, are you running this as root?.. > /tmp//ccdm8869.o(.text+0x1c): In function `main': > : undefined reference to `db_create' Isn't this message rather obvious? can you not read or something? > /tmp//ccdm8869.o(.text+0x32): In function `main

Re: dvorak key layout

2008-03-15 Thread Unix Fan
Timothy Wilson wrote: > Thanks Ryan, > > Maybe this is new in 4.3 or 4.2? I don't have this option in 4.1. I > guess I should upgrade :) > > Timothy. The manual page claims otherwise, it's a lower case "L" just so you know... you need to run the command as root it seems. http://www.o

Re: UFS2 status in 4.3?

2008-03-15 Thread Unix Fan
t; is an acronym for Berkeley's "Fast File System" - which is a decedent of AT&T UFS (Unix File System). I agree, the naming conventions between the BSD's are unique... but see the following and just accept the fact UFS2 or FFS2 are partially supported as Otto explained.

Re: gettimeofday() dramatical slowdown from 4.1->4.2

2008-03-14 Thread Unix Fan
$ ./time 100 calls to gettimeofday() ... 4.503s $ uname -srp OpenBSD 4.2 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) $ Seems fine here, looks like the error is on your end.. ;) Have you tested on 4.3/snapshots.. perhaps enabling/disabling acpi.. etc?

Re: Trying to get usbnet working to gumstix

2008-03-14 Thread Unix Fan
Sean Kennedy wrote: > For what it's worth, I'm interested too in a tech@ tutorial on (How to add > Unknown, or Semi-Known USB) devices. > > I have had success with adding commonly defined things (Keyboards Mice, and > the occasional USB wireless/wired Network adapter) > > But for something

Re: Sensors support on proliant DL380 G2

2008-03-12 Thread Unix Fan
I did a search around and found something called "SmartStart", Apparently it's a bootable "configuration" utility for your system that configures various settings in NVRAM. http://www.umpquanet.com/support/freebsd_setup.html --FreeBSD articble related to your system... ftp://ftp.compaq.com/p

Re: sftp: Umlauts and Spaces in filenames

2008-03-12 Thread Unix Fan
I ran a few tests, and OpenBSD seems perfectly capable of using those extended characters have you tried using doubled quotes? sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:"file with spaces and Umlauts.txt" That should work.. but, spaces and "extended characters" are so "unclean&qu

Re: The Dilbert Problem...

2008-03-05 Thread Unix Fan
I've been noticing a similar problem with Firefox on OpenBSD... Try going to http://www.blahsfkfefe.non-existant/ and then trying a known site like http://www.google.ca/ .. It just locks up.. If this is an issue with OpenBSD's resolver, why don't the developers fix it? -Nix Fan.

Re: changing bash prompt escape sequences

2008-02-24 Thread Unix Fan
scott wrote: > version a... export PS1="\l [EMAIL PROTECTED] #" > > version b... export PS1="\l [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\$" > > "B" changes the "#" to be either "$" or "#" per user's non-root/root status. I was just using the line they provided... it's up to them to read the manual. -Ni

Re: changing bash prompt escape sequences

2008-02-24 Thread Unix Fan
$ cat .bash_profile ... export PS1="\l [EMAIL PROTECTED] #" $ Then log back in. this really is basic stuff.. ;) (Use ksh, it's much better then bash... ) -Nix Fan.

Re: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2008-02-22 Thread Unix Fan
My understanding of paging isn't as good as the developers, but I do know that memory isn't organized in an entirely sequential fashion.. Free memory is organized into "pages", 4096 byte chucks of memory If my system was shutdown, and someone attempted to recover information from RAM,

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-22 Thread Unix Fan
Jacob Meuser wrote: > Marc Espie wrote: > > Nonsense, as long as you can plug in some plutonium, things should be > > fine. > > Are you tellin' me this sucker is nuclear? ...Mr. Fusion? ;) -Nix Fan.

Re: pkill.c warn when "no such process"

2008-02-21 Thread Unix Fan
$ pkill bob; echo $? 1 $ Just live with it.. ;) Breaking compatibility just to convenience you... is not an option. -Nix Fan.

Re: inspircd + libunwind?

2008-02-21 Thread Unix Fan
Is this the library you're looking for http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/ ? I found it via Google and it wasn't exactly very hard. -Nix Fan.

Re: [ami] Unable to set "Hot Spare" from bioctl on a Dell PERC 4/Di

2008-02-20 Thread Unix Fan
Woah, Has anyone "ever" provided such a detailed and thorough error report before? That was just amazing.. lol :) -Nix Fan. -Nix Fan.

Re: Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-09 Thread Unix Fan
Hello once again, I've successfuly build Xenocara, It installs into /usr/X11R6 (Why not R7 btw?).. and it works.. Now, I'm trying to distribute the build across my workstations... but I get this error. # make release ===> proto/bigreqsproto exec make install make: don't know how to m

Re: Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-09 Thread Unix Fan
Geez, Ignore my last email.. I was ssh'd into the wrong damn system. Sorry for the spam -Nix Fan.

Re: What did you guys break with Xenocara??

2008-02-09 Thread Unix Fan
After a thought provoking email from Ian Darwin and a few good hours to cool off, I would like to apologize for my behaviour.. I'll put more thought into further posts I make to the list. Take care. -Nix Fan.

Re: ports.openbsd.nu

2008-02-09 Thread Unix Fan
Edd Barrett wrote: > hey, > what happened to ports.openbsd.nu?. Darn, It would appear the owner forgot to renew it.. and it got picked up by a domain squatter.. :( Very unfortunate loss.. -Nix Fan.

Re: What did you guys break with Xenocara??

2008-02-09 Thread Unix Fan
> Works fine here on the fresh installation of 4.2 release. I think, I > had to set correct device node in preferences but that was it. I > personally like the best Ogle as a DVD player. You may also use MPlayer. > Did you clean .vlc after the rebuilt? I'm aware of this.. I've used vlc f

Re: What did you guys break with Xenocara??

2008-02-09 Thread Unix Fan
EDIT: Missing subject line, apologies for the spam... honestly. Marco Peereboom wrote: > Since you don't provides logs and just yell I'll assume that this was > done on m68k using last weeks xenocara on last months userland and last > years kernel. I mentioned I was using OpenBSD 4.2 and a

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2008-02-09 Thread Unix Fan
Marco Peereboom wrote: > Since you don't provides logs and just yell I'll assume that this was > done on m68k using last weeks xenocara on last months userland and last > years kernel. I mentioned I was using OpenBSD 4.2 and applied the latest Xenocara patches... Apologies for not stating

Re: What did you guys break with Xenocara??

2008-02-09 Thread Unix Fan
Marco Peereboom wrote: > This report is useless. Where are all the logs? What logs? The only error message produced is in my initial email... all other applications I use are working.. Did you mean a dmesg? What will that accomplish? I haven't updated my kernel since applying the Xenocar

What did you guys break with Xenocara??

2008-02-09 Thread Unix Fan
After I updated my OpenBSD 4.2 workstations with the released patches... VLC media player crashes! VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus vlc:/usr/local/lib/vlc/codec/libquicktime_plugin.so: undefined symbol 'NewHandleClear' The program '.' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a

Re: Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-08 Thread Unix Fan
I've read release(8) and I've read the FAQ... but, both still require manually merging.. copying... etc.. I guess I'm just lazy.. I'll do it the "overly complex" way... :) Packages would be nice... pkg_add integration... Xorg is modular now remember?.. ;) -Nix Fan.

Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-08 Thread Unix Fan
Hello, This morning I applied the Xorg patches provided for OpenBSD 4.2.. the build took several hours on one of my Athlon XP+ 2600 machines but it's working wonderfully now. Is there an easy/safe way to upgrade Xorg on the rest of my workstations without repetitively building it on each o

Re: Inexpensive networking.

2008-02-07 Thread Unix Fan
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Well, I've never had high-speed internet and I get along just fine. My > NFS server was my IBM 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram and a 10 MB/s ISA card. > Worked just fine. > > What wil the students be doing where they would need more than 10 MB/s > each between them and y

Re: Inexpensive networking.

2008-02-07 Thread Unix Fan
I/Unixfan wrote: > such a speed the ISA bus can't even achieve. Apologies, While the rest of what I said was true.. this clearly wasn't. The ISA bus should be able to accomplish 10Mbit+ speeds.. Please don't hurt me ;) -Nix Fan. -Nix Fan.

Xorg -STABLE patches?

2008-01-31 Thread Unix Fan
I've been watching the CVS commits the last few weeks and noticed several Xorg related security fixes back ported into 4.1 and 4.2 -STABLE. Are they important enough to get on the errata pages? Some of us sorta rely on that... ;) Thanks. -Nix Fan.

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Unix Fan
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields. > She gets headaches and other pains when exposed to equipment: the higher > the frequency, the worse her symptoms. Looks like you need to trade her in... she's broken. ;) -Nix Fan.

Re: Install OpenBSD from USB ?

2008-01-24 Thread Unix Fan
markus ploner wrote: > just for the record: > you could've just dd'ed the floppy42.fs to the usb device > this has worked for me several times. > > markus That'd be a pretty dumb way to do it... 1) The bsd.rd on the floppy image is considerably smaller then the one on the CD. 2) USB t

Re: OpenCVS?

2008-01-20 Thread Unix Fan
Stuart Henderson wrote: > See for yourself: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/cvs/ I'm slighly confused by something if the "cvs" command in OpenBSD 4.2 is "OpenCVS", why does "cvs --help" refer to places like cvshome.org for updates etc? -Nix Fan.

Re: vlan configuration: off-topic

2008-01-18 Thread Unix Fan
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, John Nietzsche wrote: > Dear gentleman, That's a very sexist way to address the people on this list.. be a bit more gender neutral next time. -Nix Fan.

Re: azalia0 on hp nx7300

2008-01-18 Thread Unix Fan
Bachman Kharazmi wrote: > yeay! > outputs.speaker.eapd=off -> on > did turn off the mute led. and now I get should ;) > ... I think you meant "sound"... ;) "should" means something entirely different... -Nix Fan.

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-16 Thread Unix Fan
I notice a lot of people forward several ports when using bittorrent You know, It's not written in stone that you "need" to use more then a single port... I never run into any speed problems... Even when nearly maxing up my 20Mbit home cable line ;) -Nix Fan.

Re: 64 bit file I/O?

2008-01-10 Thread Unix Fan
Apologies, I was using a larger count size, which is restricted by a 32bit variable. (size_t). FreeBSD's dd is 64 bit safe for all options... might be worth looking into. Darrin Chandler wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: > > what bs are you using? > > Try to be more polite, please. He wasn

64 bit file I/O?

2008-01-10 Thread Unix Fan
Does OpenBSD's base utilities support 64 bit I/O? I attempted to create a 8GB file using the "dd" application distributed with OpenBSD 4.2, unfortunately it fails with: dd: count: Result too large Confused, I tried making the size smaller, and noticed it bails out at exactly 4294967295 b

Re: Apache box behind Openbsd

2008-01-08 Thread Unix Fan
Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Antti Harri wrote: > > Errr.. why the hell are you running Apache and PHP on Windows rather > > than your OpenBSD? > > Because Stallman make it easy to run *HIS* version of *SUPPOSE* free > software one Windows. That's why. Stallman as the various treads pointed >

Re: Hard disk speed

2008-01-08 Thread Unix Fan
You can use iostat(8) if you're trying to ascertain the "transfer rate" the of drive... are you? $ iostat -d wd0 cd0 cd1 fd0 KB/t t/s MB/s KB/t t/s MB/s KB/t t/s MB/s KB/t t/s MB/s 18.10 1 0.03 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 3.8

Re: OSS v4.0 released under BSD license

2008-01-07 Thread Unix Fan
Awesome, It's great that they decided to release the code under a 2 clause BSD licence... :-) But I don't the the OpenBSD project should rip out it's entire current framework and start using this package.. Still, It could serve as an excellent research... for additional drivers, inspiratio

Re: [Fwd: Open-Hardware]

2008-01-07 Thread Unix Fan
Richard Stallman wrote: > Gilles' message seems to say that OpenBSD policy is to allow > binary-only firmware. Is that correct? Binary "firmware" that's legally redistributable is distributed in OpenBSD, Yes. But you need to wrap your head around what that means for OpenBSD. Modern tech

Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question

2008-01-07 Thread Unix Fan
Richard Stallman wrote: > But it also perpetuates serious problems (totalitarian surveillance,...) Are you seriously that paranoid? Do you wear a tin foil hat by any chance? :-) Richard Stallman wrote: > The cases are similar, and my view on the two cases is similar. So answer this question,

Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question

2008-01-07 Thread Unix Fan
Richard Stallman wrote: > I see nothing wrong in using someone else's > Windows machine for a few minutes. Great!, Now go down to your local public library.. assuming they offer free Internet access.. Do you're own fucking research! Helpful resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/ http://

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-05 Thread Unix Fan
> As I've said, I think it's acceptable for free applications to run on > non-free platforms (and say that they do), because this doesn't > recommend the installation of those non-free platforms. But free > systems should not recommend, suggest, or offer to install non-free > apps. What is

Re: how to create a sha256 hash

2008-01-04 Thread Unix Fan
I've always used "sha1 -a sha256 filename", but I suppose cksum(1) would be the better command to use.. ;) -Nix Fan.

Apologies for the subject-less post...

2008-01-04 Thread Unix Fan
I messed up while replying to a topic, won't happen again... hopefully.. -Nix Fan.

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-04 Thread Unix Fan
Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > Yes, as this continues you have to say something Theo, but. > I personally prefer the moto "If you want it right - you have to do > it yourself". > > So please Theo stop wasting your time and continue with your > development of OpenBSD. > The energy you wa

Re: delete deleted data

2008-01-03 Thread Unix Fan
new_guy wrote: > I'm working on putting a website up now where I'll fully disclose the > details. Lots of pictures and details. I will attribute the dd used to > OpenBSD (the best OS on the planet bar none... although the dd on the > install CD did not support the conv option... I would have li

Re: delete deleted data

2008-01-03 Thread Unix Fan
I'm sorry Marco, but I think what you've said is "bullshit", as well contacted several "so called" data recovery organizations, after admitting to have "zeroed" the drive contents - They said recovery wasn't possible.. While it "might" be possible to get miscellaneous data off of a drive, it w

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-03 Thread Unix Fan
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >I'm not talking about the CVS tree, I'm talking about > > http://www.openbsd.org/4.2_packages/i386.html > > I'm sorry for the "abuse" of language if you want to make a strong > difference between port and package. > > That is an OpenBSD site which has sof

Re: fvwm in base and repository with security issues?

2008-01-01 Thread Unix Fan
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > To satisfy my own curiosity, looking at > www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_X_window_managers which provides > links to 45 window managers for which there are wiki pages, I looked at > the licence for each and found that only xmonad, wmii, fluxbox, and > blackbo

Re: delete deleted data

2007-12-31 Thread Unix Fan
"rm -P" would be what you're looking for.. But is it even required? It's not exactly an easy task to "undelete" a file anyway... the process alone is an effecitve deterrent. -Nix Fan.

Re: error while adding amavisd....

2007-12-30 Thread Unix Fan
OpenBSD doesn't have distribution rights for "archivers/freeze"... You'll have to build it from ports... -Nix Fan.

Re: UNIX way of undeleting files?

2007-12-29 Thread Unix Fan
>From my understanding, restoring a file after deletion would be very >complicated because files aren't stored in a "sequential" fashion... When you delete a file, the inode for the file is removed.. (assuming there wasn't another hard link to it...)... That inode contained the only list of

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Unix Fan
Marco Peereboom wrote: > What in the world??? > > Do you drive a car? if the answer is yes you have an unconnected > embedded device. Need more examples? No, I walk.. batteries not included.. Seriously, I was simply giving my opinion... unfortunately I walked under a bridge and got at

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Unix Fan
This is a neat idea, but personally I think it'll be hard to make the device "0 maintenance", problems can always occur... If you're set on using OpenBSD in this project, remove everything from the base system that isn't needed... and try running the unit non-stop for 48/hours... just to be s

Re: pf + wii

2007-12-26 Thread Unix Fan
Chris Cappuccio wrote: > upnp is also necessary for other multiplayer games like xbox live. it's > unfortunate, but true. Here's an idea.. grow up and stop playing "Video Games". Problem eliminated.. damn kids and their games... -Nix Fan.

Re: Marry Christmas!

2007-12-23 Thread Unix Fan
Who the heck is Marry? :P Typically one spells it "Merry", not "Marry". Please spank the evil monkey who taught you English -Scrooge (Aka, Nix Fan..)

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Unix Fan
Some day in the future, RMS will die while having sexual intercourse with an android running proprietary software... and on that day, I will buy everyone a round of beers. Sure I'm terrible, but he's just crazy... ;) (I may be drunk, but you are ugly, and tomorrow I'll be sober.) -Nix Fa

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Unix Fan
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > You too. > > I still remember cheering when I read > > http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/ports/0108/msg00460.html > >* From: Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >* Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:11:00 -0600 >* Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I am j

Re: Bind port for bind/dmz

2007-12-14 Thread Unix Fan
"Michael Spratt" wrote: >I have a question, I'm trying to recompile a flavor of bind but I can't find > the port because its part of the base install. > > Could you point me in the right direction on how I would do it ? > > I downloaded the bind source and compiled it but obviously the o

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