Apologies, this might be a little bit OT but I was thinking of this and I
thought about the wonderful folks at OpenBSD.
Say you had the guts of an x86_64 desktop running Windows on the bench and
another computer running OpenBSD right next to it, is there some mechanism
available that could allow y
I don't like stickers on my computers. I don't do bumper stickers either.
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > My goal is not to rip off anyone, but to help the project.
>
> You cannot help the project by begging on a mailing list that
> I partake in business.
>
> Get over
It's true that OpenBSD works wonderfully under VMware, especially under a
Linux host. It's so good in fact, I see no logical reason to use OpenBSD
any other way because it frees me from driver & firmware he'll; it's true
that native performance is probably better, but now I can use OpenBSD as I
I was able to easily install OpenBSD 5.9 RELEASE amd64 to this circa 2011
Lenovo laptop with core i3, Intel Graphics, 8GB of memory, 320GB HD;
Unfortunately the Broadcom wireless will not work, but the ethernet works,
trying to understand how to add a usb wireless to it. Sound works, and
resume wo
Does this USB wireless add-o, which uses a realtek chipset, work with
OpenBSD?âThe installer sees it, the firmware fails to load.
Thanks,
Richard
I would read McKusick's book on FreeBSD. He gives a good historical accounting
of the BSD's. Also the book Raymond's book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
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From: Jorge Luis
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I have no clue what a hackathon costs, any ballpark averages?
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From: Theo de Raadt
Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 11:11 AM
To: Donald Allen
Cc: Theo de Raadt; misc; Richard Thornton
Subject: Re: A
The reality is obvious - most users of open source are pure unadulterated free
loaders. Nobody pays but we all use it.
That includes very large corporations as well. Torvalds solved it the old
fashioned way; he is an employee of his own foundation. McKusick sells
training videos. All I can d
France is screwed and perhaps Europe, translation, WWIII, unless they get
their Muslim problem under control ASAP. Glad I don't live there. Let's not
forget Mr. Roy who went back home to Bangladesh for an award, or Van Gogh
walking down a street in Amsterdam. Are France and the few remaining Euro
I am now using the 5.8 release. I have tried to start avahi in my
rc.conf.local file but it always fails to load. In 5.7 I never had this
problem. What's the correct way to load these daemons?
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I spoke too soon earlier - mine arrived today as well! 10/15/2015.
Princeton area, NJ
On 10/15/15 14:26, Vijay Sankar wrote:
Quoting Carl Trachte :
Tucson, Arizona
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Ralph Siegler
wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:51:28 +, M Wheeler wrote:
CD's arrived to
I know I paid for a 5.8 disk, but I have never received it.
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Original Message
From: Carl Trachte
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 10:36 PM
To: OpenBSD general usage list
Subject: Re: CD's arrived
Tucson, Arizona
O
I am in NJ. Have not received anything yet.
RT
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Original Message
From: Raf Czlonka
Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 2:38 PM
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: CD's arrived
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 03:51:28PM BST, M Wh
There are no "one size fits all" OS's; why would we need one? That's why
we have networks!
Richard Thornton
: secularsolutions...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Start isc_named earlier
I am really sorry, but don't. .. I was hijacking your message to right a new
question and then i happened to move my finger the wrong way and boom
send...
Sorry
On Sun Aug 23 18:47:32 2015 GMT+0200, Richard Thornton
When this test box, a Sempron 3400 begins to boot, USB is recognized:
OpenBSD 5.7 (RAMDISK_CD) #806: Sun Mar 8 11:08:49 MDT 2015
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD
real mem = 3404660736 (3246MB)
avail mem = 3312402432 (3158MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbu
If you have xscreensaver installed, that definitely does not always play nice
with mice and keyboards; perhaps it's something like that.
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In the spirit of George box, all code is shitty, but some is ok.
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Original Message
From: Joseph Oficre
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:05 PM
To: OpenBSD misc
Subject: lxde
Hello, friends.
Can someone teel me why t
This page still references version 5.6; just letting you know.
I have dismantled my Sun Blade 100, circa 2002 era, and I have the (4) 500 MG
memory sticks, keyboard, mouse, monitor, CD player, and the two original stock
15 GB IDE drives. If anyone wants the parts, let me know.
It was occasionally a noisy box. I kept mine in a metal enclosure for medium
I am glad that stinkpad argument is settled . How about discussing
OpenBSD? I find that codeblocks core dumps every time . Would it dump
less on Asus? Cause it dumps a lot on my Lenovo VM.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 8:48 PM ÐÑÑÑÑ ÐÑÑомин
wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:01:19P
I finally got this up & running 64 bit; I have only $75 tied up in this
box and it runs very well on 64 bit OpenBSD 5.7; I tried other OS's such as
Ubuntu & FreeBSD, but based on my informal trial & error, OpenBSD is still
the reigning OS for this type of hardware. As a disclaimer - I am OS
Check out this on fossforce...
http://fossforce.com/2015/07/microsoft-writes-check-free-oscon-passes/#more-1253135
I thought this online blog was only interestedin linux, but apparently its
focus is much larger.
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Joel Rees wrote:
I see, now, how my post was misinterpret
Has anybody built RStudio for OpenBSD?
Richard
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Thornton
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: 32bit vs. 64bit on older 64bit processors
A friend gave me a fully functioning Compaq Sempron 3400+; he has 1.2GB
installed memory, but I have purchased a
See page 159 of the recent second edition of McKusick's book on the BSD
kernel. It's FreeBSD centric, but its the same concepts.
On Jan 14, 2015 6:31 PM, "Theo de Raadt" wrote:
> > at [1], I read something about 'Sigtramp separation' within
> > the W^X transition. I only know that this sigtra
I bought a can of this paint from a hardware store up in Lake Louise last
week.
On Wed, 14 Jan 2015, Theo de Raadt wrote:
On 2015-01-14, mar...@martinbrandenburg.com
wrote:
"Buying a CD" in my case includes a 5.000 mile trip through multiple
"five-eyes" nations, whose overzealous three
Hi,
Does anybody know of any integration between PF and ndpi?
I would love to be able to block by application (bittorrent, skype...) in
PF!
If there is nothing out there, would it be a lot of work, is ndpi already
working in OpenBSD?
Thanks.
Richard
You're right! I am outa here! Bye!
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Peter Hessler wrote:
> This has gotten massively off topic. Can we please let the thread end
> here?
be the great
satan, but I have never advocated military action in any of their lands,
except to get bin laden in 2002.
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Zé Loff wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2013, at 12:15 AM, Scott McEachern wrote:
>
>> On 10/08/13 17:38, Richard Thornton wrote:
>>> I am not flippa
The NSA is just a backdrop against the real corruption, which guys like
Sen. Ted Cruz, who intentionally manipulate the markets by threatening to
default on USA debt. Only an idiot would not assume these Senators are
selling their stocks before this stupid debate, drive the markets down,
buy on th
I am not flippant enough to say that the NSA revelations do not matter,
but what are we supposed to do? The Middle Eastern terrorism threat is
real and we need to be able to stop them anyway necessary.
All it takes is one of them to hit every Walmart in the neighborhood,
buy every pay-as-you-go p
I am glad to know that it is a "parody" account;
You can easily go to court, in order to force Twitter to give up the names
& contact info of those responsible for the parody account if you would
like to sue, but then any off-color public remarks you have actually made
could be turned against you.
I like both pine/alpine; Both compile with no tweaking.
Richard
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Eric Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
Mayuresh Kathe said:
hi, how do mailx users currently handle mime?
They don't. They install mutt, s-nail or whatever.
pine/alpine
E
I do not think that Cinnamon is available with OpenBSD.
But, I could easily be wrong.
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Roelof Wobben wrote:
Hello,
Before I try OpenBSd I have two questions.
1) The manual says that I can use pkg -upgrade
But how do I know which packages can be updated or which
se
So if one has a 5.3 release system running, but finds a desired package in
say 5.1, will pkg_add work on this, assuming I adjust the PKG_PATH to point
to a 5.1 package folder? Or will doing this cause other instabilities?
Thanks,
Richard
sometimes a mirror will time out, I have seen this, so I swap between
ftp3.usa.openbsd.org and ftp5.usa.openbsd.org; I have had very good
response from both of these; alos sometimes, a file is missing, and this
throws an error. Then I switch mirrors, kill the pkg_add process and
restart pkg_add.
This file located in /usr/local/bin
seems to prevent thunar from working properly on sparc64, when xfce is
running under a user. When xfce is running under a root account, there is
no problem. On amd64, there is no issue period.
On my sparc box, I removed this file, and now thunar works properly.
it still was not done.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Gregor Best wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:06:10AM -0400, Richard Thornton wrote:
> > I am curious - given that OpenBSD ships each RELEASE with X , but
> > applications like Firefox will not work without ins
I am curious - given that OpenBSD ships each RELEASE with X , but
applications like Firefox will not work without installing another DE, like
XFCE; why not ship OpenBSD with the basic X, but with the necessary
libraries to allow FireFox to run and other applications like R to output
graphics? Also
FYI: Trying to pkg_add this package for sparc64 using the
ftp3.usa.openbsd.org failed due to a broken package but
ftp5.usa.openbsd.orgwas ok.
My Sun Blade 100, has a fresh install of 5.3, and its very good, much
better than 5.1; XFCE is very stable and R is much better than prior
ports. you guys did a great job! Now this computer sits running actively,
with nothing to do! So lets run Seti on it, but alas, no recent binary for
OpenBSD
Time to drink a beer and chill out, dude!
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From: Justin LindbergSent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:01 PMTo:
misc@openbsd.orgReply To: Justin LindbergSubject: From the military
propaganda department
Excuse the Yahoo address.
Thats an old box.
On Saturday, March 24, 2012, Jeremy O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:12:11AM -0700, James Hozier wrote:
>> What's the latest ThinkPad that OpenBSD can be installed on, and have
everything functional without having to tweak any special settings within
OpenBSD?
>>
>
> I
Multi boot systems are definitely more risky to assemble; I prefer use of
VM's instead.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
> "While the FAQ is indeed clear, the installer's simplicity appears
> at that point a little deceptive, in that one (I know I was) is
> tempted to think t
Why not find a Windows box to dump the data to a Linux server? Problem
solved.
On Feb 19, 2012 8:54 AM, "Nick Guenther" wrote:
> Hiya misc@,
>
> Upfront: if you have something useful to say, CC me, please. I haven't
> been on this list in a while, managing to solve my own shit before having
> to
Thats a great tip. Thanks.
On Feb 8, 2012 5:32 AM, "Zi Loff" wrote:
> Just in case Richard Thornton is still listening, on OpenBSD 5.0 (i386)
> I managed to compile R properly using the aforementioned patch to the
> tre sources and passing '--with-cairo=no' as confi
Using OpenBSD 5 on an old sparc 64 sun blade, I am trying to compile R from
source, downloaded from the cran-r website;
The ./configure works, but make always fails. I realize that there is a R
package available already but it is a 2008 version, and it has terrible
graphics, anyone have a more rec
How do I add this window manager?
RT
I have no idea what that even is.
On Jan 27, 2012 4:56 PM, "Marius Strobl" wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 04:52:33PM -0500, Richard Thornton wrote:
> > Openbsd sparc64 installs flawlessly
> >
>
> Does it also use ATA_CAM?
>
> Marius
Now that I have it setup with the correct package path, etc, I am finding
out 5.0 is much better than 4.9 was;
Someone recently told me that Solaris uses SMI labels on its disks, is this
the same with OpenBSD?
RT
ho asked the "stupid" question is judged accordingly. One is either
"lazy" or "can't read", or "too stupid" to read the very "well written
FAQS", etc..
Whatever, so you guys have a great OS for yourselves. Excellent.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 a
precious inbox.
Nick Holland wrote:
>On 01/20/12 13:43, Richard Thornton wrote:
>> Eureka! You were right, I was using the *wrong* 5.0 release..
>
>You keep using words...that do not mean what you think they mean.
>
>PLEASE read and understand FAQ5.1. Its really, really important.
>
>Nick.
Eureka! You were right, I was using the *wrong* 5.0 release..
Richard
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:50:08AM -0500, Richard Thornton wrote:
>
> > Is this the most recent current version for sparc64 and does this imply
> &g
Is this the most recent current version for sparc64 and does this imply
that I have the true "current" kernel running, thus my PKG_PATH should be
set to pull for the "current" set of packages?
so
PKG_PATH = ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/packages/sparc64/
export PKG_PATH
will that AUTOMATICALLY use correct psackages for sparc64 on a CLEAN (from
the CDROM 11/2011)
5.0 install
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2012/01/19 10:09, lbvvbooo lbvvb
lack of info they mean you aren't providing near enough to come to
> any conclusion at all.
>
> Please paste the output from the following:
>
> dmesg, echo $PKG_PATH, pkg_info, pkg_add -i gnome-session
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Richard Thornton
&
keeps looking for library c.60.1 which does not exist in a vanilla 5.0
install.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Nick Holland
wrote:
> On 12/19/11 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2011-12-19, Richard Thornton wrote:
> >> Do a simple clean 5.0 install. One would
, but it needs it I am sure to install the package. I used the
vanillia CD straight off the openbsd website for sparc64.
Not sure what your suggestions will be, but this is not what the docs claim
will be the case.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Richard Thornton <
thornton.rich...@gmail.
they seem to be well made but debian linux is unstable.
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> It anyone wants to go right to Lemote and start selling on Amazon or
> direct in your area, they were priced at $280/ea in 10 qty about 2 years
> ago.
> So they're probably much cheap
You need some fucking valium.
On Jan 2, 2012 12:17 PM, "Nomen Nescio" wrote:
> > 1) you have no idea what it costs them to make one
>
> And you do, right?
>
> > 2) pure production cost isn't the entire picture
>
> Why not? They're using their own chip design. I doubt they pay MIPS.inc for
> a lic
What is the point of this thread? Huh? MIPS licenses the technology to a
Chinese fabricator; They make the chips and they are used in a very open
source netbook which Lemote happens to sell.; Stallman himself uses one.
>From his perspective, from an article I read, he stated he uses one because
buy an i3 instead, but what is the deign flaw which cannot be fixed via
microcode updates?
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:16 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
> On 12/30/11 21:23, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:42:43 -0500
>> "STeve Andre'" wrote:
>>
>> It's not the newest model, but the W
most netbooks with Intel Atom retail in the $250 to $400 range; what's
your damage?
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) <
mixmas...@remailer.privacy.at> wrote:
> > i saw them on face book and amazon also 250 & 500 us dollars
>
> Like Kurt Russell said, "That's TOO FUCKI
I used the advice from the blog called gab software. Perhaps he was wrong. I
am willing to reinstall. I have no personal data to lose on this old box.
Nick Holland wrote:
>On 12/19/11 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> On 2011-12-19, Richard Thornton wrote:
>>> Do
aniel Bolgheroni" wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:02:59PM -0500, Richard Thornton wrote:
> > it appears
> > that the packages in 4.9 are not always upgradeable to those in 5.0 and
> > most packages in 5.0 fail to install due to library dependencies.
>
> What?
&
I upgraded my sun blade 100 from 4.9 to 5.0; no issues but, it appears
that the packages in 4.9 are not always upgradeable to those in 5.0 and
most packages in 5.0 fail to install due to library dependencies. one
would assume all 5.0 packages are created using the dev tools from 5.0 but
this does
Fritz Wuehler wrote:
diana
Hey diana, how about a fucking blowjob? You're not good for anything else so
let's see how you are at that.
Am I missing something here? fucking(blowjob(*p)) ?
Try www.tekmote.nl
Richard
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> The prices at the "official European shop" in the Netherlands are sky high.
> I thought this was supposed to be a 150 dollar PC. Does anybody have a good
> cheap source for these or other MIPS boxes? Thanks.
I wonder how much c++ the Russian programmer from Goldman is doing these
days?!
On Dec 2, 2011 4:35 PM, "Tekk" wrote:
> It's that way in the US too, afaict(C is 'deprecated')
>
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Dmitrij Czarkoff wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:11 PM, David Riley
>> wrote:
>>
>>> one ha
All this talk about who is a bigger hacker is like muscle flexing in the
mirror.
On Dec 2, 2011 4:29 PM, "David Riley" wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Dmitrij Czarkoff wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:11 PM, David Riley
> wrote:
> >> one has to know C before knowing C++
> >
> > Well,
Not looking for free support or any support. This box is merely a toy. I
have two laptops both 64 bit for serious work.
On Dec 2, 2011 6:34 AM, "Rudolf Leitgeb" wrote:
> Am Freitag, 2. Dezember 2011, 06:13:42 schrieb Richard Thornton:
> > I came to openbsd only recently tryi
I came to openbsd only recently trying to find a modern OS which will run on my
old sun blade 100. I wanted to use a linux but the only current linux for
sparc64 is debian 6.03 and it seems incompatible with the rage xl video on the
sun blade giving me out of sync errors. Openbsd seems to hav
I have known geniuses who were computer illiterate.
On Dec 1, 2011 5:58 PM, "Eric Oyen" wrote:
> like any other population, we have our parrots, non-thinkers, OCD,
> Bi-polar,
> stupid or the otherwise normal. we also have more than a few extremely
> intelligent people.
>
> one thing I have notic
Dear,
Hope you everything goes well.I find a good company to buy Louis
vuitton,Gucci,Chanel,bags,wallet etc... products recently.
Now it is under sales promotion.they provide the attractive service
and price to customers!
It is really a good chance for shopping. Just grasp the opportunity,
Now or n
Hi
I have donated, my hard earned. I don't involve myself commercially
in OBSD but I listen.
This is idiotic, a big hole was found and the devs pissed about
because they didn't want to admit it.
OBSD's strength is in being open, be open.
Move on and end this.
Theo, chill out.
Cheers
Rich
Hi
I have a PC that I recently installed OpenBSD (OpenBSD
openbsd.acme.com 4.0 GENERIC.MP#936 i386) on, which is great stuff,
only problem I have is ftp does not work?
So i try ftp x.x.x.x and I see my PC in my firewall logs accessing
127.0.0.1:8021, is something to do with ftp-proxy?
This PC i
Thanks Jason,
Can someone tell me is ipcomp working, if so, how do I use it and does
it support deflate?
Cheers
Richard
On 23/01/07, Jason McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:04:51PM +1100, Richard Thornton wrote:
>
> Just trying to ascertain if ipcomp
Hi
Just trying to ascertain if ipcomp(4) is fully integrated with
ipsecctl(8), if it is can someone detail the ipsec.conf(5) config to
use it, also does it support RFC2394 IP Payload Compression Using
DEFLATE?
Thanks for your time.
Kind Regards
Richard Thornton
Hi
OpenBSD rocks and I have donated to this great cause :-)
Hope you can help. So I have the following setup:
DMZ
|
|
LAN-OpenBSD/PF/Snort?--Internet
So in a nutshell I want to drop packets (not sessions) that match a IDS
signat
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