Re: Patch to add 2 words to share/dict/web2

2018-03-05 Thread STeve Andre'
file or should the description be changed? It seems to have grown a bit already, $ wc -l web2 235971 web2 Definitely it should just grow. Having multiple files doesn't make sense, to me. English is a growing language. --STeve Andre'

Re: Regulators as sensors?

2017-11-22 Thread STeve Andre'
On 11/22/17 13:06, Anders Andersson wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:19 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: On 11/21/17 16:31, Mark Kettenis wrote: The diff below exposes voltage regulators as sensors. This makes it easy to look at the current settings of these regulators. The downside is

Re: Regulators as sensors?

2017-11-21 Thread STeve Andre'
aving easy access to these sensorts can't hurt, and might be useful in some situations. I've measured voltages before and found during extreme temperature conditions things changed. So it's possibly useful and doesn't cost much. --STeve Andre'

Re: [WWW] Reverse chronological order for faq/current.html

2017-01-24 Thread STeve Andre'
think about the physical world. When people add things to a list like a posting on a bulletin board, it goes at the end. People just know to look at the end for anything new. So it is online. The effort to scroll down is pretty small. --STeve Andre'

Re: patch: hide processes non owned by a user

2015-01-27 Thread STeve Andre'
ight be or have been a regression somewhere. This seems like another knob, to me. As someone who has helped administrate open access systems, I'm not sure this is useful. You forgot to include the man page additions, too. ;-) --STeve Andre'

Re: Following Current / Flag Day

2015-01-26 Thread STeve Andre'
what made me question this. Thanks. --STeve Andre'

Re: Following Current / Flag Day

2015-01-26 Thread STeve Andre'
ELF objects. okay guenther@, kettenis@, deraadt@ --STeve Andre'

Re: TMP_MAX

2015-01-20 Thread STeve Andre'
e 308M file limit, let alone 2 gigafiles? --STeve Andre'

Re: [source-changes] relayd.conf.5 (an hex -> a hex)

2014-12-22 Thread STeve Andre'
common', it may be still be appropriate for the written word/documentation. whoever wrote that man page originally perhaps thought so. either way. natural languages aren't really mathematical. This isn't grey. "A hex" , not "an hex". None of my teachers who stressed good writing would have let that pass. --STeve Andre'

Re: changing ffs mount between rw and ro while preserving softdep

2014-08-27 Thread STeve Andre'
rw+softdep to rw. And what exactly is the operational/behavioral difference between ro and ro+softdep? Extra code being executed when it doesn't have to be? --STeve Andre'

Re: lynx: disable old protocols

2014-07-16 Thread STeve Andre'
at's it. Case closed, in a reasonable manner, I think. --STeve Andre'

Re: lynx: disable old protocols

2014-07-10 Thread STeve Andre'
manual. Finally, turn off the file editor which can be accessed with "g." using the --disable-dired switch. ok to commit? No. Just because it's an older crufty protocol, it shouldn't be removed 'just because'. I keep on bumping into gopher. bibp is definitely used by others. --STeve Andre'

Re: OpenSSH hole, April 9

2014-04-09 Thread STeve Andre'
On 04/09/14 16:49, Devin Reade wrote: Quoting Theo de Raadt : If tomorrow Damien or I had to announce a major OpenSSH hole, how screwed would the Internet be? Would you mind clarifying this a bit? Was the post strictly a (justified) comment about the lack of funding, or should we be anticipa

Re: HEADS UP: librt revert

2014-03-23 Thread STeve Andre'
On 03/23/14 14:34, Marc Espie wrote: kili@ just committed a revert of the librt addition in src and corresponding patches in ports. If you've built a tree with librt, you want to # rm -f /usr/lib/librt.a Shouldn't that be librt*a to get rid of librt_p.a too? --STeve Andre'

Re: unknown products found in Dell Optiplex 9020

2013-09-09 Thread STeve Andre'
On 09/09/13 07:45, Paul de Weerd wrote: Found a couple of unknown Intel products in a Dell Optiplex 9020: vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x153a (class network subclass ethernet, rev 0x04) at pci0 dev 25 function 0 not configured vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x8c22 (class serial bus subclass

Re: man pages: wireless frequency nit 2GHz vs 2.4GHz

2013-02-14 Thread STeve Andre'
band' there as there are 3 non-continuous ranges). Is it worth it? I don't know. Yes, exactly right--2.4GHz band is correct and consistent with many governmental agencies terminology. This is a picky point that isn't major, but there are clear definitions of the wireless bands, and using them is better. And, consistent with OpenBSD's striving to get it right. --STeve Andre'

Re: ntfs: respect the MNT_FORCE flag upon unmount

2011-12-19 Thread STeve Andre'
s not forced (e.g. you run umount(1)). This sounds great, speaking as a user of this when extracting data from a diseased Windows disk. Thank you. --STeve Andre'

Re: dd(1) support for uppercase size modifiers

2011-10-02 Thread STeve Andre'
ex: args.c === [snip] What other commands allow case insensitive options? I don't see it as desirable to emulate Linuxisms unless there is a good reason, myself. --STeve Andre'

Re: ksh completion

2011-06-19 Thread STeve Andre'
I hope not. I've seen this as well. I want to test this, seeing as how I just bumped into this. Can you post the last patch for this? --STeve Andre'

Re: Small pgrep/pkill enhancement

2011-06-11 Thread STeve Andre'
butions have it. The idea of -i meaning case insensitivity is there already in other (1) commands, so I'd say it makes sense to add. From a practical standpoint, I'm all for it. I've missed killing things because of this. --STeve Andre'

Re: -current kernel freeze

2011-04-07 Thread STeve Andre'
On 04/07/11 20:33, Florian Fuessl wrote: Hi, upgrading GENERIC kernel from snapshot 24-Mar-2011 to -current results in system freezes after some minutes (up to some hours) without any error message, here: OpenBSD 4.9-current (GENERIC) #1: Fri Apr 8 02:20:49 CEST 2011 root@[...]:/usr/src/s

Re: softraid cleanup

2010-10-21 Thread STeve Andre'
I have just built a system where I'm going to do raid, and included this. So far I have found that I have hardware problems which I need to work on before I can comment. I'll be using this hopefully this weekend unless I have major hardware problems. -STeve Andre' On 10/21/

Re: Adding support for Camellia on OpenSSH.

2010-07-19 Thread STeve Andre'
modify is not free software. That's especially galling for software where there are real security considerations: suppose you find a flaw in the algorithm--you can't fix it? Gag. -- STeve Andre' Disease Control Warden Dept. of Political Science Michigan State University A day without Windows is like a day without a nuclear incident.

Re: Thank you for making p2k9 possible!

2009-10-16 Thread STeve Andre'
done than I saw. When you want to find out whats happened (happening) at a hackathon, watching the commits is the best way to see whats going on. --STeve Andre' On Friday 16 October 2009 17:37:18 Nick Rivera wrote: > Sounds interesting. > Can we wait on resulting materials? > &g

Partition question (Was new installer disklabel question)

2009-07-09 Thread STeve Andre'
c. So we have 14 > partitions. We can potentially discover i - p using MBR reading or whatnot > on other architectures, so we have potentially even less. > > We never did altroot automatically, and we don't do it now. What reasons are there for not extending partitions to z? With 2T disks out, having 14 partitions means not being able to make smaller ones. --STeve Andre'

Re: ppp(8) cleanup/fix

2009-07-01 Thread STeve Andre'
It works! This is on my W500 Thinkpad with a Motorola V195 modem via usb. I'm happy. I do hope this gets into 4.6. --STeve Andre' On Wednesday 01 July 2009 12:23:20 Todd T. Fries wrote: > Guys, > > I tested this and it seems ppp in the tree is busted to the point of not >