Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:39 +, Sebastien Carlier wrote: Rui, On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users. You don't seem to get the fact that the BSD license is *more free* than the GPL because the BSD

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 00:30 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: Obviously you have missed some of my commentaries on the GPL vs. BSD philosophy. I don't hate the GPL. I dislike it compared to the BSD alternative in general (I dislike milk chocolate compared to dark chocolate, too, but either beats

PF - load balance/round-robin/multiple ports

2007-09-15 Thread Adam PAPAI
Hello List, I'd like to do a similar thing like this: web_servers = { 10.0.0.10, 10.0.0.11, 10.0.0.13 } rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 80 - $web_servers \ round-robin sticky-address But I'd like to define multiple ports and I'd like to loop through the ports. So like

Re: Problem installing openBSD 4.0 on intel S3000AH

2007-09-15 Thread Insan Praja SW
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:33:42 +0700, Mark Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I already tried to do that, but it seem that OpenBSD installer dont use bios information (things like no bios on dmesg). I might trying to install openBSD 3.9 or 4.1, since I have successfully install a 3.9 on

Re: FW: Problem with ftp-proxy -- additional info

2007-09-15 Thread Darren Spruell
On 9/14/07, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Ok, here is a sample. I tried a connection from my workstation 10.0.0.103 to ftp.openbsd.org. Firewall's pf.conf ---BEGIN if_loopback=lo0 # loopback if_public=em1 # connected to public network if_int=bnx1 #

Re: unstable and multiple reboot for 4.2 on Sun X4100 M2 with ACPI enable on AMD64 bsd.mp with SAS RAID 1 setup.

2007-09-15 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
The latest snapshot (13. Sept). of amd64 bsd.mp with ACPI enabled runs stable on two X4100 M2 which are identically configured (single SAS disk only, no RAID-1 yet, with current BIOS/SP/SAS Firmware from Sun). As Daniel already observed with a snapshot that is two days older, booting is much

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thursday 13 September 2007, Jason Dixon wrote: It boggles my mind that we can lie around complacently, arguing about installer menus and taking the bait from trolls, while our freedoms are quickly eroding away. The rights and recognition of one of our own developers (reyk@) have been

Creating bridge problem

2007-09-15 Thread Jake Conk
Hello, For some reason when I try to add my bridge interface to one of my cards it just hangs. My commands are: ifconfig bridge0 create ifconfig bridge0 add fxp1 And it just hangs pretty much forever until i Ctrl-C it... If I put in my /etc/hostname.bridge0 file... add fxp1 up ...then on my

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:33:18AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: the clearest public analysis of the situation yet thank you. I've tried but I get too pissed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

cups printing question

2007-09-15 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm getting garbled printouts when I try to print to my xp network shared printer, an HP DeskJet 722C, from my OpenBSD 4.1 box. A good for instance is the OpenBSD home page. Graphics printed great, but about 3/4 of the left side of the page was

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow some users to loose freedom... Hello again Rui, the US. Over here, if you own a copy of a

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:09:41AM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote: On 9/14/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: | I don't establish *anything*. It's in the preamble. Your exact words are that's in the preamble,

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:29:31PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow some users to loose freedom... You make the point of using

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Damien Miller
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to change a program because he has no access to the source code. You seem to be entirely missing the irony of making this statement in the context of an argument about

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Jeroen Massar
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow some users to loose freedom... Hello again Rui, the US. Over

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Good luck doing so without any source code. Teehee Teehee. No luck required. It does however take a wee bit of skill and competence. Actually, for exacting work, the source is a liability. The source tends to make assorted bugs vanish. You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Damien Miller wrote: To: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra Cc: J.C. Roberts; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to change a program

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread bofh
On 9/15/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman can be found here: http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/info/GNUGNU If Stallman actually believed a word of what he wrote above, he would still be dedicating all of his works to the public domain since it would

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:58:36PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to change a program because he has no access to the source code. That is only because you are uneducated in the art of assembly and more importantly there

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:11:38AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: Good luck doing so without any source code. Teehee Teehee. No luck required. It does however take a wee bit of skill and competence. Actually, for exacting work, the source is a liability. The source tends to make assorted bugs

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 09:54:10PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to change a program because he has no access to the source code. You seem to be entirely missing the

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
as if that would make all past wrong arguments become true. Your subjunctive is derailed. Tweedledee is getting tweedledummer and dummer

pf outbound modulate state

2007-09-15 Thread Craig Skinner
Doing a pf.conf tidy up. From the pf.conf man page on 4.1: STATE MODULATION Much of the security derived from TCP is attributable to how well the initial sequence numbers (ISNs) are chosen. Some popular stack implemen tations choose very poor ISNs and thus are normally susceptible to ISN

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:25:29AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: Damien Miller wrote: To: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra Cc: J.C. Roberts; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: You seem uneducated about how

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:33:02PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow some users to loose

Re: Creating bridge problem

2007-09-15 Thread Nick Holland
Jake Conk wrote: Hello, For some reason when I try to add my bridge interface to one of my cards it just hangs. My commands are: ifconfig bridge0 create ifconfig bridge0 add fxp1 And it just hangs pretty much forever until i Ctrl-C it... If I put in my /etc/hostname.bridge0 file...

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
So you admit you are incompetent. If you were really competent you would be able to read the blinking lights and alter running programs via the swwitches. By the way, there is a difference between reading and writing. But then, you seem to actually be THAT incompetent. -Original

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sep 15, 2007, at 9:42 AM, bofh wrote: On 9/15/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GNU Manifesto by Richard Stallman can be found here: http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/info/GNUGNU If Stallman actually believed a word of what he wrote above, he would still be dedicating all of his

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-15 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 18:55 -0700, asdf wrote: --- Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed FreeBSD once in my life. Took me 3 tries and I am sure some kittens were murdered in the process. I am also pretty sure I wept at some point. Honestly I can't remember a much worse

Re: OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-15 Thread Diana Eichert
Geez, a thread that should have died already and I'm contributing to it. I've used FreeBSD and OpenBSD for at least 9 years. I much prefer the OpenBSD installer over the FreeBSD installer any day. If people read just a tiny little bit the OpenBSD install docs they'd realize the OpenBSD method

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
This definitly has to be a joke :) You're pulling my leg, mister! ;) On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 09:13:31AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: So you admit you are incompetent. If you were really competent you would be able to read the blinking lights and alter running programs via the swwitches.

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:53:02PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:33:02PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the freedom to modify it.

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Most people think it's magic, and most don't understand that I've always had the impression that OpenBSD is NOT most people They seem to be people who think it's actually worthwhile knowing what they are talking about. Seems like most people on this list think that you are incredibly dense and

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
Great attitude! As the main spokesperson for GNU this is exactly what you should do. Run run run!! You are in essence saying: go ahead break the law, I'll look the other way. Bravo! I am totally impressed by your ethics ramblings. On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:09:19PM -0400, Richard Stallman

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
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Re: serial port usage

2007-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-14 21:39]: USB - the number of boxes I've had to disable USB on to stabilise, this would not usually be my first choice. ymmv, as they say (-: wtf? out of the about 180 i control i don't have a simgle one with usb disabled... -- Henning Brauer,

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-14 18:33]: At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote: Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs There are several multi-port USB-serial adapters

Re: unstable and multiple reboot for 4.2 on Sun X4100 M2 with ACPI enable on AMD64 bsd.mp with SAS RAID 1 setup.

2007-09-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: The latest snapshot (13. Sept). of amd64 bsd.mp with ACPI enabled runs stable on two X4100 M2 which are identically configured (single SAS disk only, no RAID-1 yet, with current BIOS/SP/SAS Firmware from Sun). Be caution and with reserved! Not stable if you do not add

Re: pf outbound modulate state

2007-09-15 Thread Henning Brauer
* Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-15 16:21]: Doing a pf.conf tidy up. From the pf.conf man page on 4.1: STATE MODULATION Much of the security derived from TCP is attributable to how well the initial sequence numbers (ISNs) are chosen. Some popular stack implemen tations choose

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Damien Miller
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 09:54:10PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to change a program because he has no access to

Thank You OpenBSD

2007-09-15 Thread Sean Darby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello fellows from the OpenBSD community, I just wanted to stop and smell the roses. I occasionally play around with other systems, of the Unix variety and, for the sake of seeing things through the looking glass, taking an outside perspective, the

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread William Boshuck
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:19:39AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 09:54:10PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread bofh
On 9/15/07, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has everything to do with Stallman's FSF/SFLC lawyer cronies. They're the ones giving faulty counsel to Linux developers. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this. People who have spoken with him indicated to me that he is

Re: Thank You OpenBSD

2007-09-15 Thread Andrés
Question: Is it true there was a developer's comment line in the Linux kernel that said, Does this belong here? Don't know that. But I do see this: ftp -Vo - http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/sys/arch/mac68k/mac68k/machdep.c?rev=1.142 | grep belong Greetings.

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Saturday 15 September 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow some users to loose freedom...

sudo wheel group

2007-09-15 Thread Chris
I been looking for ways to let normal user run privileged commands and after some searching found that adding users to the wheel group is bad and also adding NOPASSWD and ALL = ALL to sudoers for an user is also plain as bad. The only alternative I can think of at the moment is to populate the

Re: sudo wheel group

2007-09-15 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
What exactly are you trying to enable users to do? The fact that you need to provide normal users with these kind of privileges indicates a possible flaw in your overall scheme. You may find that, after careful reconsideration, there are precious few commands that you would actually have to

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
So you are suggesting that all the ethics ramblings coming out of gnu.org aren't relevant? Because gnu.org is clearly looking the other way ignoring copyright infringement. On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:41:55PM -0400, bofh wrote: On 9/15/07, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has

Re: sudo wheel group

2007-09-15 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/15/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I been looking for ways to let normal user run privileged commands and after some searching found that adding users to the wheel group is bad and also adding NOPASSWD and ALL = ALL to sudoers for an user is also plain as bad. The only alternative I

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread Richard Stallman
In the case of Ryek's code, the reverse is true but instead of admitting the mistake and making the needed corrections, FSF has pulled out their lawyers in hopes of getting away with the theft. You have jumped to a false conclusion. The FSF is not involved in this; Linux is not our

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-15 Thread Jeremy Huiskamp
On 15-Sep-07, at 10:57 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Fact #3 Any way you want to look at it, looks like very much a Copyright violation was committed, but then SFLC said it's OK. Front page: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ No debate and can't be argue. Fact #4 And publish a release to that