Re: best hardware plattform for openbsd

2006-10-13 Thread Martin Toft
Claudio Jeker wrote: 500kpps sustained is a crazy amount of packets (especially think about possible peaks). Currently you can fine tune a OpenBSD box to do over 450kpps but there is not much headroom left for peaks. [snip] On what hardware is that possible? Can you point to any guides or other

Re: Recommendation for T41 Wireless

2006-11-01 Thread Martin Toft
Jonathan Gray wrote: Get a Ralink based card, they work great. You'll have to run tpwireless from ports before you put it in to get around the stupid IBM whitelist though. To continue an old thread... Unfortunately, I cannot find a shop (in Denmark...) that sells a mini-PCI wireless ethernet

Re: pop3

2006-11-10 Thread Martin Toft
Peter Fraser wrote: I find it a bit strange that an organization that prides itself on security, does not have any secure access to email. Wouldn't it be better to drop "pops3d" from the base system, and force users to use something a bit more secure out of the ports collection, or even better to

Re: PF state problem

2006-11-12 Thread Martin Toft
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/11/12 11:24, Gerald Holl wrote: pass in on $ext_if proto tcp to ($ext_if) port 22 pass out on $ext_if proto { tcp, udp, icmp } from any to any modulate state So long, from two of my PCs outside the network I can connect to the ssh service but from exactly one PC

Re: PF state problem

2006-11-12 Thread Martin Toft
Martin Toft wrote: Since the OP is using 4.0, this might be of interest: "flags S/SA keep state" is default [0]. [0] http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2006-10/0549.html Hmm, sorry, I didn't read it right. It's only in -current. Regards, Martin

xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Martin Toft
Hi, xmms on my computer freezes temporarily when doing disk-intensive tasks, e.g. examining the ID3-tags of a long playlist. It is not a serious problem, it just annoys me that my OpenBSD installation apparently does not perform as well as my friend's Debian GNU/Linux installation, which does

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-20 Thread Martin Toft
Thanks for the replies so far :) Sorry for not replying faster, but here goes: Emmanuel Jarri wrote: The workaround I use is to increase buffer size to its maximum, i.e. 13MB, with 50% to upper pre buffer. It works quite nicely, but I feel it's a dirty workaround... My xmms will not go higher

Re: Recommended window manager for OpenBSD

2006-05-31 Thread Martin Toft
akonsu wrote: > hello > > has anyone tried evilwm (http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/)? is it any good? i > am looking for a good simple keyboard controllable WM. i am doing mostly > development. > > thanks > konstantin I've been using evilwm for almost a year on my workstation and laptop, and I m

Re: OpenBSD 4.7 pictures

2010-05-13 Thread Martin Toft
http://pics.martintoft.dk/Events/OpenBSD%204.7%2020100508/dscn2548.jpg :-D

Java plugin not detected by Firefox

2010-06-30 Thread Martin Toft
Hi misc@ I run a less than one week old -current, together with JDK 1.6 (built from ports) and Firefox 3.6.3. As the subject states, Firefox does not detect the Java plugin found in JDK. $ pkg_info | grep -e firefox -e jdk jdk-1.5.0.16p2 Java2(TM) Standard Edition Dev Kit v1.5.0.16 jd

Re: Java plugin not detected by Firefox

2010-06-30 Thread Martin Toft
Never mind. Kenneth R Westerback replied (thanks!): > Java plugin does not work since Firefox 3.6.x changes the connection > mechanism and requires newer Java. Licensing issues so far prevent > getting Java updated. If you need Java, you need to stay with 3.5.x And people keep telling me Java is

Re: Recommended laptop

2009-12-22 Thread Martin Toft
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:33:43AM +0100, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > Don't know about Thinkpads, but Dell E6400 works great. But it's > around 950 $ or so. IMHO, the E6400 is too big to carry around often. Other than that it feels okay quality-wise. Do not get the edition with an NVIDIA graphics card,

Re: Recommended mini-PCI wireless cards

2009-12-30 Thread Martin Toft
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 05:53:05PM -0500, nixlists wrote: > Hi. What's recommended as far as recent mini PCI wireless cards go - > compatibility and performance-wise? I'd like to upgrade my laptop from > a /g to an /n card. Which n cards do you use and find fast/having good > reception? AFAIK, the

Re: Realtek urtw(4) driver and hostap mode

2009-08-11 Thread Martin Toft
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:17:33PM +0200, Piotrek Kapczuk wrote: > Errr ... Maybe I was not specific enough. I'm talking about 'man 4 > urtw'. How can it be driver independent ? 'Adapter independent' might be more correct. > I've just checked and I also see in 'urtw(4)' manpage that driver can >

Re: Control noise of harddisk

2009-08-15 Thread Martin Toft
Try adding 'atactl wd0 apmdisable' to /etc/rc.local. It should get rid of clicking sounds...

Re: Presentation tool

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Toft
Vim is also an option :-) Example presentation: 1. wget http://www.thecamp.dk/wiki/images/2/22/Slides.vim http://www.thecamp.dk/wiki/images/0/0c/Vim2007tc.txt 2. Open a terminal and resize it to 80x25 2. vim -u Slides.vim Vim2007tc.txt Use K to open/close major topics and zo/zc til o

Re: Presentation tool

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Toft
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:52:27PM +0200, Martin Toft wrote: > 2. vim -u Slides.vim Vim2007tc.txt s/2/3/ ... need coffee!

Re: Dell Latitude E6400 'sluggish' keyboard response with ACPI enabled

2009-10-04 Thread Martin Toft
morrow, so you'll have to wait for potential feedback... Rogier: I experience the same thing. Among a couple of other dmesg@ mails, I sent the following mail in August: ----- Forwarded message from Martin Toft - Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:31:09 +0200 From: Martin Toft To: dm...@op

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 can't find CD drive on Dell Latitude E6500

2010-11-10 Thread Martin Toft
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:24:29AM +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > http://www.eskk.nu/gallery/?album=/bios/&picture=IMAG0115.jpg&fullsize=0 > > Please advise me on what you think would be the best setting. Keeping in > mind that I do not want to corrupt data on the hard drive. A year ago I used a

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