On Mon, Nov 28, 2011, sc...@web.de wrote:
> Well, after reading "Trouble with large files in current snapshot",
> I would like to ask something different: it is true that FAT filesystems
> of more than 120GB cannot be mounted? Will this change?
Not that I'm aware of.
> I remember when microsoft released windows 2000 and said that 32GB was
> the limit and to move to ntfs. I was already using an 80GB drive and
> the windows 95 manual also contradicted the claims.
Windows will not create FAT filesystems larger than 32GB, so in that
sense that is the limit. It wi
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011, Richard Thornton wrote:
> Fritz Wuehler wrote:
>>
>>
> Am I missing something here? fucking(blowjob(*p)) ?
not really, fritz's past constributions haven't been particularly
worthwhile either.
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Nikolas Slivka
> wrote:
>> Welcome!
>>
>> Where i can find information about BC4318 wifi card is working under
> OpenBSD
>> 5.0?
>
> Read first (last) log on this page
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012, Lars wrote:
> What tools are used in OpenBSD for static source code analysis? I guess
> Lint is considered one tool? Do you, Ted, use other tools than Lint?
> This post is not just meant to be sent for Ted, of course anyone else
> could reply if they know about source code a
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> If only one disk is affected at a time, 5.0 is the fastest, and has the
> most trouble with responsiveness while being fast, this is likely to be
> improved by a fair I/O scheduler. There is a generic framework in place
> now for schedulers to get plu
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> At 01:30 PM 1/11/2012, Jeremy O'Brien wrote:
>
>>4.3 was released May 1, 2008. That's almost 4 years old software. What
>>are you expecting here? Someone to check out the code from that
>>version and deeply inspect what may be causing your problem, that
Incorrect.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012, Richard Thornton wrote:
> keeps looking for library c.60.1 which does not exist in a vanilla 5.0
> install.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Nick Holland
> wrote:
>
>> On 12/19/11 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> > On 2011-12-19, Richard Thornton wr
I don't think the name of the program ever changed. (Who would want
to type MircoGNUEmacs every time you edit a file?) mg used to be an
acronym, now it officially means nothing.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012, Mark Lumsden wrote:
> Anyone know the history behind mg being called mg?
>
> THis in the mg tut
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012, Paul Dejean wrote:
> I'll start working on a patch (even though it'll take me forever) if I
> can be confident it wouldn't be vetoed because people don't like the
> concept.
It shouldn't take long at all. You are looking for the
sysctl_proc_args function in sys/kern/kern_sys
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012, Alan Cheng wrote:
> 2. what is the disadvantage of using a disklabel partition without fdisk
> partition in above mentioned scenario?
your disk is now unlike 99.9% of the disks everybody else uses.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012, Jan Stary wrote:
> If it so happens that there is not enough memory for some running
> process (a situaion I cannot rule out now), and there is no swap
> to deal with this, is that a reason for a process to be coredumped?
> (I think that I have seen processes just die with EN
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012, Chris Bennett wrote:
> I am running snapshot from right before ports unlock on i386.
>
> I can use xlock just fine, however when another user logs in, it
> segfaults saying need to relink program.
Actually, it says you need to relink it, then it segfaults some time
after. Th
you are running config from a different version than the source you
are trying to compile.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
> arrrgh. hit the send b4 that was finished, anyways
>
>
> I install 5.0 AMD64 base..
> # uname -a
> OpenBSD jimg.indx.ca 5.0 GENERIC.MP#63 amd64
>
>
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:05:19 -0500
> Ted Unangst wrote:
>
>> you are running config from a different version than the source you
>> are trying to compile.
>
> Ok, but if I've started with 5.0 Release,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012, David Walker wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to do:
> pkg_add http://firmware.openbsd.olg/firmware/pgt-firmware-1.2.tgz
The correct url is openbsd.ORG.
As a short term workaround, type -c at the boot prompt, then "disable
cbb" at the next prompt, then quit, and see what happens.
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> Kendall Shaw writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a lifebook p1110 which causes a kernel panic related to APM, I
>> think. Either b
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012, Nick Holland wrote:
> On 03/07/12 18:32, Marc Espie wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:10:12AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote:
>>> yes, scrollback is something that was sacrificed on the installer to
>>> keep it able to fit on a floppy (contrary to another contribution to
>>> thi
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 04:40:47PM -0700, Barry Grumbine wrote:
>> Available disks are: sd0 sd1 sd2
>> Which one is the root disk? (or 'done') [sd0]
>>
>> At this point I usually say "oh crap", hit ^c, and go read the dmesg
>> or `disklabel sd1`
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012, Kaya Saman wrote:
>> try: automake --version
>> autoconf --version
>>
>> The messages should be self-explanatory if you didn't define certain
>> environment variables, e.g., I have this in my environment:
>
> automake --version
> autoconf --version
>
> come up with thi
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012, Mo Libden wrote:
> 10 PQ Ted Unangst :
>> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012, Frank Denis wrote:
>> > Hi Matthew,
>> >
>> > Good catch. I'm going to fix that.
>> >
>> > On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Matthew Dempsky
wrote:
>&g
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012, "AndrC) S." wrote:
> why are the /etc/nologin contents not printed (neither to root nor to
> test) when PermitRootLogin is no?
this is a bug. pr6641 to be exact.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012, Olivier Cochard-LabbC) wrote:
> I can't do a "make release" with up-to-date -current code (just
> synchronized) with default value (no personnal hack/patch).
>
> amd64/ramdiskA kernel seems too big for the floppy image, here is an
> extract of my log file:
It should be fixed
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012, Brett wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
> Henning Brauer wrote:
>> how exactly is preventing yourself from killing your own X server
>> increasing security again?
>>
>
> By stopping anyone wandering by my desk (or the cat) from pressing a few
> buttons and getting
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012, Jan Stary wrote:
> However, access() is used in test(1):
>
> Is this a problem?
It is not possible to close the race between when test sees a file and
when the parent process sees test's exit code. Write your shell
scripts with caution.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote:
> 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0'
What about just disabling acpiec?
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012, Jay Hart wrote:
>>> 1. Unless I disable acpi (see dmesg), box freezes at 'acpiec0 at acpi0'
>>
>> What about just disabling acpiec?
>>
>>
> You're a GENIUS, that was it! ;')
>
> How do I make that stick reboot to reboot? Assume I
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012, Beavis wrote:
> hi,
>
> is there an equivalent to udevadm in OpenBSD or BSD in particular?
hotplugd maybe.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012, Andres Perera wrote:
>> Maybe you could also close some of those 999 keep-alive sessions and
>> pre-load sessions you have open and retry. Seriously why does a
>> webbrowser need 1024 file descriptors to be open at the same time?
>> Are you concurrently reading 500 homepages?
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> i'm using a simple scp of a 100MB file. scp reports its transmission
>> speed. and i'm comparing the same transmission of the same file between
>> the same two hosts with and without vpn encryption. it may not be
>> the best or most accurate measurem
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012, C)C CC C;C CC CC C wrote:
> nginx is great piece of software, but it doesn't do CGI, how users will run
> bgplg, for example ?
There's about a dozen different ways to make cgi scripts work with
nginx.
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> I was looking at this entropy gatherer (havege) and was wondering if
> OpenBSD uses any similar techniques?
>
> www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/
No. We don't think limiting entropy to being used as a seed for a
random number generator is a limitati
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012, edasky wrote:
> rs232 -d /dev/ttyUSB1-s'\h 2A 61 00 06 88 01 20 87 3E \r" -r8 -hex
>
> Now I need to achieve the same result under OpenBSD (5.0)
> Anybody got an idea how to send such a hex string in /dev/ttyU1 ?
Maybe something like perl -e 'print "\x2a\x61\x00\x88"' > /de
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012, Andres Perera wrote:
> if they don't use the following to boot:
>
> * bootp (requires more than one system)
> * a cd (requires an optical drive)
> * a floppy (requires a floppy drive)
>
> then they boot from hdd. it doesn't matter if it's usb, sata or what have you
>
> ther
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012, Mo Libden wrote:
> Wow. If memory serves, rfork() availability was a feature.
> Now it is gone... Any reasons to share please?
>
> It allowed creation of interesting types of processes,
> awesome flexibility regarding share of memory space
> and/or file handle tables.
rthre
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012, Laurence Rochfort wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm considering purchasing a domestic SSD for my laptop.
>
> Does OpenBSD 5.1 support SSDs and the TRIM command if needed?
It supports SSD drives like any other drive, but no special features.
Specifically, there's no TRIM support.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:07, Gleydson Soares wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:29:46PM +0400, Alexei Malinin wrote:
>> At a time when I listen to music on the xmms
>> and simultaneously begin to move any X window,
>> the sound stops. The sound resumes after finishing
>> of moving of the window
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 14:25, frantisek holop wrote:
> hi there,
>
> how can i make ksh leave the '#' alone in the url i am passing
> as a parameter?
Put it in quotes.
$ echo "url#anchor"
url#anchor
> $ curl -v "http://example.com/test#1";
>> GET /test HTTP/1.1
> ^
http://tools.ietf.org/ht
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 16:07, Louis V. Lambrecht wrote:
> Be cautious when citing examples on a list :-)
>
> louis@athlon ~ $ whois example.com
What's your point? RFC 2606 specifically reserves example.com for
example purposes.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 07:15, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
> As requested, here's the same test case a little more readable:
>
> This leaves a backdoor open (possibly in the saved UID):
Yes, if you don't clear the saved uid, you can still switch back to
it. You should use setresuid if it's ava
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 07:33, Alexander Hall wrote:
> Alan Corey wrote:
>
>>I've seen this before, I wonder if there's some environment variable I
>>can set to stop it?
>>
>>I try make fetch on a port, it fails due to a bad site. I hit Ctrl-C
>>to
>>stop it, it goes to the next site and downloa
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:35, patrick keshishian wrote:
>
> right. i suppose, what I really meant was, based on the dmesg from OP,
> how does one determine sandybridge-ness? (my eyeballs didn't catch any
> obvious references). Or does one need to read the manufacturer's
> marketing docs to know?
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:44, Martin SchrC6der wrote:
> 2012/5/2 Sebastian Reitenbach :
>> On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 18:36 CEST, Martin SchrC6der
>> wrote:
>> But citing the 5.1 Announce E-Mail:
>>
>> ...
>> Security patch announcements are sent to the security-annou...@openbsd.org
>> mailing list.
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 12:33, Weldon Goree wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 07:37 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote:
>> I wouldn't recommend the iwn(4) devices. I've had a bad experience even
>> with those in the man page.
>
> YMMV; I've had good results with the 4965 AGN. Of note: NetBSD 6 (in
> beta
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 00:14, Alan Corey wrote:
> Is there a way to get the name of a file that's open when all you've
> got is a file descriptor?
>
> I'm working on porting something, that I didn't write. with directories
> full of source. I'm seeing a problem with an ioctl being the wrong type
On 10/18/07, Richard Toohey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> # diff -u /tmp/cp.c cp.c
> --- /tmp/cp.c Thu Oct 18 21:50:07 2007
> +++ cp.cThu Oct 18 22:48:37 2007
> @@ -237,6 +237,10 @@
> */
> type = FILE_TO_DIR;
> + if (type == FILE_TO_DIR)
> +
On 10/19/07, Gregg Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/19/07, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > no, because that section is talking about files, not directories.
>
> A directory is a kind of file:
>
> "file
> "An object that can be
On 10/21/07, Richard Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to bypass this limit somehow?
depends, but if it's easy to bypass a limit, it's not much of a limit.
> Do you plan to increase this limit?
i don't think so.
On 10/22/07, Richard Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there possible workarounds for my program to allocate more memory than 1GB?
you can mmap a large file with PROT_SHARED. this doesn't count as
data, since you are in essence providing your own swap file for it.
> Don't you think, that now
On 10/23/07, Per-Erik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If OpenBSD doesn't adopt to the virtualization trend it will used only
> as an obscure firewall box.
people have been saying "if openbsd doesn't it will
only be used as an obscure firewall box" for years. what else is new?
On 10/24/07, Christoph Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - aio(2) support
creaking along.
> - POSIX ptsname() (this is used in a python binding module)
dunno.
> - newer gcc version due to a structure padding bug with
> an alignment attribute hidden in a typedef (this is fixed in gcc 3.4)
>
On 10/25/07, Christian Weisgerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to turn off the long line scrolling in ksh?
>
> No.
> Why would you want to be unable to edit the start of a long line?
i think he wants line wrapping instead of scrolling. i
On 10/26/07, Lars Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the specific context of CALEA, the AMT wikipedia page as of Fri Oct
> 26 07:45:59 GMT 2007, does not contain any references to CALEA, but do
> contain the links I provided above. The CALEA page points to links
> easily found with search engi
On 10/25/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:19AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > Well, there is no solution. 16 was chosen a lot of years ago as a
> > reasonable amount of state to carry around, and that's the standard
> > and we're probably going to st
On 10/26/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What, then, is the correct way to separate the project files of more
> > > than 16 projects, where some users will need access to all of the
> > > groups?
>
> There has to be _some_ solution but it doesn't have to revolve around
> group
On 10/31/07, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/31/07, Brian A Seklecki (Mobile)
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Some *BSD systems are adjusting PCM driver support to allow multiple
> > process to open /dev/dsp / /dev/audio multiple times in-exclusively,
> > mitigating the needs for
On 10/31/07, n0g0013 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> why must we railroad ourselves to a decision before the discussion
> has even happened? it would appear that most do not want the discussion
> to happen even though they are neither obligated to participate or
> action the ideas within it. that is
On 10/31/07, Marcus Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If we had such documentation, even if it isn't kept up-to-date, it would be a
> start point. As I stated in an earlier message, OpenBSD code is very, very
> readable. It could be used in lots of college classes around the world. A
> book could
On 10/31/07, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> n0g0013 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > i didn't find it on google (i am a google retard), if you post me the
> > link not only will i offer to maintain it for the developers but will
> > endeavour to link-up with the website team to
On 11/2/07, Jason Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I downloaded and untarred a fresh 4.2 src and sys tree.
> Then:
>
> # cd /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/
> # config GENERIC
> /dev/null:1: syntax error
> *** Stop.
i don't think this has anything to do with 4.1 or 4.2. you have a
broken something
On 11/5/07, Wade, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any guess as to why I'm losing about 33% of my RAM?
> When you are only working with 32MB to start with every little bit counts.
the kernel and the buffer cache have to go somewhere.
On 11/7/07, badeguruji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> that is true. especially if you notice that installing one pkg install all
> the other it depends on. there has to be some way in pkg_info to reflect this
> info that: how and when was 'any' pkg installed? otherwise i would be
> disappointed.
On 11/7/07, David Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> style(9) man page (DESCRIPTION section) says:
> Then there's a blank line, followed by the /usr/include files. The
> /usr/include files should be sorted!
>
> I guess this means alphabetically. Can someone confirm or deny please?
mostly
On 11/7/07, Arnaud Bergeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> stat -f"%Sc" /var/db/pkg/
>
> should give you the change time of the inode. I am not exactly
> certain if this will always correspond to the install time, but on my
> machine, it does.
only if you haven't added any dependencies after the in
On 11/9/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just for example, a source file that is sparse badly, don't really have
> allocated disk block yet, but when copy over, via scp, or rsync will
> actually use that space on the destination servers. All the servers are
> identical (or suppose to
On 11/11/07, Sean Darby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If anybody from the OpenBSD team ever works for Google, it will certainly be
> a very wise move on behalf of Google for hiring them.
do the people currently working at google count? or does it have to
be a new hire?
instead of pondering problems with using the whole disk, you could
just use svnd with a file.
On 11/16/07, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/16/07, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > instead of pondering problems with using the whole disk, you could
> > just use svnd with a file.
>
> Yeah but doesn't this hint at some horrible
On 11/17/07, Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:34:22 -0800, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > it hints at using tools the wrong way leading to poor results.
>
> Who says the tool is used the wrong way?
> You?
me.
On 11/17/07, Die Gestalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to be explained why you have to do all these steps to encrypt
> a partition. Isn't it possible to have some sort of filter driver that
> simply ciphers and deciphers data as it is received, a little bit like
> a GEOM plugin?
anything i
On 11/23/07, Anders Langworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Sharp MP30 notebook that won't boot on OpenBSD/i386. I am
> unsure if my situation is a bug or unsupported hardware. The issue
> seems to be the CPU. It is a Transmeta Efficeon processor at 1.60 GHz.
> The processor is supposed
On 11/24/07, Dan Shechter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In x86 I know (or think I know) that the idle loop is implemented with
> the HALT command. I could not find any HALT command in MIPS assembly.
>
> I tried to read the idle loop in MIPS asm, but as I don't know mips
> assembly I could not follow
On 11/25/07, Markus Bergkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an image file of a Linux bootable CF-card. The image is created
> with 'dd if=/dev/sdc of=imagefile.bin' on a machine running Linux. When
> I try to write that image to another CF-card with 'dd if=imagefile.bin
> of=/dev/sd1c'
On 11/25/07, Markus Bergkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the detected geometry was not big enough to hold the imagefile. I guess
> I'll have to have a chat with the guy who made the imagefile to see if
> the image could be shrinked.
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> Btw, what limitations are there on
On 11/26/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My understanding's is that all drives are using an abstraction layer
> between the kernel and the drivers itself.
>
> Now, I don't know if there is a difference between drivers for a single
> processor kernel and a multiple core kernel. So, f
On 11/26/07, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The wxwidgets version in packages for 4.2 is fairly old - wxwidgets
> 2.6.3 and it was apparently built using lots of the assorted string
> functions that the OpenBSD gcc pisses and moans about. If I link most
> anything to wxwidets
On 11/27/07, Manpreet Nehra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i am using the 4.2 release and that's why wondering if the ports tree
> is a little outdated, since alot of stuff has changed over from
> september 1 to Novemeber 1 when 4.2 actually released. Arent the
> release base and ports in sync?
it'
On 11/6/07, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I close the lid on this laptop ( Thinkpad T41 ) the machine goes
> into a deep sleep but will not recover with OpenBSD 4.2. With 4.1 this
> worked flawlessly. xorg is not running during these tests.
it will often come back if you cycle throug
On 12/5/07, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you dismiss PKI and the benefits that OpenPGP signatures provide to your
> user community?
yes.
On 12/5/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Come on... twice a year and get the benefit of not being excluded from
> company policies which require digital signature of software downloaded
> through the internet.
sign it yourself, then download it. problem solved.
give it a rest guys.
has anyone ever actually been the victim of some
government/corporate/"the man" attack where they slipped trojan
openbsd binaries to you?
do you have any idea how hard it really is to mount such an attack?
without being detected? and what's the trojan going to do? copy all
On 12/7/07, Gilbert Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my fstab I have :
>
> /dev/cgd0b noneswap sw 0 0
and you are not running openbsd.
On 12/12/07, Mathieu Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To my mind software quality also depends on ease of use. So I would be
> happy to help improve OpenBSD by making it easier to install and use.
> But I don't know if you would be interesting by this kind of
> 'improvement'. I don't want to was
On 12/12/07, Mats Erik Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now I am curious, are there any available documentation
> as to what features the compilation option SMALL_KERNEL
> definitely prevents? I did not succeed so far in
> locating such a text. Of course, the man-page mentions
no. SMALL_KER
On 12/13/07, Jeremy Huiskamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple
> > interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve
>
> When I read that, it sounded a lot to me like saying "if you're not a
> skilled medical practi
On 12/14/07, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not
> install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.
so much for free speech.
On 12/14/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am just curious - why exactly were all the DJB ports dropped?
>
>Precisely because of what the commit message says:
>
>> "Removed qmail; license does not permit modification [camield
>> 2001-08-14]"
>
> Sadly you'r
On 12/15/07, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After reveiwing the OpenBSD Goals and Polices, it appears to me that
> the intent is that OpenBSD should be a free/Open Source system. But
> unless I am missing something that is not actually made clear. The
"Copyright law is complex
On 12/15/07, Jon . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The systems should inform users (or just flag to sys admins yo this is a
> blob) with something along the lines of:
>
> "You and your system are now at the complete mercy of this vendor's
> competence and self-interested wishes, expect to be degraded
On 12/16/07, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is also inconsistent with providing URL's to software that is not
> free to all.
not at all. openbsd is free. other software, that is not free, does
not make openbsd less free.
On 12/16/07, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> > On Dec 15, 2007 10:56 PM, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> If I wrote a a BSD Licensed program to mailbomb jews.
> >> Would that be acceptable within ports ?
> >>
> >
> > and who exactly wo
On Dec 18, 2007 4:36 AM, Gregg Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/CERT+Secure+Coding+Standards
>
> Looks pretty good to me, but it's beyond my competence to judge. I'd
> be very interested in what experienced OBSD developers make of i
On 12/22/07, Brian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. Rather than auditing a lot of code, correcting a lot of coding mistakes,
> like the OpenBSD security team has done, and still do, why not shift from C
> to something, just as fast and powerfull as C, but more secure? Again like
> Ada. (to co
On 12/27/07, Miod Vallat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, but no C++ bashing thread can be complete until someone mentions the
> excellent FQA site: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
this one alone was priceless: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/io.html#fqa-15.1
and i've even written more c++ code than c code.
On 12/30/07, Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Security fixes in fvwm-menu-directory. (CVE-2006-5969)
i don't get it. i can make a magic directory name and... run commands
as myself?
> Security fixes in FvwmCommand
> Security fix for fvwm-menu-directory. See BugTraq id 9161.
> Security patch in f
On 1/2/08, Xavier Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 16 partitions:
> #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a:481950 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16
your partition is not properly offset from the beginning of the disk,
where all the goodies li
On 1/3/08, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He didn't say OpenBSD was non-free, but that it distributed non-free
> Software.
>
> Looking at
> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/packages/i386/zangband-2.6.2p1.tgz
>
> ... seems to me pretty a pretty clear case.
stop repeating
On 1/3/08, Jack J. Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to ask the community what they think: Is the hiring of open
> source star coders in expectation of
> ancillary benefit from their influence in Open Source projects a win-win
> form of "voting with your
> feet" or is it an ethical confli
On 1/3/08, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working on putting a website up now where I'll fully disclose the
> details. Lots of pictures and details. I will attribute the dd used to
> OpenBSD (the best OS on the planet bar none... although the dd on the
> install CD did not support the con
On 1/3/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought that there was a trend in the industry away from tapes toward
> hard-drive-based systems, e.g. virtual tape libraries that are basically
> large file servers with far more capacity than throughput. If bitrot is
> a serious concern,
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