Re: Recommend T1 Card for 4.6

2010-01-06 Thread steve szmidt
Sangoma is the best quality and support option available. I've installed in hundreds of Linux server. Though I've never tried it under OBSD. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Re: cron problem

2009-07-02 Thread steve szmidt
ipts get a web page, extract values from matches, update > database, sleep, repeat for new pages until done with list of search > values. > > > Chris Bennettf Just off hand, are there not too many time parameters? -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give u

Re: Patching a SSH 'Weakness'

2008-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
On Saturday 13 September 2008, johan beisser wrote: > On Sep 13, 2008, at 5:49 AM, steve szmidt wrote: > > Yes, the US had it for a while but a recent ruling has reversed that. > > Really? I never heard of it ever being passed in the first place. > > If it's the cas

Re: Patching a SSH 'Weakness'

2008-09-13 Thread steve szmidt
On Saturday 13 September 2008, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: > > I don't know a single country where you are forced to hand over keys, > but not to hand over passwords > > -- > Jonathan Yes, the US had it for a while but a recent ruling has reversed that. -- Steve Szmidt

Re: OBSD hacks at ruxcon

2008-03-05 Thread steve szmidt
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 3/5/08, steve szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks like the malloc is addressed. Anything on the other attack vectors? > > Do you have a particular concern or are you asking for a 53 slide > response presentat

Re: OBSD hacks at ruxcon

2008-03-04 Thread steve szmidt
f they > > are? > http://marc.info/?t=11602591855&r=1&w=2 Looks like the malloc is addressed. Anything on the other attack vectors? -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

OBSD hacks at ruxcon

2008-03-04 Thread steve szmidt
enBSD by Ben Hawkes -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Re: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2008-02-21 Thread steve szmidt
can recover data from your RAM but in reality it will not affect many of us. Unless they could recover it hours later it's only going to be a problem in an organized attack. At which point it falls right back to physical security. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essenti

Re: Marry Christmas!

2007-12-23 Thread steve szmidt
On Sunday 23 December 2007, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > to you all, religious or not! > > P.S. and Happy New Year! > > //Santa Very thoughtful, the same to you! :) -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neithe

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread steve szmidt
f which way to go without having to know all about it. The same applies to our friend here who might never look at whatever O/S's he might have left behind him. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-27 Thread steve szmidt
tc/acpi/resume.d/99-stop-hitachi-madness.sh with the following contents: #!/bin/sh hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Re: [newbie] ssh and sftp timing out

2007-10-08 Thread steve szmidt
ange. If that's the case you can use dyndns.net or .com(?) to always track which IP you have at home. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Re: How can I install 4 OS'es on one disk?

2007-10-07 Thread steve szmidt
t to do things like separating /var so it always have the log space it needs, and so on. In the end there's probably no reason why you can't put as many partitions as you want. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither libe

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-13 Thread steve szmidt
ther than some people being confused as to what came from where. Which is the chicken and which is the egg kind of thing. It is generalities which has bunches of people up in arms which of course happens when there is not enough specificity. It is pretty safe to say that most people are hon

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-13 Thread steve szmidt
it was not entirely yours to start with. Thus you see all the "horrible" GPL community "rip" you off. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Re: route command

2007-08-18 Thread steve szmidt
On Saturday 18 August 2007 22:19, steve wrote: Hmm, I had added the route commands to rc.local and with each edit executed sh netstart which of course does not read rc.local. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor s

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

2007-05-02 Thread steve szmidt
ue to respond to others, and there are annoying attempts by various people to gain access, so I drop as a default. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Re: OpenBSD 4.0 dvd case

2007-03-03 Thread steve szmidt
of the enemies on your network. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Re: pf

2006-12-09 Thread steve szmidt
uld never really debug what he wrote, but he could write a new program just like that. He said the key was that he had complete understanding of all the commands and the environment. There were nothing misunderstood. -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, me

Re: dns working but problem w etherape

2006-11-27 Thread steve szmidt
the problem is in etherape as I can do manual queries just fine. -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government - the virtue of self-control. A people without decency cannot be secure in its liberty.

dns working but problem w etherape

2006-11-24 Thread steve szmidt
ils, but I've got no idea where... If I start etherape without name resolution it works, so it seems to be a dns problem. :( Running on a LAN machine it works fine, the problem is only when run on the dns server. (Running OBSD 3.9) -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of politica

Re: Version 4.0 release

2006-10-10 Thread steve szmidt
On Monday 09 October 2006 17:44, you wrote: > I see 4.0 is coming out, and yet, no hardware raid support, no fixes for > raidframe, > and still no SMP support, for sparc64 on Ultrasparc II machines. Imagine saying something like, sorry but we have too much of a backlog to be able to get to that.

Re: Self Restraint (Was: Re: GPL = BSD + DRM [Was: Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense])

2006-10-09 Thread steve szmidt
n hope for here. Learn to swim with sharks... -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government - the virtue of self-control. A people without decency cannot be secure in its liberty. From the Declaration Principles

Re: Asterisk Voip

2006-09-25 Thread steve szmidt
me with a > asterisk.conf file to get me started? > > Thanks a lot. > > Jasper http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government - the virtue of self-control. A peop

Re: Asterisk Voip

2006-09-25 Thread steve szmidt
me with a > asterisk.conf file to get me started? > > Thanks a lot. > > Jasper You're on the wrong list. Subscribe to the users list under asterisk. A couple of years ago some did get it to run, but I never tried myself. -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political

Re: Upgrading 3.7 -> 3.9

2006-09-19 Thread steve szmidt
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 21:08, ICMan wrote: > Thank you for the advice, everyone. I don't want to lose my current > configuration, so I think I will give the double upgrade a try. Of course you'll back up your config files... -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the ri

Re: Launching the Internet

2006-09-16 Thread steve szmidt
in this case it's pretty clear it's not a real call for help, otherwise you are of course right. (I did reply to it off line). -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government - the virtue of self-control. A people wi

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-15 Thread steve szmidt
knowledge is now obsolete. Which is always the risk in any high tech industry like ours. -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government - the virtue of self-control. A people without decency cannot be secure in its liberty. From the Declaration Principles

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
of the control keys for Wordstar, for those old enough to remember. And then ther was that line editor in VMS. The hrm, good old days! -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government - the virtue of self-control. A people

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
On Thursday 14 September 2006 11:49, Matthew Jenove wrote: > steve szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe I'm different in that I like change. > > Who cares? > > Why is this thread still being discussed? Install ViM and bash, and > alias "ifconfig

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
turn > knobs and make it work like I expect...but then, I've now got a > non-standard editor running in a non-standard way. No joy in that for > me... > > Nick. I can certainly appreciate your view. Thanks for the feedback. -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of pol

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
On Thursday 14 September 2006 07:48, Adriaan wrote: > On 9/14/06, steve szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Out of date vi, harder to navigate and use, poor visual feedback. > > Use an .exrc file > > set number > set ruler > set verbose > set showmode > s

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
On Thursday 14 September 2006 00:10, you wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:53:04 -0400, "steve szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > * Defaulting to bash, easier to use - Implemented. > > OMG, not this again > If you like bash install it. It was simp

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 23:38, you wrote: > steve szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Not showing all I/F's by default in ifconfig, requiring -A. > > This is a good thing. Do you really want every command to just list any > possible information in a huge

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
On Thursday 14 September 2006 02:11, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, steve szmidt wrote: > > Over the years one gets used to some small things that makes life easier > > but is only slowly catching up on OBSD. I'm curious as why this is. Is it > > that real

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:18, Terry wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:49:29PM -0400, steve szmidt wrote: > > > > I'm > > curious to see how many not equally hard core users prefer vi over vim > > when having a choice. > > I'm definately not a &

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread steve szmidt
On Thursday 14 September 2006 04:28, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/09/13 23:49, steve szmidt wrote: > > My reference to coding with vi/vim means usually working on scripts, and > > config files. > > If you use it more, you'll find the differences get pretty > ann

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-13 Thread steve szmidt
eep things simple. I'm curious to see how many not equally hard core users prefer vi over vim when having a choice. -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government - the virtue of self-control. A people without decency cannot be secure in its liberty. From the Declaration Principles

Low priority or real coders

2006-09-13 Thread steve szmidt
gs are probably left with earlier versions due to priority, license issues and no doubt some developers just plain like some things not to change. What's on the horizon? -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must be capable of personal self-government - th

Re: pf table confusion

2006-09-10 Thread steve szmidt
nstances of tinyproxy depending on > source address and abusing upstream proxy support), but for more > complex needs squid's probably easier. Or of course httpd has > mod_proxy and is in base and is somewhere between the two in > terms of config flexibility. Thanks, I came to the con

Re: pf table confusion

2006-09-10 Thread steve szmidt
On Sunday 10 September 2006 10:32, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/09/10 09:08, steve szmidt wrote: > > > Maybe it would help to post pfctl -sr -vv with the direct entry > > > (i.e. working) and table (i.e. not-working). Perhaps pfctl -sT -v > > > too. > >

Re: pf table confusion

2006-09-10 Thread steve szmidt
umeric addresses, it will work as soon as DNS > unbreaks - by listing names, if just one entry fails to resolve, > the whole file will not be loaded. Ah, yes. That would not be good. Squid would be better in that regard. -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-gover

Re: pf table confusion

2006-09-09 Thread steve szmidt
On Saturday 09 September 2006 17:59, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/09/09 16:40, steve szmidt wrote: > > I also added proper data to all table files to ensure it does not mess > > things up. Though the persist command should allow for empty files. > > Do your tables actua

Re: pf table confusion

2006-09-09 Thread steve szmidt
> table file "/etc/tExtadmin" ( ) > > Use curly braces {} to define tables. > > SteveW Not on a file statement. The brackets (as noted above) was only included to show content. -- Steve Szmidt "To enjoy the right of political self-government, men must b

Re: pf table confusion

2006-09-09 Thread steve szmidt
state pass out log on $WAN proto tcp from any to any port 22 keep state # Allow web out based on tables pass out log on $WAN proto tcp from to any port $Web keep state pass out log on $WAN proto tcp from to port $Web keep state pass out log on $WAN proto tcp from to port $Web keep state # Al

pf table confusion

2006-09-09 Thread steve szmidt
Hi, I'm stuck on some obvious pf table error but I can't see it. I got a small test subnet 192.168.0.0 under my own subnet 10.1.0.0, where I test this firewall. Internet--[firewall]--10.1.0.0--[this test firewall]--192.168.0.0 Queues are not active yet, nor are web or ftp servers. I added a

Re: It's not about the money

2006-03-26 Thread steve szmidt
alized how futile and stupid it was of me to have such an idea. I promise it won't happen again. It's probably a good bet that these threads have made a few people realize some of their futilities too. So it's sort of like a blessing in disguise. I'm sure you will not hear a

Re: It's not about the money

2006-03-25 Thread steve szmidt
hou attitude. It's absolutely amazing people donate at all. Imagine if you had competition that were nice! Anyone who'd spent any time on the list would go elsewhere. It's not like anyone is suggesting you go celebate, or wear weird clothes or something. People just like being

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread steve szmidt
think people are doing and feeling better after I help them. That produces goodwill, and more income. Is this what you mean? -- Steve Szmidt "For evil to triumph all that is needed is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread steve szmidt
id back with interest. If someone feels singled out by this, I can assure you that would be a coincident as this is entirely fictional... at least for some. Now, try to go in peace. -- Steve Szmidt "For evil to triumph all that is needed is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke

Re: home VPN

2006-03-13 Thread steve szmidt
ll at risk. Then call the guy who's job it is to keep it all working a Nazi. Mmm, impressive. Hopefully you are not running on a windows machine thus opening a door to making it a cinch to hack your company network through your eh, inventiveness. --

Re: ssh

2005-05-17 Thread steve szmidt
unnamed people here have a four letter word in every sentence when they feel like it. They are nicely justified too. Still, that kind of attitude only makes the perpetrator look bad. And helped no one. -- Steve Szmidt "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary sa