OT Fwd: Alertbox: Distribution of Users' Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think

2016-11-15 Thread Craig Skinner
Begin forwarded message: Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/ Cheers, -- Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7

Re: OSPFD over IPSEC

2016-11-15 Thread Comète
14 novembre 2016 22:50 "Remi Locherer" a écrit: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 04:50:21PM +, Comète wrote: > >> 14 novembre 2016 14:50 "Remi Locherer" a écrit: >> On >> 2016-11-14 12:48, Comète wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I'm trying to run OSPFD over >> IPSEC with OpenBSD 6.0 stable, so I first >> start

Saw-shaped load on idle computer

2016-11-15 Thread Philippe Meunier
Hello, I'm just curious: what is it in the kernel that wakes up about every minute to do some work even on a completely idle machine? I'm asking because xload shows some curious looking saw shaped load like this: http://www.ccis.northeastern.edu/home/meunier/xload.jpg That's on an idle Thinkpad T

Re: Why on earth would online voting be insecure?

2016-11-15 Thread gwes
On 11/15/2016 00:55, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: So yes, back to my original point. A Civic's blockchain, one that does not rely on the integrity (or rather is resilient to) the system it runs on, or the security of the transmission media ; as a platform for use in civic's - needs to exist first.

Re: Why on earth would online voting be insecure?

2016-11-15 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
On 15 November 2016 at 09:47, gwes wrote: > On 11/15/2016 00:55, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > >> So yes, back to my original point. A Civic's blockchain, one that does not >> rely on the integrity (or rather is resilient to) the system it runs on, >> or >> the security of the transmission media

Re: Why on earth would online voting be insecure?

2016-11-15 Thread Vivek Vinod
‎Apologies for speaking out of turn.  Is this an OpenBSD mailing list? Vivek Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Joel Wirāmu Pauling Sent: Tuesday 15 November 2016 20:46 To: gwes Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Why on earth would online voting be insecure? On 15

Re: Running OpenSMTPD at home behind a cloud proxy

2016-11-15 Thread Joris Vanhecke
Using OpenSMTPD on the VPS actually sounds like a good idea. It could use a pf blacklist + spamd to block a large amount of spam and reduce strain on my home connection. I'm still waiting for hardware to arrive and I'll test this out. relay via sounds like a simple option, but I'll have to investi

Because in this day and age, there’s no one else doing what OpenBSD is doing?

2016-11-15 Thread SOUL_OF_ROOT 55
Theo de Raadt wrote: "The first thing to recognize about OpenBSD is that there are about 80 developers and we do OpenBSD for ourselves only. Lots of other people use OpenBSD, but we use it for ourselves. It’s just for ourselves–and that means I want OpenBSD to run on everything I’ve got. I w

Re: Because in this day and age, there’s no one else doing what OpenBSD is doing?

2016-11-15 Thread Gregor Best
Hi, On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 07:14:23PM -0200, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: > [...] > *Because in this day and age, there???s no one else doing what OpenBSD is > doing?* > [...] I'm not sure if you're aware of that but your sentence structure is really really confusing. "Because" signifies the start of

Re: Saw-shaped load on idle computer

2016-11-15 Thread Clint Pachl
Does /var/log/* have any clues? Philippe Meunier wrote on 11/15/16 06:11: Hello, I'm just curious: what is it in the kernel that wakes up about every minute to do some work even on a completely idle machine? I'm asking because xload shows some curious looking saw shaped load like this: http:/

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2016-11-15 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Mihai Popescu [mih...@gmail.com] wrote: > Folks, pay attention, please! The OP asked about a laptop. > Pansonic Thoughbook is not a laptop! It's a real desktop. > I was talking about the Panasonic _Toughbook_ which is definitely a laptop. The CF-C1 and CF-19MK3/MK4/MK5 models are all very portab

Re: Why on earth would online voting be insecure?

2016-11-15 Thread Mihai Popescu
| Is this an OpenBSD mailing list? Yes, it is. The simple fact is that some peple cannot get an idea on a subject. Two examples are security and randomization. Something inside them tells them "you didn't get it" or " you almost got it" and they want to show this is not true. Hence the venting on

Re: Saw-shaped load on idle computer

2016-11-15 Thread Mihai Popescu
| I'm just curious: what is it in the kernel that wakes up about every minute to do some | work even on a completely idle machine? Puffy is testing its spikes. http://www.openbsd.org/images/cdaudio-m.gif http://www.openbsd.org/images/fanza_right.jpg

OpenBSD Ports "Libraries in packing-lists in the ports tree and libraries from installed packages don't match"

2016-11-15 Thread Stuart Longland
Hi all, I've recently started using OpenBSD, installing it on an old Lemote Yeeloong, largely because of uncertainty in where Debian Linux is headded with this port. So far so good, it's been largely smooth sailing. I'm in the process of installing what I'd normally use on Linux. Prior to this

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) is Looking for Information Technology-related Job Opportunities World Wide

2016-11-15 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo
Dear Sir/Madam, My academic and educational qualifications are now reflected in my email signature. I am an entry level/junior/beginner Information Technology (IT) Specialist/Systems Engineer/Linux Server Administrator/Helpdesk Support/Computer Technician/Android Enthusiast available for hire any

Re: Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) is Looking for Information Technology-related Job Opportunities World Wide

2016-11-15 Thread Tinker
Wt*. This is not a job listings mailing list. Get lost. On 2016-11-16 11:54, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo wrote: Dear Sir/Madam,

Unable to disable UDP ports 623 and 4500

2016-11-15 Thread Foo74
Hi All, I am exploring locking down an OpenBSD 6.0 server running on a Thinkpad w510 with a i7-q720 processor. I believe I have turned off everything except dhcp and sshd. When I run a netstat I don't see any services running. I have set everything =NO in the rc.conf.local (except dhcp and ssh

Broadcom Wifi Chip Datasheets

2016-11-15 Thread Chris Cappuccio
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/798720961562361857 "Cypress bought Broadcom's WiFi business and apparently published all their formerly unobtainium datasheets": http://www.cypress.com/search/all?f[0]=meta_type%3Atechnical_documents&f[1]=resource_meta_type%3A575&f[2]=field_related_products%3A