On 29 October 2010 12:58, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Would you please consider uploading an iso image of your OpenBSD
> 4.8 to some public tracker such as thepiratebay.org?
>
> If you are unfamiliar with the process of making an iso-image out
> of a CD, or if you need help with the generation and upload
2009/4/17 Marco Peereboom
> I work with people that run io tools against flash parts. I still have
> to see it fail too. Your puny little firewall will never write more to
> it than a month long stress test. This write fatigue argument is very
> silly.
Hey! My firewall may be puny in statur
perms to fix,
however is this something that needs to be fixed at a root server?
I installed on various i386 systems, at work and home, from an
official OpenBSD 4.2 CD. I have tried various mirrors, with the same
errors as above.
Shane J Pearson
On 06/01/2008, at 9:47 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
Would you be so kind as to tell me the precise URLs where you
found those quotes? If not, I will look for someone else who
will do that for me.
You know that saying, "if you want something done right, you do it
yourself"?
I'd be adhering
On 06/01/2008, at 3:28 AM, Karthik Kumar wrote:
On another hand we are not GNU/GPL and we don't mind our users
installing
non free software if it is what they want. The FAQ is where this
needs to
be documented for users to get their job done faster.
If you don't mind users using non-free
On 06/01/2008, at 1:57 AM, Diana Eichert wrote:
Any EE worth their weight in salt understands signal processing. I
do believe a lot of younger engineers have grown up in the 1 & 0
digital world and forget about analog.
I think the first computers I witnessed in a work place, were actually
On 04/01/2008, at 12:21 PM, Harpalus a Como wrote:
Myth? Why are you so upset about this? It's not myth.
The techniques involved in recovering data in the manner Marco and
the NSA,
DoD, and many others describe isn't a matter of running a simple
software
tool. It's a long, slow, annoying pr
On 04/01/2008, at 8:19 AM, Brad Tilley wrote:
One pass from /dev/zero is more than enough for all cases.
I agree that after a single pass of zeroes, getting anything but
zeroes from a fully working, unaltered drive is not going to happen.
But if you remove the digital logic which masks res
available soon
:-)
Frickin works for me on OpenBSD 4.0...
http://frickin.sourceforge.net/
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
from a long-term open wound. Symantec
then provides creative "research" that makes that open wound look
best. Talk about a conflict of interest.
Symantec have been trying to demonise OS X for a long while.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
list for
penis size (and whatever its female equivalent would be). Money is not
the only way to contribute to a project.
I agree. The value of a dollar differs a great deal between different
people.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
an English version linked from the bottom of that page:
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/86757
Although this "news" item looks like the typical over-hyped hysterics
I have come to expect from journalists.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
On 13/02/2007, at 10:07 PM, frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:56:24PM +1100, Shane J Pearson said
that
On 13/02/2007, at 8:18 PM, frantisek holop wrote:
how am i (and fdisk) supposed to make partitions on CHS boundaries
if instead of 19457/255/63 fdisk sees the disk as
and those numbers are
faked due to working around legacy limitations?
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
Vim,
On 17/01/2007, at 7:57 AM, Vim Visual wrote:
loosen up, I was just asking...
You asked in a BSD mailing list, what people would think about having
OpenBSD licensed under the GPL3.
What were you expecting? Hugs?
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
On 16/01/2007, at 5:07 PM, Nikolay Sturm wrote:
the next OpenBSD Mini Hackathon will be the Filesystem Hackathon
- hardware to build a raid with 2 or more TB
Wow, this sounds really exciting.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
systems.
Within disklabel, I use "D" to set default values and then "b" to set
the OpenBSD disk boundaries. Since I dedicate drives for OpenBSD,
that's from the beginning, to the end "*".
This has always fixed that problem for me.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
On 06/12/2006, at 12:14 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote:
It's the anti-unix newbie avoidance system. I propose a source
change to rm
that *after* it has completed removing / it then displays a dialog
that "the
system would prefer it if you ran windows millennium". ;)
Oh man, that's low. I can und
On 30/11/2006, at 10:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
guys i want to hear some comments / suggestions from you. we are
planning
to network a company. using a cat5e, the 2 pairs(4 wires) will be
using
for LAN and the remaining 2 pairs(4 wires) will be use for pabx.
1000BASE-T requires all 4
On 29/11/2006, at 2:05 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote:
C'mon! Stick to the real topic!
I love tail, personally. When that doesn't do it, then head usually
works.
Careful doing that in a public forum. If you get caught, your GF/wife
might use split on you.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp ne
sticks, sushi and tap water.
I hope you don't eat fugu! That would be blasphemy!
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
On 22/11/2006, at 10:27 PM, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
I have ordered, because perceived OpenBSD as cool at that time. Now
I don't see
OpenBSD as cool anymore. The motivation for buying more is away.
I am considering switching back to Gentoo on next major problem
because the
illusion of friendl
in my 5
interface Sun U10 firewall at home, but I only have 2 sk's (out of a
desired 4) which work in it.
Shane J Pearson (hoping to see some affordable 4 interface sk NIC's)
shanejp netspace net au
ing in for the first time... and X just comes up.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
Hello,
On 08/11/2006, at 11:01 AM, Jason LaRiviere wrote:
Shane J Pearson wrote:
Hello,
I am getting an error in if_em.c when trying to build a -stable
kernel
on sparc64. It stops with this error:
/usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_em.c: In function `em_rxeof':
/usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_em.c
" rev 0x14: ivec
0x7d1, using 4K of on-board RAM
scsibus2 at siop1: 16 targets
pcons at mainbus0 not configured
No counter-timer -- using %tick at 440MHz as system clock.
root on sd0a
siop0: target 0 now using tagged 16 bit 20.0 MHz 16 REQ/ACK offset xfers
rootdev=0x700 rrootdev=0x1100 rawdev=0x1102
Any pointers to where I am going wrong, or how I can fix this, would
be very appreciated.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
work for
you, you might have better luck starting from a clean VMware disk
image and re-installing those OS' within it. Since the VMware machine
will likely have different hardware.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
On 21/10/2006, at 1:38 PM, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
[5] stored data.Later I'm too drunk now:)
Can't wait. Somehow I think this thing they call a "moment of
clarity" is highly over rated.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
just pass the IP traffic
through to your OpenBSD firewall/router. The MODEMs you have now
might already be capable of doing that for you. BTW, the MODEM does
not perform NAT, so your firewall will still face the bare Internet.
PS, you are really rude.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
x27;s what happens when you use a system which is developed well and
as a whole.
You can get used to that with OpenBSD. Enjoy!
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
ave a clue. If
you need to spend a lot of time managing management and the problems
they create, then it might be better for your career and sanity to
move on.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
gle developer,
for what they do with their skills. I wouldn't dare expect anything
in return. I am merely grateful for what I get.
I hope this is the end of this ridiculous waste of time. A single,
pro-OpenBSD, throw away comment should not have come to this.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
Breen,
I am replying to this in full because I want my intentions known.
I'll leave it at this.
On 12/10/2006, at 2:58 AM, Breen Ouellette wrote:
Jack J. Woehr wrote:
On Oct 10, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Shane J Pearson wrote:
By "interesting", you mean one is well meaning, but a
"interesting", you mean one is well meaning, but a little kooky
and not always in touch with reality and the other is focused and
committed to maintaining some sanity in the world of computing?
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
ility will be addressed in OpenBSD 4.0.
We users are counting on you James. You are our only hope.
Shane J Pearson
t (monthly) whole disk image backups to quickly recover from a
failed disk. Re-installing Windows anything or even Mac OSX to a much
lesser extent, is a pain in the bum.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
use solid core wire which is thick enough to poke into the
holes.
Shane J Pearson
shanejp netspace net au
Hi Karel,
On 06/09/2006, at 6:13 AM, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
So the possible values for dev= according to this "documentation"
are so far
dev=0,0,0
dev=/dev/cd0a:0,0,0
dev=/dev/cd0c:0,0,0
dev=/dev/rcd0a:0,0,0
I use:
cdrecord dev=/dev/rcd0c
^ ^
Which works fine for me.
Sh
Hi Joachim,
On 01/09/2006, at 11:11 PM, Joachim Schipper wrote:
Now *that* would suck. Most of my i386 boxes won't read a DVD, and I'm
fairly certain that getting a sparc to read a DVD isn't as easy as
making a i386 do the same.
I have a Lite-On DVD-ROM drive temporarily hanging off a Sun Ult
Hi Joe,
On 2006.08.10, at 3:12 PM, Joe wrote:
I recommend one of the new VIA EPIA CN-series boards.
They are based on the new C7 chips which have AES engine on
board...big plus for VPNs.
I just bought a EPIA-CN13000.
Is the hardware RNG quick with that CPU? Are you able to tell the
spee
Howdy folks,
Another article about blobs, with a positive mention to OpenBSD's
stance on them:
http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=598023&rl=1
Shane
On 2006.08.03, at 10:41 PM, Ryan Corder wrote:
First, get past the notion of "secure" wireless...it doesn't
exist. The best solution for a "more secure" wireless network
is for you to implement a WEP-encrypted environment and establish
a VPN over it.
What about an open wireless network, which
Hi Chris,
On 2006.08.01, at 2:00 PM, Chris Zakelj wrote:
Went back about two years in the MARC archives with the terms 'copy
drive' (oddly enough, 'dd' itself wouldn't work), and got plenty of
linux examples on Google (that pretty much say what I propose anyway)
but no luck... I'm hoping to fin
Travers,
On 2006.08.01, at 11:23 AM, Travers Buda wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:10:23 -0400
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If all is
lost, you can wipe the disk with BCWipe (www.jetico.com) then test
again with Spinrite. This has recovered several disks for me.
Wipe it with dd if=/dev/z
Why people give life to a thread which starts like this is beyond me...
> Hi I'm looking for clue. Does anyone have any?
Please stop. The most effective response at the beginning would have
been silence.
Hi Tony,
On 2006.07.10, at 12:17 PM, Tony Abernethy wrote:
"Security is a process"
Slogan for snake-oil?
I would prefer, "Security is an ongoing process".
Something which you can't just buy and be done with and something
which does not end.
Shane
Hi Nick,
On 2006.07.07, at 2:51 PM, Nick Guenther wrote:
I've used R-Studio and it works quite well (and quickly so long as you
keep your computer out of screensavers and things). It's somewhat
expensive at 100$. It works by just scanning the disk for signatures
of files, and is usually able to
Hello Vladas,
On 2006.07.06, at 9:56 PM, vladas wrote:
I have fd up the first 10Mb of the 3Gb fat disk
(not partition, the whole 3Gb disk) full of windoze
shit. Then, due to time limits, made some of sort
of backup of the mess with dd and put Puffy into
that disk (dedicated install). The pr
Hi Joakinen,
On 2006.06.28, at 11:24 PM, joakinen wrote:
Is there any "diagram" of how every piece of code retales to the
others?
I don't know how relevant it is to OpenBSD, if at all, but I seem to
remember getting a BSD TCP/IP network stack diagram poster with the
boxed set of TCP/IP I
Eliah,
On 2006.06.27, at 12:08 PM, Eliah Kagan wrote:
On 6/26/06, Damien Miller wrote:
just please don't bug people on OpenBSD lists about private hacks
like this.
I, for one, find discussion about private hacks like this to be
valuable. And I think it falls under the heading of, "Miscellane
Hi Jason,
On 2006.06.16, at 6:05 PM, Jason Stubbs wrote:
Very interesting article. However, I still don't see how ripped
audio might change on each ripping.
CD audio data was designed to be constantly streamed. Read into a
FIFO buffer, which in turn is read from a DAC with quartz precision
On 2006.06.07, at 2:42 PM, Breen Ouellette wrote:
Did you actually read and then understand my original post?
Yes. I replied because I just wanted to clarify that memtest86 can be
used to identify bad memory down to a stick, through the use of it
and a thorough testing process.
Telling s
Hi Breen,
On 2006.06.07, at 4:39 AM, Breen Ouellette wrote:
Of course not. It doesn't even tell you if your memory is bad.
It can if you use it to identify a potentially faulty module and then
move that module to another slot or machine and the problem follows
the module (as reported by m
Hi John,
On 2006.06.02, at 1:57 AM, John Brahy wrote:
For a couple weeks I was running without backups and one of the
drives died.
Is there a way to recover any of the data from the drives?
How dead is the drive and how desperate are you?
I have imaged a clients ide drive which was doing t
On 2006.04.30, at 11:34 PM, S t i n g r a y wrote:
enterprise firewall what is the diffrence between pf &
MS ISA / cisco pix or checkpoint ?
performance ? stability or features ?
Marketing which is designed to put a fright into people who have
responsibility for systems and data which are no
Hi Lasse,
On 2006.04.30, at 8:38 PM, Lasse Bach wrote:
"I also need to know if v5 of the WMP54G uses a Ralink Technology
RT25x0 chip?"
Are you unable to avoid it?
Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to:
2. Why are such information not available to their customer
On 2006.04.29, at 4:43 PM, Greg Thomas wrote:
Wow, I guess we had to be there.
Something like that. With only a few sleeps to go, some people are
feeling silly for Puffy.
It seems that a little silliness helps to fight against the sad
seriousness of what OpenBSD is up against...
http:/
On 2006.04.29, at 2:04 AM, S t i n g r a y wrote:
Well i just installed my First OpenBSD BOX :) feels
good !!! but to install packages i cannot find ports
collection in /usr how can i get them ? i am using 3.7
version.
You have chosen to use 3.7 just days before it will be unsupported
due to
/106455-11.README
Ultra 80109082
ftp://patches.sun.com/patchroot/all_unsigned/109082-05.zip
ftp://patches.sun.com/patchroot/all_unsigned/109082-05.README
Shane J Pearson
On 2006.04.14, at 11:05 PM, Srebrenko Sehic wrote:
Well, I wonder how people who pre-orded their CDs, got them,
installed 3.9-RELEASE and run Sendmail are going to patch their
systems?
Use the source code from the CD's themselves and then download the
patch from
http://www.openbsd.org/er
Gustavo,
On 2006.04.10, at 10:13 AM, Gustavo Rios wrote:
Excuse gentleman,
but i don't see any rationale behind that tense:
" one could argue that people who live in such places should
not have computers)"
I believe that's humour.
Who wants to code when you've got island life outsid
Hi Dave,
On 2006.04.09, at 7:03 PM, Dave Harrison wrote:
Is it not possible to configure in a way similar to a ppp & PPPoE
setup ??
I have a modem that I'm connecting to via ethernet, then it plugs
into the phone
line.
Does your MODEM have a half bridge mode? My DSL MODEM/router employs
Hi Alexandre,
On 2006.04.02, at 8:32 AM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
for the last step i used another box (pentium III at 550MHz), since
the
first one died.
A PC died in the making of that song? I hope you will dedicate that
song to him/her.
Great music BTW. Watch out Ty! ; )
Shane
Hi MichaE,
On 2006.02.24, at 10:24 PM, MichaE Koc wrote:
can someone confirm that 3Ware 9500S-12 does or does not work with
OpenBSD ?
Based on what I last I heard, I think the most important point is
that 3Ware the company, does not work with OpenBSD the project.
Shane
On 2006.03.24, at 5:23 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
http://openssh.com/usage/graphs.html
Wow, no wonder ssh.com spouts so much FUD. They are quickly
converging on extinction.
Thanks Theo,
On 2006.03.15, at 5:22 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Are these new programable cards capable of reading main memory, which
OpenBSD would not be able to prevent if machdep.allowaperture were
set to something other than 0?
Yes, they have DMA engines. If the privilege seperate X server
Hi Theo,
On 2006.03.14, at 9:41 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Well, recently we have changed our minds, because we still feel that
the aperture is too dangerous. And the vendors keep finding creative
ways to squeeze more and more evil into their video cards!
Please be aware that other operating sy
On 2006.03.10, at 1:29 AM, Craig wrote:
When the new edition of Artymiak's pf book comes out, I'll get that
through Wim, also.
Anyone heard any news about Jacek's new book? It's supposed to be put
out by O'reilly still? I've been eagerly awaiting it.
Shane
Hello Gustavo,
On 2006.03.04, at 2:51 AM, Gustavo Rios wrote:
These machine are very old, and hardware documentation has been lost.
It has a serial port, doesn't it?
Sun Ultra 1 Service Manual:
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/
802-3819-10.pdf
Sun Ultra 5/10 Serv
On 2006.02.27, at 1:45 PM, Sgt. Stedenko wrote:
Also, have there been any efforts into Ethernet device polling in
the bge
drivers? On a gigabit network the interrupts are eating a large
portion of
the cpu0 and thought it might help the situation.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-mis
ead Linux constantly read the file from disk
_extremely_ slowly (found on various Linux distros). Much much slower
than OpenBSD which also read the file from disk each time.
Is OpenBSD way too different now from NetBSD to port their UBC code?
Shane J Pearsonshanejp netspace net au
On 2006.02.17, at 1:37 AM, Shane J Pearson wrote:
I use this marker in my sig and newline manually in Apple Mail because
I haven't found out how to make Apple Mail wrap at 72.
For any OSX Mail and OpenBSD users who I might have led astray here,
forget I said this. Someone pointed out
to be working correctly...
I use this marker in my sig and newline manually in Apple Mail because
I haven't found out how to make Apple Mail wrap at 72.
Shane J Pearsonshanejp netspace net au ->|
g said all that, you really should be convincing him that a real
backup scheme should be employed. That is dodgy. The backups could be
corrupted through a multitude of ways or copied by a savvy malicious
staff member. What if there is a fire?
Shane J Pearsonshanejp netspace net au ->|
lames.
If you gave details in the first post, people here qualified to answer
could have put that to rest quickly and you would not be building up a
reputation.
Bye for now,
Shane J Pearsonshanejp netspace net au ->|
nt since he has apparently become the victim of a hacker.
I wonder if Dave is finding himself torn between asking questions here
to people he respects a great deal and not wanting to ask because of the
responses he has been getting?
Shane J Pearsonshanejp netspace net au ->|
fer, which then gets sent to the display like any other image at that
given resolution?
But this resolution is limited to that which the card uses and going
beyond that would require a software controlled text to high-res
frame buffer?
Shane J Pearsonshanejp netspace net au ->|
r those details into the
MODEM and have it perform as a half-bridge.
Maybe this would be a solution for you? I'm really happy with the DG632
and have been considering buying another to keep as a spare, because
I've had trouble in the past with other DSL MODEM's which claim
sions of Windows). I encourage you to look at the
numbers reported at the OpenBSD site to verify that this is true.
~~~
Shane J Pearsonshanejp netspace net au ->|
Howdy,
http://www-8.ibm.com/e-business/au/operations/businesses.shtml?
ca=auhomepage&me=odb&met=051209defence
; )
Shane
nt on long term to help out there though. My old low power clamshell
iBook would be great for that.
Bye for now,
Shane J Pearson
st come in an instant. I'm not talking about Bittorrent
here either, I'm talking about the VMware image.
Shane J Pearson
On 29/12/2005, at 8:01 PM, RedShift wrote:
I've set up a RAID 0 set on two 9 GB SCSI disks, using an Adaptec
AAA-131U2 controller. However, when I want to install OpenBSD on it, I
get asked for which disk should be the root disk. Ofcourse, I see two
disks, sd0 and sd1. This probably means that t
Craig,
On 08/12/2005, at 11:05 AM, Craig Skinner wrote:
I'm going to be buying some hardware for offiste colos next year
and was
thinking of getting some used Netras.
The Sparc64 support page: http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html
Shows various Netra machines as being supported.
Shane
eresting discussions, however there has
been an annoying amount of worthless chest beating lately. Like a
gorilla, it seems to be all show.
Shane J Pearson
s one? Seems
practical to me.
Shane J Pearson
mplain about in the past.
Completely different to the DGE-530T.
Shane J Pearson
Henning's English is better than yours.
Can this be dropped now? Or do you need to continue making a big deal
out of nothing?
Shane J Pearson
ike I'd expect from a political campaign. I almost
expect you to end it with "Vote [1] J Moore".
Shane J Pearsonshanejp netspace net au ->|
sh the log files."
o Crisis averted.
I don't know who Henning is, and I don't know what he voted "no"
to, but
if he voted against a clear log message, then he voted "yes" to
confusion.
Come on. You've been haunting these lists for long enough to know wh
firewall which has been
r/w for a little more than 6 months now. Nothing special as far as
logging goes yet. No problems. Took the plunge after Henning pointed out
the Sandisk longevity calculations document.
Shane J Pearson
n
dies choking on it. Then the elephant it blamed.
Shane J Pearson
On 06/11/2005, at 3:32 PM, Damien Miller wrote:
Don't bother giving the publication the benefit of the page
impressions.
If anyone still wants to read it, but wish to avoid the adverts, this is
the printer friendly version:
http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=424451
tantially similar" can be _ridiculously_ miniscule.
Shane J Pearson
make them go away.
; )
Shane J Pearson
ferent days of the week. So as to
minimize load on the staging desktop and also minimize potential damage.
Or am I missing something which makes this impractical or impossible?
Fork is no solution, as far as I can see. Just the opposite is needed.
Absolutely.
Shane J Pearson
grove, Uwe Stuehler, Vincent Labrecque, Wilbern Cobb,
Wim Vandeputte, Xavier Santolaria.
all you guys for your fantastic efforts and achievements!
Shane J Pearson
full of zeroes and then delete
that file, so that gzip can do a good job with areas of the file system
which held old less-compressible data. For Windows file systems I use
Eraser to do the same.
http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
Shane J Pearson
the greatest thing about OpenBSD, is the developers. They did
after all, make OpenBSD what it is today. Fork OpenBSD and you'll be
loosing them. That seems like a pretty extreme loss to me.
Shane J Pearson
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