OT: Thank you for a second to none documentation in OpenBSD!!!

2023-05-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
le again, but the point here is that, docs in OpenBSD doesn't need for you to invest years and spend weeks full time to get to a point that is good. Sure I am not so young anymore so I guess I don't learn as fast as i used to, but man the system is so clean and docs are so good, t

thank you for faq..pf..ex.1 update...

2022-04-19 Thread harold felton
this is just a huge THANK YOU message... for whatever reason, i have been "trying" to get my openbsd router working correctly for many moons... no reason to explain all of the mistaken paths i have had, but finally, between the faq at https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html and t

Re: thank you for 6.6 and bsd.rd

2019-12-23 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Roderick(hru...@gmail.com) on 2019.12.21 19:50:03 +: > > On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > for 6.5 onwards, all you had to was type > > > > sysmerge > > sysupgrade > > I read somewhere that something like this was coming for 6.6, but > I remember that I followed the i

Re: thank you for 6.6 and bsd.rd

2019-12-21 Thread Roderick
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Theo de Raadt wrote: > for 6.5 onwards, all you had to was type > > sysmerge > sysupgrade I read somewhere that something like this was coming for 6.6, but I remember that I followed the instructions for upgrading from 6.5 to 6.6, and this was to be done manually

Re: thank you for 6.6 and bsd.rd

2019-12-20 Thread VanL
"Theo de Raadt" writes: > Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > >> Being able to copy the new (6.6) bsd.rd to an existing filesystem on the >> (running) old OpenBSD system, then boot that bsd.rd to install, was >> really really nice. Thank you! > > well you missed

Re: thank you for 6.6 and bsd.rd

2019-12-20 Thread eriklauritsen
Theo de Raadt-2 wrote > Jonathan Thornburg < > jthorn4242@ > > wrote: > >> I recently reinstalled my main laptop (which was at 6.5-stable/amd64) >> with 6.6/amd64. Almost everything "just worked", and the things that >> didn't were 3r

Re: thank you for 6.6 and bsd.rd

2019-12-20 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2019-12-20, "Theo de Raadt" wrote: > well you missed out > > for 6.5 onwards, all you had to was type > > sysmerge > sysupgrade I think that was intended to read syspatch sysupgrade > for 6.6 onwards you'll only need sysupgrade -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

Re: thank you for 6.6 and bsd.rd

2019-12-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > I recently reinstalled my main laptop (which was at 6.5-stable/amd64) > with 6.6/amd64. Almost everything "just worked", and the things that > didn't were 3rd-party stuff not from OpenBSD. A big thank-you to everyone! > > And... a sp

thank you for 6.6 and bsd.rd

2019-12-19 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
I recently reinstalled my main laptop (which was at 6.5-stable/amd64) with 6.6/amd64. Almost everything "just worked", and the things that didn't were 3rd-party stuff not from OpenBSD. A big thank-you to everyone! And... a specific itch-you-scratched-very-nicely I'd like

Thank you OpenBSD!

2019-10-18 Thread zap
Because of your high security standards, my distro has adopted LibreSSL and Xenocara. In the future it plans to also adopt sndio instead of that pulse garbage. I hope OpenBSD lasts a very, long, long time, not just for this, but because you guys take security very seriously.  

Re: Thank you

2018-11-27 Thread Wayne Oliver
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:54 PM, butresin wrote: On 1109 0832, Wayne Oliver wrote: Hi All, Just wanted to say thanks for the hard work, OpenBSD runs better than any other OS on my laptop. One thing that really stands out is suspend and resume, I have *never* had a Linux or Windows

Re: Thank you

2018-11-22 Thread butresin
On 1109 0832, Wayne Oliver wrote: > Hi All, > > Just wanted to say thanks for the hard work, OpenBSD runs better than any > other OS on my laptop. > One thing that really stands out is suspend and resume, I have *never* had a > Linux or Windows laptop do it properly. > > Obviously everything else

Thank you

2018-11-08 Thread Wayne Oliver
Hi All, Just wanted to say thanks for the hard work, OpenBSD runs better than any other OS on my laptop. One thing that really stands out is suspend and resume, I have *never* had a Linux or Windows laptop do it properly. Obviously everything else works great, I just wanted to point this out

Thank you for the updated arm64 packages

2018-04-25 Thread jungle Boogie
Hi All, Just wanted to pass along my thanks for updated arm64 packages. I have very few installed, but it's nice to see this arch isn't neglected. Thanks to all the ports maintainers, who practically have full time jobs maintaining all the ports. Thanks for everyone who's donated to the project -

Re: thank you for 6.3

2018-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Joshua Rollin
sional problems with -snapshot or -current are of course to be expected), and am seriously tempted to replace Fedora on the E550. OpenBSD is definitely the cream of the BSD crop. Jeff. On 19 April 2018 at 18:02, Alfred Morgan wrote: > Yes, thank you. Let's each of us give a pizza to show o

Re: thank you for 6.3

2018-04-19 Thread Alfred Morgan
Yes, thank you. Let's each of us give a pizza to show our appreciation. http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html -- -alfred

Re: thank you for 6.3

2018-04-19 Thread Bogdan Kulbida
But after upgrading to 6.3 I haven't been able > >to > >get it to hang and I find myself back in 'it just works' land which is > >so, so nice. So nice. > > > >I don't know who to thank, and maybe the dev that fixed my issue > >wouldn't kno

Re: thank you for 6.3

2018-04-19 Thread flipchan
, and maybe the dev that fixed my issue >wouldn't know *they* fixed it, but...thank you. -- Take Care Sincerely flipchan layerprox dev

Re: thank you for 6.3

2018-04-18 Thread Alfredo “Fred” Vogel
(Lenovo x200 + coreboot + SeaBIOS). But after upgrading to 6.3 I haven't been able to get it to hang and I find myself back in 'it just works' land which is so, so nice. So nice. I don't know who to thank, and maybe the dev that fixed my issue wouldn't know *they* fixed it, but...thank you.

thank you for 6.3

2018-04-18 Thread Scott Bonds
hich is so, so nice. So nice. I don't know who to thank, and maybe the dev that fixed my issue wouldn't know *they* fixed it, but...thank you.

A thank you for Scid & Stockfish

2018-04-10 Thread Maurice McCarthy
Just a note to bcallah@ to express great thanks for porting the chess applications scid and stockfish-9 to OpenBSD. I'm well chuffed. :)

Re: Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-28 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 07:48:34PM +, Zsolt Kantor wrote: > Thanks Sebastien, I just figured out this. Now everything is clear. > If I may propose something . . . those "Not found" items even if it is not an > error, is a little bit misleading . . . From a simple user's point of view > the pk

Re: Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-28 Thread Chris Bennett
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 07:58:22PM +, Zsolt Kantor wrote: > > > By the way. For a simple user (I'm using OpenBSD just for fun, and learning) > it is worth to enable the weekly script, or not? > Absolutely! For "fun", check to see all of the things it does. Do you need to run it weekly? Yo

Re: Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-28 Thread Zsolt Kantor
By the way. For a simple user (I'm using OpenBSD just for fun, and learning) it is worth to enable the weekly script, or not? Thanks, Zsolt

Re: Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-28 Thread Zsolt Kantor
Thanks Sebastien, I just figured out this. Now everything is clear. If I may propose something . . . those "Not found" items even if it is not an error, is a little bit misleading . . . From a simple user's point of view the pkg_check -F in normal circumstances should return cleanly. Maybe an ext

Re: Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-28 Thread Sebastien Marie
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 06:56:17PM +, Zsolt Kantor wrote: > Another question. > pkg_check -F uses pkg_locate script to locate package files, directories. > pkg_locate uses locate to do that. > Question: If I use pkg_locate bsd.rd nothing is returned, but if I use locate > bsd.rd the ramdisk ke

Re: Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-28 Thread Zsolt Kantor
Another question. pkg_check -F uses pkg_locate script to locate package files, directories. pkg_locate uses locate to do that. Question: If I use pkg_locate bsd.rd nothing is returned, but if I use locate bsd.rd the ramdisk kernel is returned. Why? Is pkg_locate not working correctly? Or I'm miss

Re: Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-28 Thread Vijay Sankar
ave detailed information that helped me understand what was wrong with everything I am doing :) Thank you very much for pkg_check. When running pkg_check using the user account that I use to build ports, I did get the type of errors the OP mentioned. DETAILS BELOW AS ROOT builder.ftlclo

Re: Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-28 Thread Sebastien Marie
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:51:46PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:14:51PM +, Zsolt Kantor wrote: > > What exactly does the pkg_check -F option? If I use it, it does some > > filesystem check, and some "Locating unknown files". > > > > At the end I get: "Locating unknow

Re: Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-28 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:14:51PM +, Zsolt Kantor wrote: > What exactly does the pkg_check -F option? If I use it, it does some > filesystem check, and some "Locating unknown files". > > At the end I get: "Locating unknown files: ok", "Locating unknown > directories: ok", and a long list o

Please explain the pkg_check F option, thank you.

2018-02-27 Thread Zsolt Kantor
What exactly does the pkg_check -F option? If I use it, it does some filesystem check, and some "Locating unknown files". At the end I get: "Locating unknown files: ok", "Locating unknown directories: ok", and a long list of "not found" directories and files, like below. Not found: /boo

Stable packages for OpenBSD 6.1 (sparc64, mips64) - thank you

2017-04-26 Thread Jan Vlach
Hello misc, package builders, port maintainers, I've noticed that second batch of packages for OpenBSD 6.1 arrived to mirrors. I really appreciate the time and effort you put in and I would like to thank you all. Jan

Re: thank you sthen@ [Was: Re: acme-client(1) and http_proxy]

2017-04-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2017-04-26, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > To keep him going I suggest: > > http://spacehopper.org/wishlist > > "Exploding the phone" is taken. > ("Estimated delivery: 23 May 2017 - 16 Jun. 2017") > > We all benefit :-) Thanks! I haven't updated that list recently so it's a bit random at the momen

thank you sthen@ [Was: Re: acme-client(1) and http_proxy]

2017-04-26 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
To keep him going I suggest: http://spacehopper.org/wishlist "Exploding the phone" is taken. ("Estimated delivery: 23 May 2017 - 16 Jun. 2017") We all benefit :-) Marcus stefan.wol...@web.de (Stefan Wollny), 2017.04.26 (Wed) 10:04 (CEST): > Gesendet:??Mittwoch, 26. April 2017 um 06:16 Uhr > V

Just a quick thank you for all and every devs of OpenBSD!

2016-09-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
time, security, reliability and all and that's a sadly very simplistic list to be honest! I just wanted to take the time to say THANK YOU! Sadly way to many troll comments, or complains on the list and definitely WAY TO LITTLE IF ANY thank you. Each new release you guys make the OS better a

Re: Just a thank you.

2015-03-14 Thread Jeff St. George
Ditto! On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:09:05PM -0700 or thereabouts, Benjamin Heath > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This seems non-sequitur somehow, but I would simply like thank all the > > developers of OpenBSD for continuing work on the only OS t

Re: Just a thank you.

2015-03-14 Thread Maurice McCarthy
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:09:05PM -0700 or thereabouts, Benjamin Heath wrote: > Hi, > > This seems non-sequitur somehow, but I would simply like thank all the > developers of OpenBSD for continuing work on the only OS that I really > trust. I learn plenty just by lurking on this list. I also appr

Just a thank you.

2015-03-13 Thread Benjamin Heath
Hi, This seems non-sequitur somehow, but I would simply like thank all the developers of OpenBSD for continuing work on the only OS that I really trust. I learn plenty just by lurking on this list. I also appreciate having a set of developers with the fortitude to entirely reject very flawed syste

Re: Thank you for OpenBSD!

2014-07-01 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 11:47:58AM -0400, Daniel Villarreal wrote: > I'm a long-time GNU/Linux user, and in the past I've purchased the OpenBSD > cd set and got it to running. Then I would run into issues and put it away. > > I decided to do something different with OpenBSD 5.5 this time. I > app

Thank you thank you thank you

2014-06-07 Thread Monah Baki
# dmesg console is /virtual-devices@100/console@1 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1995-2014 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org OpenBSD 5.5 (GENERIC.MP) #173: Tue Mar 4 14:47:47 MS

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 10:02:02AM +, Dennis Davis wrote: > On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Gilles Chehade wrote: > > > From: Gilles Chehade > > To: Miod Vallat > > Cc: bofh , OpenBSD general usage list > > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 23:12:16 > > Subject: Re: OpenSMTPD

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-04 Thread Dennis Davis
On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Gilles Chehade wrote: > From: Gilles Chehade > To: Miod Vallat > Cc: bofh , OpenBSD general usage list > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 23:12:16 > Subject: Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you! > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 11:08:52PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > > &

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-02 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 11:08:52PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > > Don't be a tease!! What's in -current? > > Ponies. Lots of'em. > folding ponies into envelopes turned out to be gross, we gave up. -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-02 Thread Miod Vallat
> Don't be a tease!! What's in -current? Ponies. Lots of'em.

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-02 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 06:02:45PM -0500, bofh wrote: > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Gilles Chehade wrote: > > Oh, and if you liked what's in 5.2, you will love what's in -current ! > > Don't be a tease!! What's in -current? And I see 5.3-beta is tagged everything has been commited, you jus

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-02 Thread Loïc BLOT
Also look at: http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html -- Best regards, Loïc BLOT, UNIX systems, security and network expert http://www.unix-experience.fr Le samedi 02 février 2013 à 18:08 -0500, bofh a écrit : > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:02 PM, bofh wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Gil

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-02 Thread bofh
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:02 PM, bofh wrote: > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Gilles Chehade wrote: >> Oh, and if you liked what's in 5.2, you will love what's in -current ! > > Don't be a tease!! What's in -current? And I see 5.3-beta is tagged > already... Are you talking about 5.3 or post 5

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-02 Thread bofh
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Gilles Chehade wrote: > Oh, and if you liked what's in 5.2, you will love what's in -current ! Don't be a tease!! What's in -current? And I see 5.3-beta is tagged already... Are you talking about 5.3 or post 5.3...? :) -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift h

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-02 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 05:43:53PM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote: > > [...] > > So, I'd just like to say "thanks" to the OpenBSD and OpenSMTPD devs for > making such a friendly, usable, *SANE* MTA. Keep up the great work! > You're welcome ;-) Oh, and if you liked what's in 5.2, you will love what's in

OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-02 Thread Joe Gidi
I started out this afternoon with a very simple goal: get sendmail on an OpenBSD 5.2 box to relay mail to a smarthost (preferably using TLS), so that sensorsd can send out alerts to my phone if something goes wrong. After a solid two hours of trial and error, reading man pages and READMEs, and pra

Re: Thank you

2012-08-07 Thread Francois Pussault
Ok then give me 1 milion $ for fund fees after that i can help you to go jail . :) > > From: Mr.Mou and Family > Sent: Tue Aug 07 19:01:09 CEST 2012 > To: > Subject: Thank you > > > Hello > > I solicit your assistance to r

Thank you

2012-08-07 Thread Mr.Mou and Family
Hello I solicit your assistance to received funds on my behalf for the assistance of the needy out there,when you respond I will give you full details of myself and funds. Regards. Mou and family

Thank you

2012-07-26 Thread Tony Sidaway
MSNBC works now. I'm in London so this means I can see the MSNBC site. Thank you.

Re: Thank you for an awsome product...

2012-05-16 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Peter Laufenberg wrote: > if you ssh from Windows try Bitvise Tunnelier instead of putty. If you ssh from *nix... just use ssh. Fine for individual use, problematic in bigger environment because of license/price > > -- p > >> B B Hello, An

Re: Thank you for an awsome product...

2012-05-16 Thread Peter Laufenberg
if you ssh from Windows try Bitvise Tunnelier instead of putty. If you ssh from *nix... just use ssh. -- p > Hello, And thank you for an awsome product...I am a novice, >(just starting out in the linux/unix/bsd world), been a windows server guy and >3d modeler/animator

Thank you for an awsome product...

2012-05-15 Thread Mike Summerfield
Hello, And thank you for an awsome product...I am a novice, (just starting out in the linux/unix/bsd world), been a windows server guy and 3d modeler/animator, graphic artist for the last 20 years.I was always afraid of unix, until recently, I purchased two sun netra x1's, a

Re: Thank you OpenBSD

2012-04-05 Thread Remco
Alan Cheng wrote: > simple & clean, is one of the reasons I like OB ~ > FUNNY ABBREVIATION ALERT ! Where I live OB is a brand of tampons, so you just made yourself sound like one of their slogans ! LOL

Re: Thank you OpenBSD

2012-04-05 Thread Alan Cheng
;s fantastic. > > I use FreeBSD on my file-server to take advantage of ZFS and all their > convoluted versions/branches are just... a pain. > > So thank you all for keeping it simple, clean and efficient. > > -- > ESP

Thank you OpenBSD

2012-04-02 Thread Eric S Pulley
pain. So thank you all for keeping it simple, clean and efficient. -- ESP

Re: Short thank you and gratitude note for constant OpenBSD improvements/evolutions!

2010-10-30 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Daniel, Daniel Ouellet wrote on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 03:30:47PM -0400: > No one SADLY really thank you Actually, there were quite a few mails recently saying "thank you". > YOU give us We also do it for ourselves. :) But yes, publishing code and getting feedback from pe

Re: Short thank you and gratitude note for constant OpenBSD improvements/evolutions!

2010-10-29 Thread S H
+1 Very well put Daniel On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Hi, > > Many things got me to want to write a quick thank you note to the devs for > a long time and as many things goes, times fly and sadly I keep putting it > off. > > But, I guess some of

Short thank you and gratitude note for constant OpenBSD improvements/evolutions!

2010-10-29 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, Many things got me to want to write a quick thank you note to the devs for a long time and as many things goes, times fly and sadly I keep putting it off. But, I guess some of the very disgraceful emails one misc@ lately including some totally off topics f*cked up one about OpenBSD

New Installer: Thank you

2010-07-08 Thread Gaby Vanhegan
It's been a while since I've upgraded a box (or ran the installer for that matter) and this was the first time I used the bsd.rd kernel to do it. I'd like to give a massive thank you to all the developers who have worked on the new installer and upgrade documentation, it made

Re: Again, OpenBSD r0x! Thank you.

2009-12-30 Thread Andrew Fresh
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 09:13:45AM +1100, Aaron Mason wrote: > Hang on... isn't ftp_proxy defined in rc.conf? It is, but I had already set ftpproxy_flags="" in rc.conf.local so users could ftp out, so I needed a second instance for inbound connections. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ftp.html#natse

Re: Again, OpenBSD r0x! Thank you.

2009-12-30 Thread Aaron Mason
lter Rules for FTP Server (additon to above) > pass in on egress proto tcp to $ftp_ext port $ftp_port > pass out on internal proto tcp to $ftp_int port $ftp_port user proxy > > in /etc/rc.local > . /etc/pf.macros > echo -n ' ftp-proxy (internal)'; > /usr/sbin/ftp-proxy -

Again, OpenBSD r0x! Thank you.

2009-12-28 Thread Andrew Fresh
n internal proto tcp to $ftp_int port $ftp_port user proxy in /etc/rc.local . /etc/pf.macros echo -n ' ftp-proxy (internal)'; /usr/sbin/ftp-proxy -R $ftp_int -p $ftp_port -b $ftp_ext Thank you! (for that and much more) l8rZ, -- andrew - ICQ# 253198 - Jabber: and...@rraz.net A print

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:27:00PM +0200, zexel wrote: >> OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. >> A clear example of how thing should be done. >I will agree with this. As will I. After years of frustration with various Linux distributions and wireless, I'd deferred dealing with

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-17 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 05:28:40PM +0200, Torbj?rn H. Orskaug wrote: > Speaking of outstanding documentation in the form of manual pages, why > do the preformatted GNU man pages have a right margin of ~66 characters, > while the BSD ones render nicely at about 80 characters? i think this is probab

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-17 Thread Torbjørn H . Orskaug
Speaking of outstanding documentation in the form of manual pages, why do the preformatted GNU man pages have a right margin of ~66 characters, while the BSD ones render nicely at about 80 characters? How would I proceed to slap some "GNU" sense into the offending pages?

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-17 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:50:31AM +0200, Francesco Vollero wrote: > Il giorno gio, 16/07/2009 alle 22.27 +0200, zexel ha scritto: > > Jean-Frangois SIMON escribis: > > > I just would like to thank the authors of the project documentation for > > > its > > > real quality. > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-16 Thread Francesco Vollero
Il giorno gio, 16/07/2009 alle 22.27 +0200, zexel ha scritto: > Jean-Frangois SIMON escribis: > > I just would like to thank the authors of the project documentation for its > > real quality. > > > > > > > OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. > A clear example of how thing shou

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-16 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:27:00PM +0200, zexel wrote: > OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. > A clear example of how thing should be done. I will agree with this. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://s

Re: Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-16 Thread zexel
Jean-Frangois SIMON escribis: I just would like to thank the authors of the project documentation for its real quality. OpenBSD manpages are the best out there without doubt. A clear example of how thing should be done.

Thank you for the quality of the FAQ and MAN

2009-07-16 Thread Jean-François SIMON
I just would like to thank the authors of the project documentation for its real quality.

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread William Chivers
htly late in responding to this, but hey: > > Michael Grigoni wrote: > > >>>>> William Chivers wrote: > > >>> Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. >> I also add my thanks to the discussion. I do have a fundamental question to &g

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team,some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Grigoni
responding to this, but hey: Michael Grigoni wrote: William Chivers wrote: Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. I also add my thanks to the discussion. I do have a fundamental question to pose however... First, let me add my thanks to Theo and the guys for the

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team,some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread William Chivers
And can I ask you Michael what any of this has to do with my original post? Look at the subject. Why not start your own thread instead of hi-jacking someone else's? Bill - William J. Chivers Lecturer in Information Technology School of DCIT Faculty of

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread Henning Brauer
* Michael Grigoni [2009-04-30 21:42]: > Henning Brauer wrote: > >> * Michael Grigoni [2009-04-30 19:51]: > > >> >> we do not tend to drop support for hardware. happens for really really >> ancient stuff (>10years) from time to time, but even that seldom. > > In the context of this discussion, th

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Grigoni
Henning Brauer wrote: * Michael Grigoni [2009-04-30 19:51]: we do not tend to drop support for hardware. happens for really really ancient stuff (>10years) from time to time, but even that seldom. In the context of this discussion, the hardware is about 17 years old. if you spent your

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread Henning Brauer
* Michael Grigoni [2009-04-30 19:51]: > I agree online threats change; my argument is for a stable core o/s, with > patches made for threat mitigation and stable API and ABI and configuration > within a major release number, to make life easier for small shops that > can't afford to shoot at movin

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Grigoni
Steve Fairhead wrote: Second, you mentioned embedded work, which is my main work area. Yes, embedded stuff needs to be stable long-term - but the Internet isn't: threats change, and OpenBSD evolves. A classic solution to that (which I've used) is to simply accept that the legacy embedded stuff

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-12 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Artur Grabowski wrote: > > Is it troll-week on m...@? > if only it could be confined to one week a year...

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-12 Thread Nick Guenther
Idea > to just spread all this in public, ill just blindly take Theo's Side without > a doubt. Hopefully OpenBSD, the Project, can navigate this stormy Season > without harm and continue to be the best OS there is. > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:30:06PM +1100, William Chivers

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-12 Thread Steve Fairhead
Slightly late in responding to this, but hey: Michael Grigoni wrote: >> William Chivers wrote: > Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. > > Some people responding to the "European Orders" thread seem to have lost sight of what OpenBSD is and who dev

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-31 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Michael Grigoni wrote: > A modular approach to an O/S would be welcome; say a major version every five > years, with an a la carte menu of features, which are subject to versioning > much like there is a 'version 3 MS-Windows', with known performance > characteristics > and r

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-31 Thread Artur Grabowski
Michael Grigoni writes: > I also add my thanks to the discussion. I do have a fundamental > question to pose however. It seems that opensource culture for > large projects is driven by featurism and the need to make massive > changes incorporated into frequent releases. I come from a > backgrou

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-31 Thread Jesus Sanchez
oject, can navigate this stormy Season without harm and continue to be the best OS there is. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:30:06PM +1100, William Chivers wrote: Hello, Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. Some people responding to the "European Orders" thread seem to

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-30 Thread David Schulz
tormy Season without harm and continue to be the best OS there is. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:30:06PM +1100, William Chivers wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. > > Some people responding to the "European Orders" thread seem to have lo

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-30 Thread Henning Brauer
* Michael Grigoni [2009-03-31 04:38]: > A modular approach to an O/S would be welcome; say a major version every five > years, with an a la carte menu of features, which are subject to versioning > and upgrade over that period, and maintenance of a stable set of APIs, ABIs > and configuration file

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I also add my thanks to the discussion. I do have a fundamental question > to pose however. It seems that opensource culture for large projects > is driven by featurism and the need to make massive changes incorporated > into frequent releases. > I come from a background of very long-term > sta

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Grigoni
William Chivers wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. > > Some people responding to the "European Orders" thread seem to have lost > sight of what OpenBSD is and who develops it. I am a bit of a newbie here > (although I

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-03-30 Thread William Chivers
Hello, Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. Some people responding to the "European Orders" thread seem to have lost sight of what OpenBSD is and who develops it. I am a bit of a newbie here (although I have been using computers in my career since 1972), but it s

Re: Thank you for Relayd

2009-01-26 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:02:26PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: > 2009/1/26 uday : > > I just wanted thank the developers and contributors of Relayd. It's a > > wonderful load balancer, very well written GOOD JOB guys ! FYI, you > > saved us 75,000$ in F5 equipments. > > Surely you need a support

Re: Thank you for Relayd

2009-01-26 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/1/26 uday : > I just wanted thank the developers and contributors of Relayd. It's a > wonderful load balancer, very well written GOOD JOB guys ! FYI, you > saved us 75,000$ in F5 equipments. Surely you need a support contract? http://www.dixongroup.net/?q=openbsd#enterprise Best Martin

Re: Thank you for Relayd

2009-01-26 Thread uday
I'm negotiating a community contribution budget for all the open source software we're using. It should be a good thing for the community. um. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Dag Richards wrote: > I assume that your company will send say 10% of that saved cash to the > project now to ensure con

Re: Thank you for Relayd

2009-01-26 Thread Dag Richards
I assume that your company will send say 10% of that saved cash to the project now to ensure continued development and maintenance ? ;) On 1/26/09 9:32 AM, uday wrote: I just wanted thank the developers and contributors of Relayd. It's a wonderful load balancer, very well written GOOD JOB

Re: Thank you for Relayd

2009-01-26 Thread Dan Colish
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:32 PM, uday wrote: > I just wanted thank the developers and contributors of Relayd. It's a > wonderful load balancer, very well written GOOD JOB guys ! FYI, you > saved us 75,000$ in F5 equipments. > > um > > Why don't you donate some of that to the project!

Thank you for Relayd

2009-01-26 Thread uday
I just wanted thank the developers and contributors of Relayd. It's a wonderful load balancer, very well written GOOD JOB guys ! FYI, you saved us 75,000$ in F5 equipments. um

Re: Thank you: Re: Watching the prgress of dd if=drive1 of=drive2

2008-02-23 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 13:46 -0800, Jon wrote: > on some learning paths here. This mailing list is awesome. Thank you. just remember that when 4.3 CD pre-release-sales are announced :) IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named.

Thank you: Re: Watching the prgress of dd if=drive1 of=drive2

2008-02-23 Thread Jon
I solved the problem with (I believe it was) the first response out of the four or five I got almost immediately. I got four _separate_ completely valid solutions and this has pointed me on some learning paths here. This mailing list is awesome. Thank you.

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