Re: ZFS in OpenBSD

2010-03-22 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:29:51 -, Dan Naumov wrote: The question of why 2 different BSDs have no issues including specific code into their base, while another does is a valid one. When asked "hard questions", labeling the person asking them a troll is sadly a common occurrence on the intern

Re: crontab "last day of the month"

2010-04-06 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:24:27 +0100, frantisek holop wrote: e.g. an archived log file of march that doesn't contain april entries (from the "future"), although it's all right if it contains a couple of stray entries from february (the casualties of log rotation). Then depending on what is cr

Re: OpenBSD 4.8

2010-09-15 Thread Robert Bronsdon
g how to use it. 4.7 should do fine for this (not forgetting to test 4.8 when its released). Work out why what you've said wont work etc. Then you will be in a good/better position to know what to roll out and 4.8 will be released fully. -- Robert Bronsdon

Re: USB key with OpenBSD - hangs at POST

2009-11-22 Thread Robert Bronsdon
Don't forget booting from USB is a black art. Different USB keys will represent themselves in different ways, some keys represent themselves as USB Floppy drives, some as USB CD-ROM drives. Some motherboards see USB keys as valid boot media, not all motherboards. Given your problem is during POS

Re: Web Browsers

2009-12-20 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: What is your opnion on Chrome, OpenBSD gurus? Okay we all know about it's privacy and identity leakage concerns. Privacy and Google are interesting. Obviously it makes sense for Google to collect as much data on you as possible (tin f

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:25:48 -, bofh wrote: What kind of basic unix admin can't deal with % export EDITOR=vi % crontab -e The kind that I don't want messing with crontab to begin with. -- Using Opera M2: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Re: SSD with firmware upgrade under OpenBSD

2010-11-30 Thread Robert Bronsdon
many will fail inside the 2,000,000 hours while running your script then how many will fail sat on a shelf for that time period. The disk you've (for any given you) purchased will fall somewhere between these. -- Robert Bronsdon

Re: Donations

2010-12-05 Thread Robert Bronsdon
ted up" by politics along its way. -- Robert Bronsdon

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-09 Thread Robert Bronsdon
t in the UK you can be held in contempt and jailed for not releasing keys to the police. Hence the need for encryption with plausible denial. -- Robert Bronsdon