Re: perl popularity inside openbsd community? (Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl ...)

2020-01-03 Thread Daniel Boyd
True, but I think it’s cleaner when you’re actually calling the function to not have to send a hashref. Small thing, of course, but I figure you write a function once, but call it many times. I’d rather the function call be cleaner/simpler than the function definition for that reason. Sent from

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Daniel Boyd
We could always rewrite the entire operating system in Pascal. FreePascal and GNU Pascal are both GPL, so we’ll need to write a new compiler as well. Shouldn’t take too long. Who wants to go register openpascal.org? I’ll get a diff started program OpenBSD; begin { some code here } end. Sent fr

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Daniel Boyd
As one of the few remaining people out there who considers perl to be their favorite language—starting to wonder if it’s just me and Larry Wall at this point—I’d like to say that perl should stay in base on its merits, all the perl-based system tools notwithstanding. I decided learn perl becaus

Re: Lenovo w/ AMD Ryzen CPU

2019-05-28 Thread Daniel Boyd
must some kind of bizarre coincidence On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 11:16:51AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > I am hoping to get one also... and as a rule whatever I get my hands on tends > to work out well. > > danieljb...@icloud.com wrote: > > > I just ordered some E495s (not 'T', but pretty similar

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-04 Thread Daniel Boyd
On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 10:21 -0500, Allan Streib wrote: > "Alceu R. de Freitas Jr." writes: > > > I guess Intel does not give a shit about non-profit groups. Linux > > got > > this attention because there are a lot of players making money from > > it, players that surely have some sort of partners

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-04 Thread Daniel Boyd
On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 10:49 -0500, Daniel Wilkins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 10:21:12AM -0500, Allan Streib wrote: > > "Alceu R. de Freitas Jr." writes: > > > > > I guess Intel does not give a shit about non-profit groups. Linux > > > got > > > this attention because there are a lot of play

Re: Kernel memory leaking on Intel CPUs?

2018-01-04 Thread Daniel Boyd
On Jan 4, 2018, at 5:43 AM, Tom Smyth wrote: > > sorry all, > > I had posted to the tech mailing list about this .. I came across these 2 > papers and they may be of interest about the CPU Security flaws > > https://spectreattack.com/ > > I hope this helps > Tom Smyth > Were the BSDs given a

Error compiling kernel on macppc

2017-12-02 Thread Daniel Boyd
I got this error compiling the kernel while applying the 6.2 errata patch yesterday. https://hastebin.com/yoyovogeyi.vbs My dmesg: # dmesg [ using 1150316 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ] console out [ATY,Rage128Pd] console in [keyboard], using USB : memaddr 9400, size 400 : cons

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-16 Thread Daniel Boyd
her wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Mike Coddington >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:01:09AM -0600, Daniel Boyd wrote: >>>>> I've installed OpenBSD/macppc twice on my G4 Cube now and it seems to >>>&

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 13:35 -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > > tar _is_ pax: > : corwin; ls -li /bin/tar /bin/pax > 52015 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433472 Nov 1 11:15 /bin/pax > 52015 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433472 Nov 1 11:15 /bin/tar > : corwin; > > Fundamentally, unless a userspace process is

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 13:08 -0600, Mike Coddington wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:01:09AM -0600, Daniel Boyd wrote: > > I've installed OpenBSD/macppc twice on my G4 Cube now and it seems > > to > > be working fine until I go to untar src.tar.gz at which point it >

Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
I've installed OpenBSD/macppc twice on my G4 Cube now and it seems to be working fine until I go to untar src.tar.gz at which point it throws some abort trap errors and crashes. If I reboot, I get a bunch of abort traps during the boot process followed by several: init: can't exec getty '/usr/lib

Re: Keeping up to date with ports and putting ports/pobj on wxallowed filesystem

2017-11-09 Thread Daniel Boyd
On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 14:52 -0500, Jeff wrote: > Is it not worth it to update ports in this way; meaning, > is it better to simply wait for OpenBSD6.3 and stick with > binary packages? > > The openbsd.org site says: > The ports tree is meant for advan

Mac G4 Cube Problems

2017-10-24 Thread Daniel Boyd
I'm into week 2 of trying to get OpenBSD installed on my G4 Cube. I first tried installing via CD, but the CD-ROM drive is broken. I then tried DHCP/TFTP/NFS booting but couldn't get that working. I then tried attaching another IDE CD-ROM drive to the Cube, but I couldn't get the CD to boot (tri

Re: Hyper-V Disk Performance

2017-10-23 Thread Daniel Boyd
On Oct 23, 2017, at 8:57 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote: > > Thanks for the helpful response. > > FYI, I did some more research and discovered that Hyper-V doesn’t support > booting from virtual SCSI drives, so that solves that. > > I have another vm running on my lapto

Re: Hyper-V Disk Performance

2017-10-23 Thread Daniel Boyd
Oct 23, 2017, at 7:25 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > >> On 10/23/17 17:41, Daniel Boyd wrote: >> Is there a recommended configuration for virtual disks in Hyper-V? I >> have a virtual machine that I set up recently running 6.2 that has >> *very* slow disk performance. It t

Hyper-V Disk Performance

2017-10-23 Thread Daniel Boyd
Is there a recommended configuration for virtual disks in Hyper-V? I have a virtual machine that I set up recently running 6.2 that has *very* slow disk performance. It took well over an hour to untar ports.tar.gz. The host server is a few years old, but it's running 3 RAID-5 7200rpm drives, qua

Re: macppc netboot

2017-10-18 Thread Daniel Boyd
FS is working. I'm able to mount the nfs share on another computer, so, i'm kind of out of ideas... On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 14:50 +0200, Solène Rapenne wrote: > Je 2017-10-18 00:47, Daniel Boyd skribis: > > I'm attempting to install onto a G4 Cube with a busted CD-ROM > &

macppc netboot

2017-10-17 Thread Daniel Boyd
I'm attempting to install onto a G4 Cube with a busted CD-ROM drive. I've never done network booting before, so I'm sure I'm just missing something. I set up NFS and TFTP on a linux box, copied ofwboot to the TFTP share and bsd.rd plus all the tgz files to the NFS share. In Open Firmware, I'm se

l2tp client

2017-10-09 Thread Daniel Boyd
configuring OpenBSD as a ipsec/l2tp server, but not as much as a client. I assume I’ll need the xl2tpd package… When I connect a Mac, iOS device, or PC, the VPN requires a username, password and a secret. Can anyone point me in the direction of some documentation to get started? Thanks! Daniel Boyd

Re: Can't use sshfs as user

2016-04-26 Thread Daniel Boyd
Any idea how to get it to map the uid? Once I mount the folder, I can't access it. I've tried -o idmap=user, -o uid=1000, etc. None of that seems to work. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Thuban said: > > Oh, that was it. > > It works after a > > # chmod 666 /d

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-20 Thread Daniel Boyd
Radeon HD 7770 Sent from Outlook Mobile. Yes, it works with gmail. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:21 PM -0700, "ilyes aiouaz" wrote: Hi, What's the model of your graphics card ? Le 20/04/2016 18:46, Daniel Boyd a écrit : > Breakthrough in xfce -- Settings ->

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-20 Thread Daniel Boyd
Breakthrough in xfce -- Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Compositor. Disabled it. Runs *so* much better On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Boyd wrote: > I just switched to fvwm this morning and it's night-and-day faster than > xfce. Hard to believe it's the sam

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-20 Thread Daniel Boyd
ird thing is it doesn't match the "openfiles-cur" of your default > login class (2048, according to your first email). > > Le 04/20/16 16:41, Daniel Boyd a écrit : > > $ ulimit -a > > time(cpu-seconds)unlimited > > file(blocks) unlimited > >

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-20 Thread Daniel Boyd
not as > pretty. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Apr 18, 2016, at 3:13 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote: > > > > Thanks -- I will give xombrero a shot. Definitely need javascript > support > > as I am currently composing this in Gmail and do quite a bit of > > javs

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-20 Thread Daniel Boyd
PM, ilyes aiouaz wrote: > Le 19/04/2016 19:11, Daniel Boyd a écrit : > >> Firefox has been quite stable, with or without the 'noscript' plug-in, >>> >> since I increased my data allocation. The crashes that I saw >> >>> previously were all due

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-19 Thread Daniel Boyd
> Firefox has been quite stable, with or without the 'noscript' plug-in, since I increased my data allocation. The crashes that I saw > previously were all due to running out of memory (I don't run a > desktop, just a wm, nor do I use xdm, so it's easy to see Firefox > errors on the vt where I ran

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-19 Thread Daniel Boyd
I was OK with the performance in Firefox (though it was pretty slow). What was *really* bothering me was the crashing. Does 'noscript' solve that as well? I'm currently trying out xombrero and vimb. I feel like vimb might be a bit faster, but it doesn't recognize the Gmail composing text area a

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Boyd
Thanks -- I will give xombrero a shot. Definitely need javascript support as I am currently composing this in Gmail and do quite a bit of javscript-based web development :) On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:31 PM, wrote: > I think the problem is with firefox itself. > tedu@ wrote a post about this: >

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Boyd
> Yes, I did. awesome, and clutter(that comes with gnome. I actually > installed the gnome DE to just to try this out). To no avail. > > Speculating, I'd say that the problem is in X. Where I don't know. But it > might also be that xfce is involved somehow; both 5.8 and 5.9 uses xfce > 4.12. IIRC,

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Boyd
> I was unable to solve either of the two problems you describe and > obviously did noone else. The proposed solutions later in this thread did > nothing to improve the situation in my case. Your first item (the crash > fest in 5.8 and 5.9) made me move back to 5.7 which I'm using right now. It > c

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-18 Thread Daniel Boyd
I tried this and it didn't seem to have much of an effect, unfortunately. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:48 PM, wrote: > Try to raise your aperture driver level to give your gpu more privileges: > > # sysctl machdep.allowaperture=2 > > You can read more about the other levels on man pages (type "man

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
hm.. What about the slow xfce? Does anyone else have issues dragging windows around with high-res monitors? Anyone else using a Radeon HD 7770? On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Daniel Jakots wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:11:39 -0500, Daniel Boyd > wrote: > > > I have no

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
yeah -- my effective data limit is (and has been ) 3500M this this might be indicative of bad memory (like physically?) On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote: > > I had my datasize up under 'staff' whi

Re: Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
llen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Boyd wrote: > > I have noticed a pattern lately. When I open LibreOffice or Evince, > > Firefox crashes -- like pretty regularly. I switched from using Calc to > > Gnumeric and that has helped some, but having my br

Firefox Crashes; slow xfce

2016-04-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
I have noticed a pattern lately. When I open LibreOffice or Evince, Firefox crashes -- like pretty regularly. I switched from using Calc to Gnumeric and that has helped some, but having my browser crash 10-15 times a day is not good for productivity. I've been using OpenBSD (first 5.8 and now 5.

GUI Designer

2016-02-22 Thread Daniel Boyd
hreaded perl, but thought I'd check to see ifanyone had a better idea.  Or do you guys justnot write GUIs? :) Daniel Boyd

Re: sshfs man page, -o idmap=user

2016-02-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
art Henderson wrote: > On 2016-02-12, Daniel Boyd wrote: > > I am having this same issue. I also tried adding the -d switch > > to see if that would shed any light. > > > > $ sshfs -d -o idmap=user ... > > command-line line 0: Bad number. > > remote hos

Re: sshfs man page, -o idmap=user

2016-02-12 Thread Daniel Boyd
I am having this same issue. I also tried adding the -d switch to see if that would shed any light. $ sshfs -d -o idmap=user ... command-line line 0: Bad number. remote host has disconnected $ sshfs -d -o idmap=file,uidfile=myuidfile,gidfile=mygidfile ... command-line line 0: Bad number. remote

pf problem

2009-05-07 Thread Daniel Boyd
I'm having some problems getting pf to forward ports. My computer is running a fresh install of OpenBSD 4.5. My internal network is using 172.17.2.0/24 and I need pf to do NAT and forward some ports to two internal servers. NAT is working just fine, (e.g. the internal computers can browse th