Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Travers Buda
* Ted Unangst [2009-09-15 18:16:47]: > First, it uses 128-bits, and second, the practical attacks against > blowfish are what exactly? _Only_ 128 bits? It clearly needs more. More bits man, more bits! It's not about the number of bits. -- Travers Buda > > Third, if you c

Re: Where is "Secure by default" ?

2009-03-10 Thread Travers Buda
y and malice can cause headaches. Stupidity is probably worse in my opinion due to its frequency. Maliciousness is a lot less frequent, but worse in magnitude... well, I suppose this all depends on how good of an admin you are! -- Travers Buda

Re: Nvidia bug

2009-02-13 Thread Travers Buda
veral matrox G450's that broke with libpciaccess in X. I could (if the antispam were not so aggressive) send in a bug report or I could just get some new hardware. What's the consensus here? -- Travers Buda

Re: OT: Free, online backup service provider compatible with BSD

2009-02-13 Thread Travers Buda
etch your offsites shouldn't advertise (for stealing) who they are > or what they do. i'm thinking of the big trucks i've seen that have to > do with a big mountain and a ferromagnetic element. > > i just recently hired one of these companies for $work, and wasn't too > comfortable with the mobile advertisements. > > Use some simple crypto on your backups? -- Travers Buda

Re: USB RFID Reader misreads

2008-11-21 Thread Travers Buda
e the Reader more > time before attempting to read the Card. > > Thanks and best regards, > David > > A dmesg would help. In all likelyhood, your hardware is not following the HID spec. -- Travers Buda

Re: dvorak keyboard not working

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
* Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-02 21:33:10]: > * Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-02 23:53:54]: > > > Of course this sets the layout for the console, not X. Some efforts were > > made to make X recognize and use the layout used by wscons

Re: wd0(wdc1:0:0): timeout on openbsd 4.0 macppc

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
* Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-02 22:56:49]: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If imaging a failing disk is what you really want, then I recommend ddrescue > > http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

Re: wd0(wdc1:0:0): timeout on openbsd 4.0 macppc

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
> it bombs out asking for the next media to be inserted after 4gb's. > > > > Doesn't matter what I try still only dumps 4gb's. The system is a g4 > which is a 32bit cpu which is the only clue I thought of that would > limit me to 4gb's. > > > khalid > > If imaging a failing disk is what you really want, then I recommend ddrescue http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html gnu bleh. -- Travers Buda

Re: dvorak keyboard not working

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
> > Cheers, > Jona > > Xorg only uses /etc/kbdtype if you're running without an xorg.conf. -- Travers Buda

Re: 2200 MHz on a 2.00GHz

2008-09-02 Thread Travers Buda
Duo CPU T5670 @ 1.80GHz ("GenuineIntel" > 686-class) > *snip* > > -- > Vladimir Kirillov > http://darkproger.net > > According to intel, your processor does not exist! http://processorfinder.intel.com -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD at Defcon 16

2008-08-16 Thread Travers Buda
raffic can be analyzed and recorded for the > competitions." > > -woss- > > Are they protecting DefCon from the internet or the internet from DefCon? -- Travers Buda

Re: atheros - just curious, ot

2008-07-29 Thread Travers Buda
ot have needed to pay anybody and it would have taken less time. This has nothing to do about opening up--they want more market share. Incidentally, how many 802.11 stacks does linux have now? -- Travers Buda

Re: GPL version 4

2008-07-16 Thread Travers Buda
* Reading (and actually understanding) the GPL could easily drive a sane man, with no drug abuse or family history of mental illness, completely insane due to its ever-increasing complexity. -- Travers Buda

Re: This is what Linus Torvalds calls openBSD crowd

2008-07-16 Thread Travers Buda
#x27;s sake: > > free, FUNCTIONAL, secure. choose all three. Says so on the T-shirt. > > Jah. Wow Linus, apparently making your code such that it is actually stable and working is not a priority? Infact, itstead of not being a priority at all its actually considered BAD? Linus is a nutjob! -- Travers Buda

Re: UPDATE: mozilla-firefox-3.0

2008-07-16 Thread Travers Buda
27;t remember the last time that flash improved my computing experience. Finally, I hate to rattle the paranoia sabre... but flash is just another way into a box on an increasingly hostile web. -- Travers Buda

Re: IBM x335 1u server advice

2008-07-16 Thread Travers Buda
these, and I think they're fairly common around these parts. Yes, USB keyboards work just fine. -- Travers Buda

Re: Debian libssl security (Cause???)

2008-05-16 Thread Travers Buda
have figured it out. This is a pretty big screw-up--it was in the tree since September 2006. You don't do something this bad and not learn from it =). -- Travers Buda

Re: Time for OBSD everywhere?

2008-05-16 Thread Travers Buda
g in terms of security. However, if the diverse population is made up of buggy crap, then you see less of a benefit. The worst case scenario is when you have a single operating system having a majority, and being crappy. -- Travers Buda

Re: asus eee ethernet and 4.3

2008-05-13 Thread Travers Buda
e man page there then? > > -f > -- > oxymoron: mobil station. > > See http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html -- Travers Buda

on K8M800: k8pnow_read_pending_wait: change pending stuck. hangs machine [solved]

2008-05-08 Thread Travers Buda
;m currently using. So: avoid the K8M800 unless you have a cache of video cards and you don't mind which one you use. Hell, I'd just avoid the K8M800, the damn integrated video on the chip does not play well with the rest of the chip! Seriously, guys. -- Travers Buda

Re: Question about hard limits

2008-04-21 Thread Travers Buda
nks for any input you may have. > > Sincerely, > > Tom > > > __ > Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! > > http://www.flickr.com/gift/ > > Also see login.conf(5) and ulimit. -- Travers Buda

Re: Is there a "badblocks"-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-20 Thread Travers Buda
rive is performing better/won't be replaced under warranty. This sounds paranoid, but some companies are just obsessed with making more money rather than a quality product. -- Travers Buda

Re: Is there a "badblocks"-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-20 Thread Travers Buda
ow much more failure in the new "perpendicular" drives you are seeing. I can certainly see various drive makers pushing capacity irrespective of reliability. Germane to this case, some of them reduce the reserve storage for bad sectors for that extra storage. Tisk tisk. -- Travers Buda

Re: Is there a "badblocks"-equivalent for OpenBSD?

2008-04-18 Thread Travers Buda
file back to the device and delete the > backup. > > This kludge could be used as a poor man's badblocks, if that's not > available, but it does require that twice the size of the device is > available in terms of disk space. > Yes, it's kinda horrible and probably useless in most situations, but > there we go. ;-) > > Thanks and regards, > --ropers > > I don't know if anyone brought this up, and I hate to state the obvious, but if you're getting bad blocks then the hard drive has exhausted its ability to deal with them on its own and should be replaced. Otherwise you'll see data loss/corruption and a higher probability of a total drive failure. -- Travers Buda

Re: SSD drives: performance gain

2008-04-14 Thread Travers Buda
ractive, but i'd like to hear > some about some real world experiences before doling out serious money for > the drives. > > cheers, > jake > > -- > > Here's some stats for you. http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4258 -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD PRNG DNS Cache Poisoning and Predictable IP ID Weakness - fixed?

2008-03-13 Thread Travers Buda
hy anybody would be reluctant to work out some new algorithm, because the problem is not in the algorithm, but in the implementations that need it. You'll probably see this problem crop up over and over and over. I believe what was changed in the Open tree came from / was inspired by DragonFly. -- Travers Buda

Re: umsm(4) device attaches to ugen(4) instead

2008-03-05 Thread Travers Buda
* Aaron Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-05 14:25:19]: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And did you see this in the man page? > > > > CAVEATS > > For Verizon Wireless (and possibly other services),

Re: umsm(4) device attaches to ugen(4) instead

2008-03-05 Thread Travers Buda
exception 16 > biomask effd netmask effd ttymask > pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled > mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support > ugen0 at uhub2 port 1ugen1 at uhub4 port 1 > ugen0: Sierra Wireless Sierra Wireless MC5720 Modem, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 > > ugen1: Broadcom Corp BCM2045B, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 > ugen2 at uhub4 port 2 > ugen2: STMicroelectronics Biometric Coprocessor, rev 1.00/0.01, addr 3 > dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 > root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b > > And did you see this in the man page? CAVEATS For Verizon Wireless (and possibly other services), cards require a one- time activation before they will work; umsm does not currently support this. -- Travers Buda

Re: umsm(4) device attaches to ugen(4) instead

2008-03-05 Thread Travers Buda
onsole keyboard, using wsdisplay0 > pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) > pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot > wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 > pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 > midi0 at pcppi0: > spkr0 at pcppi0 > aps0 at isa0 port 0x1600/31 > npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 > biomask effd netmask effd ttymask > pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled > mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support > ugen0 at uhub2 port 1ugen1 at uhub4 port 1 > ugen0: Sierra Wireless Sierra Wireless MC5720 Modem, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 > > ugen1: Broadcom Corp BCM2045B, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 > ugen2 at uhub4 port 2 > ugen2: STMicroelectronics Biometric Coprocessor, rev 1.00/0.01, addr 3 > dkcsum: sd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 > root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b > > Please send the output of usbdevs -v. -- Travers Buda

Re: The Dilbert Problem...

2008-03-05 Thread Travers Buda
at you describe. I don't think it's an issue with the stub resolver, since I've not seen this with any other application that is or runs on OpenBSD. It is very likely this is a bug in the firefox/mozilla code which I have suspected before is DNS-related but could be so many other things as well. -- Travers Buda

Re: More questions on building a release with a read only source tree

2008-02-25 Thread Travers Buda
* Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-25 07:24:45]: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why on earth are you bothering with this? Please don't tell me > > it's for security, because that would be inane

Re: Sun Creator 3D hardware wanted

2008-02-25 Thread Travers Buda
nated (to oga@, not me) for this purpose? An old ultra 10 for > example. > > Thanks > > -- > > Best Regards > Edd > > http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett > > I have a ultra 10 w/creator that I will ship in the 48 continental US. -- Travers Buda

Re: More questions on building a release with a read only source tree

2008-02-25 Thread Travers Buda
> > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /home/4.2/src/etc (line 11 of etc.amd64/Makefile.inc). > > What is the point of the above, and how can I get the path correct for > this build? > > Thanks, > > Don > > Why on earth are you bothering with this? Please don't tell me it's for security, because that would be inane. -- Travers Buda

Re: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2008-02-21 Thread Travers Buda
with liquid hydrocarbons and liquid nitrogen...you > got bigger security problems than your memory not forgetting. > > Nick. > > It beats me why anyone with physical access would go to the effort of injecting liquid whatnot into your box. Like Nick says, if you have physical access, there are so many ways to attack the machine. I've seen a modern x86 machine have the video display survive a brief shutdown. Two or three seconds. -- Travers Buda

Re: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2008-02-21 Thread Travers Buda
the CPU or the > chipset is at all programmable? It sounds like the ideal place to put > this. > > Doug. > I agree, if your kernel or program that is responsible for overwriting memory gets hosed, hardware would be the best place for this since software faults are likely. However, this just lends itself to the absurdity that is overwriting memory: a hardware module to overwrite memory? nuts. -- Travers Buda

Re: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2008-02-21 Thread Travers Buda
order of several minutes. Also, anybody who puts confidential information on a craptop is downright stupid. -- Travers Buda

Re: amd64 - bootloader and BIOS see 16gb ram, kernel does not

2008-02-11 Thread Travers Buda
ssue. > > I wonder if the fix for Compaq's with more than 16 MB of ram would be > applicable? See the FAQ section 4.12.1. > > The fix involves a boot> prompt command and if it works, a line in > /etc/boot.conf > > Good luck. > > Doug. > > The developers need hardware to tackle this. -- Travers Buda

Re: Problems with -current in CVS?

2008-01-22 Thread Travers Buda
g file checked into CVS or am I missing > > something? From what I can determine, there is no > > "../../../../conf/files" but there is "../../../conf/files" (one > > directory closer to /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf : ie., > > /usr/src/sys/conf/). > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Colby W. > > > > [1] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html > > -- Travers Buda

Re: Sun Ultra 5

2008-01-17 Thread Travers Buda
earn a new OS when reading MAN-pages equals pain (due to 3-4 sec. wait > > every page I scroll) > > Thats a hardware limitation I believe. > > If you get a creator3d or xvr500 that will go away. My ultra 5 > (without creator) used to be like that. > Yeah, a creator3d will do hardware acceleration on the console, but good luck putting that in an ultra 5 case. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD on ia64

2007-12-20 Thread Travers Buda
wanted > to work on an itanic port. I'm sure he'll post something here, eventually. > > diana > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Travers Buda wrote: > >> * Eduardo Alvarenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-20 17:13:06]: >> >>> Any news regarding OpenBSD

Re: OpenBSD on ia64

2007-12-20 Thread Travers Buda
I had a pair of Dell 7150's, and now I have several itanium processor paper weights. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
ve any ambiguity so long as people understand what the GPL is. Atleast it won't result in misleading people like "free software" can. -- Travers Buda

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
ass judgement? You want us to suspend our minds? For a human to do that, it means death. We survive only because we can think. To pass judgement is paramount. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Francis Bacon You can't go blithely tromping around this world, proclaiming that small pebbles are food and expect to survie. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
* David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-15 13:27:26]: > Travers Buda wrote: > > * David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-14 14:39:49]: > >> > >> Put away the licenses and open up your mind. God did not write the > >> licenses,

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
omeone all the while inserting that disclaimer every damn time I use a word. However, I have to agree, Stallman's arguments are rhetorical, they do contain equivocations on words like free. Marco, if you can develop a new system of lexicons, I'd be glad to use it. What are you talking about? There is free beer! =) It's a beer that you did not pay for, so for all intents and purposes to you, it is free. I'll buy you one sometime. Hehe. -- Travers Buda

Re: UUCP to mars

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
Yeah quantum entanglement sure would be something neat to exploit. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Travers Buda
stand the difference between free and open source software, let alone what GPL-free-as-in-speech (for lack of a better term) is all about. All they know is free-as-in-beer. Hell, even most of the big linux players don't "get it." -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Travers Buda
> > like to help, please let me know. It is an important project. It means you are trying to force people! Stallman, you are so steeped in hypocrisy, you aught to submit a picture of yourself to various dictionaries. P.S. It can't be that difficult to remove the "add plugin" feature in mozilla firefox. Do you not code anymore? -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Travers Buda
dentally, I did have respect for before this thread. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Travers Buda
gn X.org in a crappy way so said blobs can be used Security... It's not because of some ethical reason. Do your homework before you accuse people. -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-12 Thread Travers Buda
Hell, still on this example user, adobe flash could even come installed and they never use it, what's the difference between that and gNewSense? Is it the orientation of the bits on their hard drive that matters? How about their neighbor's hard drive? Where do you draw the line? -- Travers Buda

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Travers Buda
he exact same case with the 100% FSF-approved linux distributions Stallman suggested. People do not run non free software on these distributions. It's not because they can't, it's because they don't want to. An aside: The GPL does its job, but only if people put that license on their software. So remember--people's wills, not the license. -- Travers Buda

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Travers Buda
et this one go now? There's always going to be someone respected taking shots at you. Talking about it gets noting accomplished. -- Travers Buda

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-06 Thread Travers Buda
pers (GASP!) And think of all the other ways you could be compromised, which most are much easier to implement. Hardware keyloggers Social engineers Bad passwords Physical Security? etc. And just what are they going to get? Do you have some sort of cloak-and-dagger data on your box? -- Travers Buda

Re: [plz. help] constant attack from: 201.244.17.162, 222.231.60.88, 82.207.116.209....

2007-11-26 Thread Travers Buda
ow and come back at > > later time when someone had posted some solution on > > the list. > > > > My box is behind router-NAT which is allowing ssh. I > > am not sure how this guy can get to my box which has > > pvt IP address from the internet thru the firewall. > http://openbsd.org/faq/pf/filter.html Source tracking options is _perfect_ for this. A strong password never hurt either. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Travers Buda
m to > reinstall my laptop. > > //art I've always found the immutable bsd.rd to be a safe bet. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Travers Buda
hemselves :p > Yeah, but people think you're uber-leet when you bust out three machines in a coffee shop and use them all at the same time. Yes, I do have six hands. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Travers Buda
gt; > > > What do they mean by this? > > > > poor dude pbly cannot do adding proper in his disklabel... > > MATH WORKS BITCHES! > > 'poor dude' probably never even tried... did you actually read the comic? > meh. I find it more interesting that "BSD" appearently defaults to > OpenBSD and not FreeBSD here. > > -Nick > That's because FreeBSD _is_ linux, with perhaps a bit more mature codebase. =P -- Travers Buda

Re: howto restored rm-ed files/directory

2007-11-24 Thread Travers Buda
nd the blocks likely >> reused quickly. no chance for "undelete" on unix. >> > > Yep.. totally agree.. > Jesus saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD/i386 won't boot on Transmeta Efficeon CPU

2007-11-24 Thread Travers Buda
* Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-24 06:13:45]: *snip* > > can you build and boot a kernel with option CPU_DEBUG in the config? > Actually use option CPUDEBUG, note the missing underscore. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD/i386 won't boot on Transmeta Efficeon CPU

2007-11-23 Thread Travers Buda
}, { @@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ void tm86_cpu_setup(struct cpu_info *ci) { -#if !defined(SMALL_KERNEL) && defined(I586_CPU) +#if !defined(SMALL_KERNEL) && defined(I586_CPU) || defined(I686_CPU) longrun_init(); #endif } -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD from scratch

2007-11-11 Thread Travers Buda
n that I'm starting to see get blended. That's for a different rant though. -- Travers Buda

Re: misc rejects because of sender verify

2007-11-06 Thread Travers Buda
o visible effect > on the spam tsunami... I still get hundreds of spams daily. They turn the > MTA configuration task from a fifteen puzzle into a sixteen puzzle. > > CL< > To get to misc: Spoof your envelope header (I use sendmail -f via mutt) and relay your mail through your ISP's mail servers. This avoids FQDN and dynamic IP issues for me. -- Travers Buda

Re: apm -S freezes the laptop

2007-11-01 Thread Travers Buda
rrying about. It's likely not going to work. Causes: Buggy BIOS. Poor design of APM/ACPI. Poor implementation of the aforementioned. Other misc reasons. I've pretty much never seen it work on any OS, anywhere. And IMHO, it's hopeless, if not a pain in the ass, to get vendor specific specs for every machine out there, test all of them, etc. -- Travers Buda

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-25 Thread Travers Buda
uld have to be made would be drastic, and likely incompatible. IMHO, virtualization is a technology that needs to be built from the ground up, and not brutally hacked ontop of the already horrid x86 architecture. -- Travers Buda

Re: Sun Systems

2007-09-19 Thread Travers Buda
e power supplies from the 5 and 20's. These have a propensity to kick the bucket. He's in France. -- Travers Buda

Re: kernel/5563: ipv6 traffic causes page fault trap

2007-08-23 Thread Travers Buda
- Forwarded message from Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:43:53 -0500 From: Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Janjaap van Velthooven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: kernel/5563: ipv6 traffic causes page fault trap In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL P

Re: OpenBSd or HP-UX?

2007-08-22 Thread Travers Buda
enBSD and HP-UX can do LDAP, yes, but it's yourself that makes the difference here. Oh, and you have much more freedom in picking out your hardware (back to the cheap tangent.) -- Travers Buda

Re: wi0 (pcmcia0): system freeze after pulling card out

2007-07-24 Thread Travers Buda
.. x86-esque sucks. (And here I am on amd64... starting to understand Miod... maybe it's time to hook up the station 20.) Whatever the real reason, it's a design flaw in the bus, perhaps in the card too, maybe both. -- Travers Buda

Re: How to make screenshot under console ?

2007-06-24 Thread Travers Buda
* Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-24 19:47:02]: > smonek wrote: > > How to make screenshot under console? > > With screen you can make screenshot. They're called hardcopies. > > You could also tip(1) into the box. -- Travers Buda

Re: CVS hosed

2007-05-24 Thread Travers Buda
* Emilio Perea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-24 12:39:51]: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:33:15AM -0500, Travers Buda wrote: > > Well since nobody has posted this to misc@ yet, I suppose I will. > > It's obvious that CVS is currently in a state of being completely >

CVS hosed

2007-05-24 Thread Travers Buda
Well since nobody has posted this to misc@ yet, I suppose I will. It's obvious that CVS is currently in a state of being completely hosed. I'm foaming at the mouth to get that new hppa code... my c360 is all setup to bootstrap me a leet sauce os for my b2000. -- Travers Buda

Re: Remove x11/ion

2007-04-30 Thread Travers Buda
See http://www.flickr.com/photos/i-capture/16136112/ for an artistic example we can base it off of. Banana, mofo, do you speak it? But in all seriousness, FreeIon sounds good. Little bit easier to figure out just what the hell it is. Anyone serious about sed'ing this port to hell? -- Travers Buda

Re: pf - drop or return - is stealth mode overrated?

2007-04-24 Thread Travers Buda
ant to violate RFC 1122. ICMP is a Good Thing. $ ping machine is a hell of a lot easier than crafting some TCP action to see whether a host is up or not. -- Travers Buda

Re: pf - drop or return - is stealth mode overrated?

2007-04-24 Thread Travers Buda
that_ much. Don't stay awake at night thinking: did I write block drop or block return? AHH! I don't know! Hacks0arz are coming for me!! -- Travers Buda

Re: heads up for current followers: fsck_ffs

2007-04-23 Thread Travers Buda
his bug be fixed? > Uhh, following -current while they're hacking on the filesystem stuff and not expecting pain and suffering? That sounds like a good idea to me! =) -- Travers Buda

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Travers Buda
n that's feeling the biggest burn right now is Michael Buesch because he realizes the mistake HE made is bigger that what happened with the licensing. -- Travers Buda

Re: Video choppy with mplayer and vlc under xenocara?

2007-03-29 Thread Travers Buda
r info I should provide? I have a multi-head setup (mga,) and the xvideo extension is now only present on screen 0 with the new xenocara. You can check with "xvinfo." I have not looked into this. -- Travers Buda

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-21 Thread Travers Buda
er rebooting won't have that > penalty. > Or, if you're really impatient and impractical, generate them on a fast machine and copy them over... -- Travers Buda

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-21 Thread Travers Buda
enable sysctl. You're probably not going to be swapping too darn much unless you decide to use X, then it's going to be a bit over the line, however, this does not mean it's not going to work. =) -- Travers Buda

Re: USB Printer Recommendation

2007-03-21 Thread Travers Buda
power-hungr, loud. Yet it works beautifly with postscript via serial, parallel, or over the network (you can just do cat blah.ps | nc printer some-port-i-forget. Nmap it to find out.) The guys down at the surplus probably consider it "worthless junk," so that should help with your price. -- Travers Buda

Re: Two indentical timed cronjobs, one gets ignored

2007-03-19 Thread Travers Buda
mething which would be nice to be mentioned in the > manpage as a caveat? > What does /var/cron/log have to say? -- Travers Buda

Re: BIND9 and /dev/arandom

2007-03-18 Thread Travers Buda
is that there was no > /dev/arandom in the chroot jail so named will continue use the > descriptor it opened for /dev/arandom before it did the chroot. > -- > > So, apparently I should always see this message correct? > > Phusion > > Yeah. -- Travers Buda

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-17 Thread Travers Buda
t have to do anything to make the system more secure. You can only reverse that. OpenBSD is the easiest operating system I have ever worked with. -- Travers Buda

Re: Contradictory statement on vulnerability

2007-03-16 Thread Travers Buda
etc. Your question is explained on the website. openbsd.org -- Travers Buda

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-16 Thread Travers Buda
;s the 4.1 release. And I'm sure Theo does other things besides OpenBSD. -- Travers Buda

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-15 Thread Travers Buda
. because there is ingratitude. To add insult to injury, people ask for more than what is freely offered. Example: this thread. If you want to see X feature, hire one of the developers. If you want to keep getting releases, pay Theo's hydroponics.. err electric bill. etc etc -- Travers Buda

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-15 Thread Travers Buda
softers who wish they could even install linucks; whether this is due to their stupidity or the poor quality of linux is anyone's guess). I digress. If you _really_ want to stay ontop of things, you have to take action yourself beyond the cron job that gets your mail. Sorry, that's just the way it is, so I suggest you adapt to it. -- Travers Buda

Re: Max amount of RAM

2007-03-01 Thread Travers Buda
large memory support in i386 and amd64, needed in London, UK. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Travers Buda

Re: Concerning Filesystem Mini-Hackathon and faster kernel building (distcc)

2007-02-27 Thread Travers Buda
Distcc sadly is a band-aid for this gaping wound. So, perhaps if you have a few large disks lying around you could donate/loan them? -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-02-18 Thread Travers Buda
* Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-18 14:42:34]: > * Jon Drews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-18 11:17:08]: > > > On 2/17/07, R. Fumione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >I am using OpenBSD on server since few years

Re: Atheros WIFI card can scan, but can't connect.

2007-01-30 Thread Travers Buda
this chip in the future sometime? > > Thanks, > Ido. > (please CC, I'm not on the list) > Also see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-tech&m=115869124319973&w=2 It looks like there has not been much churn on this lately aside from getting the driver to attach to these new radios. -- Travers Buda

Re: OpenBSD's bind: CVE-2007-0493 and CVE-2007-0494

2007-01-30 Thread Travers Buda
d -v and /usr/src/usr.sbin/bind/version. -- Travers Buda

Re: Aironet MPI-350 Wireless

2007-01-29 Thread Travers Buda
* Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-30 10:49:59]: > Travers Buda wrote: > > They're basically the same thing. > > No they're not. One run on the vendors hardware, the other run on your > OS. Two entirely different things. > Sorry, I was being neb

Re: Aironet MPI-350 Wireless

2007-01-29 Thread Travers Buda
* Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-29 15:16:15]: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:30:01PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote: > > Well I think both are equally dangerous (binary firmware and binary > > drivers.) They're basically the same thing. > > My understa

Re: Aironet MPI-350 Wireless

2007-01-29 Thread Travers Buda
ows hosts. Additionally, this attack vector does not yield a lot of compromised boxen, so it's not very efficient. All you're probably going to see with these sorts of attacks is proof-of-concept. If someone was targeting you specifically, there would be easier ways than sploiting a bin firmware. -- Travers Buda

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Travers Buda
You're not getting hw.setperf with ACPI enabled because ACPI and APM don't and shouldn't coexist. ACPI has a hw.setperf mechanism, but you don't have it enabled in your kernel (I don't know if it's working yet.) Travers Buda On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:15:13 -0700 Ma

Re: ACPI tests on a Jetway J7F2 board

2007-01-28 Thread Travers Buda
reduce power usage and extend battery life through the hw.setperf sysctl(3) mechanism. Travers Buda On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:52:08 -0700 Mark Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings: > > I almost didn't submit this because there were no outright failures, but > t

Re: keep state for http connections

2007-01-25 Thread Travers Buda
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Travers Buda wrote: > > That is a good point that state table lookups are cheaper. You're > > right, keep state should be faster. > > > > On the other hand, if you are in dire need of more ram, one could put > > pass in quick proto

Re: keep state for http connections

2007-01-24 Thread Travers Buda
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:20:46 -0800 "Kian Mohageri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/24/07, Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Last time I checked though, clients only talk with the web server on > > port 80. So, the only reason you would want

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