Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Worik Stanton
On 17/11/14 10:55, Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount wrote: [snip] > I restart every week that server as read-write to patch it and that's > all, [snip] > I have been using that VM more than half a year and invested like 4 > hours setting it up. Is it not worth 4 hours a software that you use > every

Re: Question about FAQ section 10.3

2014-10-23 Thread Worik Stanton
On 24/10/14 14:53, Nick Holland wrote: > On 10/23/14 21:36, worik wrote: >> "Processes local and package scripts in /etc/rc.d" is listed as the last >> thing rc does after boot. >> >> What does "Processes" mean in this context? > > like "processing food" -- do whatever needs to be done. > (not my b

Re: Shadow TCP stacks

2014-10-19 Thread Worik Stanton
On 20/10/14 12:01, Ian Grant wrote: >> Believe me, this would only scream on their filters. Hell, >> > even someone capturing this with tcpdump and analyzing it later >> > would see something it's not right. > You think someone can analyse all the HTTP traffic in a country? So > what if they could

Re: Why .cshrc and .profile in / ?

2014-10-19 Thread Worik Stanton
On 20/10/14 11:50, Daniel Dickman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 6:32 PM, worik wrote: >> In a fresh(ish) OpenBSD installation I note .cshrc and .profile in /. >> >> Why? >> > > Not sure there's an answer but it was discussed at least one time before: > http://marc.info/?t=11910307971&r=1&w=

Re: Can I turn off sndio?

2014-08-18 Thread Worik Stanton
On 18/08/14 19:58, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: [snip] >> What is the proper way to turn it off? >> > > set sndiod_flags=NO in /etc/rc.conf.local (create one if it doesn't > exist). This is explained here: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#rc Thank you that is helpful. My bad, I had read th

Re: Donations to OpenBSD

2014-08-13 Thread Worik Stanton
On 14/08/14 11:55, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Well OBVIOUSLY CDs accumulate more revenue than T-shirts, so recently > we've not made any T-shirts because it isn't worth it, the setup costs > and overheads are higher than the number sold. If you guys don't buy > enough of them, then we don't do the set

Re: Donations to OpenBSD

2014-08-13 Thread Worik Stanton
On 14/08/14 11:45, patrick keshishian wrote: > You can do what I do. I purchase the CDs but request > the vendor not to send me the actual, physical CDs. That's > my preferred donation method. Cool. Where does the money all go in that case? Definitely the most simple option so far. How does it

Donations to OpenBSD

2014-08-13 Thread Worik Stanton
I changed the subject line On 14/08/14 10:52, Eric Furman wrote: > Fine, buy a T-shirt, but realize that only a small fraction of the cost > actually goes to OpenBSD. When you buy a CD the vast majority > of the cost goes to OpenBSD. Who cares whether you need the > CD or not. Buy if for the c

Re: [Bulk] Re: a half-baked analysis of the verification chicken-and-egg problem, and request

2014-08-13 Thread Worik Stanton
On 13/08/14 22:13, Eric Furman wrote: [snip]> > The most absolutely best way any one can contribute to OBSD > is to BUY CD'S. Buy some cd's and then buy some more. > Buy them for the stickers. Buy them because they fund OBSD. > Without cd sales OBSD would cease to exist. > It is as simple as that.