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new_guy | 1 Nov 2008 01:01
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Re: new home box for secure data storage

Douglas A. Tutty-2 wrote:
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> If the box is running but no users are logged-in, why can't the data be
> encrypted and therefore private? 
> 

It can be. Use OpenSSL or GnuPG or PGP symmetrically (only store the
passphrase in your head) in addition to volume/disk level encryption. Tar up
your secret files, encrypt the tar file and then remove the secret files.
When you need to read the secret files, decrypt the tar and then extract
what you need. Wash, rinse and repeat. Cron a sh script to dd /dev/zero onto
the home partition until it's full (don't want sophisticated guys viewing
your unallocated space)... know what I mean? Man, this is getting a bit
paranoid. 

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Brian Keefer | 1 Nov 2008 04:28
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Recommend hardware for video surveillance system?

I'm finally getting around to starting my project to build a home- 
monitoring system.  I'm going to need multiple capture devices inside  
the home, and at least one outside as well.  I'm looking for  
recommendations on a video capture card, and wireless video cameras.   
I don't mind spending > $100 US per cam if it's worth it.

Also, any software recommendations would be appreciated.

I've searched the archives, and it looks like a few other people have  
started similar projects, but there aren't too many details about  
what anyone did.  I'm planning on keeping track of the steps and  
hopefully documenting things well enough to submit to undeadly,  
assuming the project is a success.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Matt Schwartz | 1 Nov 2008 06:47
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intel q35 on-board graphics card

Hello,

I have the intel q35 on-board graphics card and am tearing my hair out 
to get it to work.  Dmesg finds it but states that it is not 
configured??.  X errors out with a cannot allocate video ram error. 
Unfortunately, I am not in a position to post my logs just yet.  Could 
someone at least provide a next step for troubleshooting.  I have 
attempted to manually set the ram in the xorg.conf file to no avail.  I 
do know vesa works but vesa sucks.  What does it mean when memory cannot 
be allocated?

Thanks,
Matt
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Jason Dixon | 1 Nov 2008 06:43
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DCBSDCon 2009 Call for Papers

The DCBSDCon conference has opened up a Call for Papers for the 2009
event.  Speakers are welcome to submit any topic of interest, although
security themes are preferred. This conference leads up to the very
popular ShmooCon hacker convention in Washington, D.C. where OpenBSD
developers and users are always in attendance.

Main Website: http://www.dcbsdcon.org/
Call For Papers: http://www.dcbsdcon.org/cfp.html

P.S.  ShmooCon registration opens Saturday, November 1 at 12pm EDT. If
you're planning to attend both events, make sure you register for their
event.  Previous attendees know how hard it can be to get tickets.

ShmooCon: http://www.shmoocon.org/registration.html

Hope to see you there!

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my mail | 1 Nov 2008 08:11
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Re: OpenBSD 4.4 released, Nov 1. Enjoy!

--- On Fri, 10/31/08, Theo de Raadt <deraadt <at> cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:

> From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt <at> cvs.openbsd.org>
> Subject: OpenBSD 4.4 released, Nov 1.  Enjoy!
> To: misc <at> openbsd.org
> Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 4:34 PM
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Nov 1, 2008.
> 
> We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD
> 4.4.
> This is our 24th release on CD-ROM (and 25th via FTP).  We
> remain
> proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with
> only two remote
> holes in the default install.
> 

thank you theo for the great works, really glad for openbsd

long life openbsd
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mherrb | 1 Nov 2008 08:22
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Re: openbsd-current strange keyboard behaviour

Did you guys fiddle with /etc/ttys or the way to start X?

This looks like the know problem of X and the process on console fighting  
for input because they are sharing the same virtual terminal device.
Normally there's no getty(8) process attached to ttyC4 so that X can attach  
to it (and xdm isi configured to use vt05 - which corresponds to ttyC4  
since VT numbers in X start at 01). If you activate a getty(8) process on  
this VT too, X will not find a free one and attach to ttyC0 anyways causing  
problems if you have processes trying to get input from ttyC0.
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Maurice Janssen | 1 Nov 2008 08:32

netinet6/in6.c fix for 4.4?

Hi,

About a month ago, there was a security fix for -current, 4.2-stable and
4.3-stable.  I expected to see the same fix for 4.4-stable just before
the release date, but I haven't seen it in cvs yet.

Will there be a fix for 4.4-stable or not?

Thanks,
Maurice
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Mihai Popescu B.S. | 1 Nov 2008 10:01
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incorrect MD5 file on mirror

Hello,

I got the install44.iso and MD5 from snapshots from
openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de and the MD5 file failed the test.

I got the MD5 from ftp.openbsd.org and run it against the
install44.iso from openbsd.informatik[...] and it reports OK.

Comparing the two MD5 files, there are major differences, looks like
the MD5 from informatik is wrong.
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Ted Unangst | 1 Nov 2008 10:14
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Re: clearing /tmp

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Lars Noodin <larsnooden <at> openoffice.org>
wrote:
>> Read hier(7) manual.
>
> That's an exceptionally useful page.
> I was looking for something like that with 'apropos'.

If you haven't done so, you should read the afterboot man page,
followed by its references.  hier is one of them.
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Mark Nipper | 1 Nov 2008 10:44

Re: multiple subnets and gateways on CARP interface

        Nada?  Nothing?  Has anyone attempted to do this with
CARP interfaces or even regular interfaces for that matter?

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