Excuse my good old-fashioned American turkeyness of last year, but if it's not secure by default, it does indeed belong on the website. Why can't we set machdep.allowaperture=1 for n00bs whose first priority is to use X Windows without getting hacked in the kernel from all those stray pointers escaping from Firefox? Sure, ASLR helps, but I want a basic browser capable of running Javascript securely in a thread-safe jail without crashing on double frees, running out of memory, and selling more cookies than the Girl Scouts, that somehow manages to maintain more hidden access logs than a Swiss bank on MY personal computer, regardless of the privacy settings I choose. Is surf a better browser, or are there other suggestions?
Surely OpenBSD would not be accused of antitrust for integrating a browser into the operating system, or at least coming up with or pointing users toward a decent port if there is one. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but what I'm getting at is that I want/need a secure standards-compliant graphical client for web access. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bod...@gmail.com> To: John Doe <jl2...@yahoo.com> Cc: "w...@openbsd.org" <w...@openbsd.org>; OpenBSD-misc list <misc@openbsd.org> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:47 PM Subject: Re: n00b questions -- keyboard messed up On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 7:16 PM, John Doe <jl2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The keyboard mapping in the kernel is getting correpted when I use X Windows > Version 11 Release 6 Xenocara. I am using a Microsoft(R) Digital Media > Keyboard 3000. How do I map the extra keys? and would it help if I used > machdep.allowaperture=1 instead of 2? Also kbd can change the keyboard > mapping as a regular user, but it cannot list the available keyboard mappings > without being r00t, and it doesn't take effect until I log out and back in to > X-Windows. Why is this, and how do I type diacritical marks like circumflex > carets and other accents, umlauts, ruotsalainen o, etc. in OpenBSD? > This thread belongs to misc@ and not www@ post your dmesg, /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log for mapping keys in X see man xmodmap Why machdep.allowaperture and what is done by this setting see http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xf86&sektion=4 (man xf86)
