Re: Sun Niagara supported?

2006-10-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:14:30PM -0400, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > I see I see, thanks for the explanation. I hope I didn't get your hopes > up for financing...I am only a poor student finishing his Bachelor's... > > Jd Don't give it a thought Jean. In Sanskrit there is a saying which goes

Re: shell script (background ogg-stream dumping) - "no such process"

2006-10-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:12:08AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > I have this little sh script which saves an ogg audio stream, > streamed by an internet radio. It's short enough to quote it: > > > --- cut -- > > #!/bin/sh > > # $1 is length in seconds, $2 is the output filename. > > # The stream i

Re: OpenBSD Wiki

2006-10-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:52:20PM -0500, Kenny Mann wrote: > Dudes, > > Many months ago I started a website called OpenBSD-Wiki (located at > http://www.openbsd-wiki.org). > > The orginal goal was pretty selfish: Document what it took to get my > systems going so I wouldn't forget. > > I'm no

Re: OpenBSD AJAX

2006-10-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:21:55PM +0200, ropers wrote: > On 25/10/06, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 10/24/06, ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> You mentioned that you dislike PHP. > >> I would be curious to learn your reasons for this. > > > >If you look back at the history of PH

mixmaster and anonymous mailing

2006-10-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Guys, Anonymous e-mailing and mixmaster framework piqued my interest and I have been doing some reading/browsing. However even wikipedia does not give me enough detail though I get the context and architecture. But my mind has more doubts than comfort. Can some

How to take two screenshots?

2006-11-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hi friends, I have setup a multiboot machine with 4 OSes, gentoo,NetBSD,OpenBSD(but of course :-) and FreeBSD on a single hard disk. Now I want to do two things. a) Take a screenshot of the grub splash screen at bootup b) Take a screenshot of the wdm screen Can you guys help ou

Re: Reporting segfaults

2006-11-10 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:09:24AM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > Where should I report errors like this? > mpg321 in free(): error: free_pages: pointer to wrong page > > Abort trap (core dumped) > > People on OpenBSD can argue that I should report to mpg321, and people from > mpg321 that OpenBSD

Re: how to use infrared remote control with openbsd ?

2006-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:31:30AM -0800, Claude Brassel wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using lirc on linux and i want to switch to openbsd but i can not find > some equivalent package to lirc; I am planning to port it to get it to work but I am not sure when I will be done. Do you want to sponsor it?

Re: OpenBSD Audio series other than bsdtalk ?

2006-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:12:37PM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: > Thank you very much. In spite of bob@'s heckling, it was a lot of fun. > Dear Jason, I must admit than when I heard the audio I found the talk to be somewhat superficial though humorous. However once I saw the video I got

Re: OpenBSD Audio series other than bsdtalk ?

2006-11-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:18:31PM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Nov 12, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:12:37PM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: > > What software did you use for your slides? > > > > I know it is no

changing background and foreground color of pdf file

2006-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Guys, I have an interesting question for you guys. I am reading the Cisco IPJ documents and I wrote a simple shell script to download them all(I missed some and downloaded by hand). Anyway my problem is an interesting one. I spend all day romancing my computer and she h

Re: changing background and foreground color of pdf file

2006-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:55:11PM -0700, Chris Kuethe wrote: > On 11/14/06, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Coming to the point, IPJ however is pdf and it is black text > >against white background. Unfortunately my eyes find it har

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:43:44PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > hi there, > > 4.0 is here so time for my second annual reinstall on my notebook. > i have come to the conclusion that it would be nice to have a > "production" system and a "development" system. i need a stable > system to work wi

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:05:17AM -0600, Tony Abernethy wrote: > > There is one disklabel per disk, not one disklabel per DOS partition. > The DOS partitions come into play only while the BIOS is booting > After that, the DOS partitions can contain any nonsense you like. > > I suspect you'll do

Re: how to use infrared remote control with openbsd ?

2006-12-02 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 03:18:49AM -0800, Claude Brassel wrote: > Hello, > > Do you have some good news Perhaps "some news". I am starting it today. regards, Girish

Re: how to use infrared remote control with openbsd ?

2006-12-02 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 09:48:08AM -0800, Claude Brassel wrote: > Hello, > > > I am planning to port it to get it to work but I am not sure when I will > > be done. Do you want to sponsor it? :) > > Sure i can sponsor you with some old remote controls :)) > > >But I only want to support user spa

Re: source upgrade to 4.0 - what to check?

2006-12-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:56:37AM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > Hi Josh, > > On Tue, 05.12.2006 at 16:51:07 -0500, Josh Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. build a 4.0 RAIDFrame system locally, in a qemu or vmware virtual > > machine if necessary, on spare hardware if not. > > qemu coul

Any recommendation for WAN optimization?

2012-07-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Particularly for MS SQL kind of stuff? Do we have anything interesting in ports? Using ssh with -C flag? -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com

Re: Any recommendation for WAN optimization?

2012-07-25 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Particularly for MS SQL kind of stuff? > > Do we have anything interesting in ports? > > Using ssh with -C flag? > > -Girish > > -- > Gayatri Hitech > http://gayatri-hitech.com -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com

IPSec VPN and tunnel mode routing

2010-03-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, I find no explicit mention of how to encapsulate and decapsulate IPsec protected packets in tunnel mode. Are we supposed to use gre0 or gif0 interface to add routes? I am able to create SAs using automatic keying with isakmpd and 1 line in ipsec.conf. But I am unable to connect two pr

Re: IPSec VPN and tunnel mode routing

2010-03-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Many thanks for the answers. I should certainly thank Daniel with a full heart since he really made my day. Many thanks. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> I am able to create SAs using automatic keying with isakmpd and 1 line >> in ipsec.conf. > > If you describe your co

Re: Stop spam from ISP Mailserver

2010-04-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:31 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I have a client, he receives a lot of spam from his ISP Mailserver. > Is there a way to limit spam using an OpenBSD Gateway with PF and Spamd at > his place ? (His mailserver is ISP Mailserver, so he hasn't mailserver) > > I think it is not possib

LiveUSB-OpenBSD updated with 4.7 images

2010-05-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hi all, This link says it all. http://liveusb-openbsd.sf.net Download and enjoy. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com

Re: Help contacting Richard Stallman

2010-05-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
This thread could be more humorous. -Girish On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Igor Sobrado wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Reyk Floeter wrote: >>> >>> So the question is - am I living in a parallel universe? >> >> Simp

OpenBSD and my portable mp3 player

2009-11-23 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I am warning you ahead that some of this may be braindead simple or trivial for some of you but I am still sending this because many of you will benefit by this mail. Here is what I did with my portable Sandisk mp3 player. I have a strange problem. I am a devout Hindu and I want to listen to Ved

Unofficial OpenBSD 4.6 USB installer on LiveUSB-OpenBSD page!

2009-12-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, My friend wanted it. I wanted it too just for fun. So I did it. Please remember, it is 100% unofficial. This project is not officially or unofficially endorsed by OpenBSD in any way. So use it at your own risk! That said, I am quite certain that many of you will benefit in a big way

Re: Unofficial OpenBSD 4.6 USB installer on LiveUSB-OpenBSD page!

2009-12-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
rish On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Brad Tilley wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:34 +0530, "Girish Venkatachalam" > wrote: > >> I played no tricks, it is just the CD/DVD installer in the USB stick. ;) > > I normally just install -current or -release to a USB stick

Re: [pf question] Positive condition for adding in the table?

2009-08-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ivan Radovanovic wrote: > I am new into pf configuration and I am curious if it is possible to add > some host into table in firewall rules if some conditions are met (not > if they are broken). I was thinking about some way to prevent port > scanning of machine and

Re: [pf question] Positive condition for adding in the table?

2009-08-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ivan Radovanovic wrote: > Thanks for your respone. If I understand you correctly pf kernel module > actually supports operating with tables based on positive conditions (ie not > only when rule is broken, but also when rule is true), and the way to define > rules of

LiveUSB based on 4.6 project at sourceforge

2009-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hello misc, Kindly spare a moment for this site: http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net Hope you like it. You know that OpenBSD already comes with cwm and several other networking daemons. This USB stick is a great way to carry OpenBSD 4.6 with you wherever you go. Enjoy! -Girish -- Gayatr

Re: LiveUSB based on 4.6 project at sourceforge

2009-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: > > hey ... there is even a version with mplayer !!! > > now I don't have to use ubuntu anymore in the work notebook :) > > really thanks, the hell of a great thing :) Hey Bud, You confused me for a minute. There is mplayer in both editions

LiveUSB project with a new look

2009-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear folks, I added a non X version and dressed up the page a bit. http://liveusb-openbsd.sf.net All versions have mplayer. ;) Now there are 3 variants. A minimal version without X, a Lite version with Windowmaker and few packages and a full version with firefox browser. Thanks. -Girish --

Re: LiveUSB project with a new look

2009-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear folks, I got a personal mail that my USB images do not fit into 1GB and 2G sticks. Obviously I got this wrong. 10^3 != 2^10 I have images of 2*1024^3 whereas USB sticks are short by roughly 80 MB. I found a very interesting way of tackling this issue. Hence this mail. Once again qemu com

Please use this to convert people to OpenBSD

2009-11-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear friends, People have the mistaken idea that OpenBSD is meant for the creme de la creme or the privileged crowd. That is absolutely and patently false. OpenBSD has all the elements of true UNIX. We are very friendly but we are choosy about who our friends are. ;) Anyway jokes aside, kindly

spamd in a cloud setup?

2010-12-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear folks, OpenBSD's spamd is a network level spam filter and consequently we need the MX records to point to spamd before it hits our mail server thereby achieving bandwidth protection as well as spam protection. This is really fantastic. Now the issue is this. Since MX records do not underst

pf and DNS

2011-01-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I try to use OpenBSD wherever I can and in the firewall I have installed in a big jewel store here I have the following problem. Many websites these days "Akamize" or do whatever that gives them a different IP address everytime you access it. And consequently pf which does not know a thing about

Re: pf and DNS

2011-01-07 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Martin Schrvder wrote: >> >> And consequently pf which does not know a thing about domains does not help us. > > What exactly is the problem you want to solve? > Sorry for having been abstract. Here is the detailed explanation. One domain translates to around 100

WAN link aggregation

2011-01-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear folks, I find that there are primarily 4 ways to aggregate/concentrate/failover WAN links. 1) trunk(4) 2) ECMP(read FAQ) 3) pf(4) route-to 4) relayd(8) Router 5) BGP I say 4 since BGP cannot be used in most cases. Which is the best way to achieve this goal in our usual approach of simplici

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