Posted
about 14 hours
ago
by
t...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer tg)
As I wrote,
I asked for flute notes. Well, piano notes are ok too, although I don’t
have my electric organ any longer, they can easily be transposed, even
if I don’t know the software (could do it by hand though). And I might
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give midiplay(1) a shot (I bet it’ll sound like PC-Speaker emulation…).
Vincent
kindly provides more input (apparently one more of these Simtec people,
but that’s just my guess).
Since ports/security/ekeyd runs happily on herc and
most of my patches were not just applied but even appreciated, thanks
Daniel, and the
results speak for themselves (I even get stats from daily.local mailed
to me every night), and we had some fun discussions, I like it. I think
these whom I ordered additional ones for are, too. (I wonder if I should
invest into a ten-pack bulk ones and re-sell them at conferences, but the
next one is so close to the UK they
probably will be there by themselves.)
I must admit I also have the context switching problem (but hey, that’s
what you get for being a sysadmin, and our
coffee (GEPA, ganze Bohne, im Eimer, fair gehandelt),
even if not Café Libertad,
who, incidentally, are Debian Wine distributors, is good), but since I’m
usually not working for customer projects, I’m rarely time bound, and
quite some good ideas have come from distraction (or timeouts, such as
personal needs or getting coffee/food/…).
Now I still wish I could split myself in half to get more time for all
the projects I have… [Less]
Posted
10 days
ago
by
t...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer tg)
I have compiled a new snapshot (i386 only) and uploaded the following
flavours: MirOS
bsd4grml, MirOS bsd4me-current
(Live OS), MirBSD-current netboot
(NetInstall for i386), the Midi-ISO (bi-arch manifold
NetInstall), and the
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checksums.
The /MirOS/current/older/ subdirectory containing partial and
incremental upgrades for older MirBSD-current snapshots is gone for now.
The 20091115 (i386) snapshot is a security upgrade (contains the OpenSSL
panic patch in its second version), bugfix (all errata mentioned in the “wtf ist hallowe’en”
announcement are fixed if applicable), and feature upgrade: the installer
and first boot recognise a Simtec
Entropy Key if plugged in (for the installer, break into a shell and
run /usr/libexec/ekeyrng if plugging it in later) for increased
entropy generation; after first-time installation and reboot, the user is
supposed to install ports/security/ekeyd and use that (for which
there are binary packages
as well).
The MirOS Project’s servers are or will be upgraded as well; please bear
in mind this implies short outages of service. Furthermore, due to the TLS protocol design error, some
things may not work any more, since we applied the OpenSSL “panic patch”,
which disables all renegotiation, but allows applications to re-enable it,
if they knew about that possibility at compile time, by setting a run-time
flag before initiating the connection. (None we know of does, though.) [Less]
Posted
10 days
ago
by
t...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer tg)
I have compiled a new snapshot (i386 only) and uploaded the following
flavours: MirOS
bsd4grml, MirOS bsd4me-current
(Live OS), MirBSD-current netboot
(NetInstall for i386), the Midi-ISO (bi-arch manifold
NetInstall), and the
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checksums.
The /MirOS/current/older/ subdirectory containing partial and
incremental upgrades for older MirBSD-current snapshots is gone for now.
The 20091115 (i386) snapshot is a security upgrade (contains the OpenSSL
panic patch in its second version), bugfix (all errata mentioned in the “wtf ist hallowe’en”
announcement are fixed if applicable), and feature upgrade: the installer
and first boot recognise a Simtec
Entropy Key if plugged in (for the installer, break into a shell and
run /usr/libexec/ekeyrng if plugging it in later) for increased
entropy generation; after first-time installation and reboot, the user is
supposed to install ports/security/ekeyd and use that (for which
there are binary packages
as well).
The MirOS Project’s servers are or will be upgraded as well; please bear
in mind this implies short outages of service. Furthermore, due to the TLS protocol design error, some
things may not work any more, since we applied the OpenSSL “panic patch”,
which disables all renegotiation, but allows applications to re-enable it,
if they knew about that possibility at compile time, by setting a run-time
flag before initiating the connection. (None we know of does, though.) [Less]
Posted
11 days
ago
by
t...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer tg)
I am, indeed,
happy with my eKey. I’ve
ported the ekeyd
support software (but could not get ekey-ulusbd to work), created a real
lot of patches, and discussed with «rjek» in IRC happily.
I now get about 4 KiB/sec on
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large streams (such as 64 KiB) reads from
srandom(4), with 8 KiB/sec initially, in contrast to the less-than-100
Bytes per second (300 Bytes per second initially) without the eKey.
Of course, there’s still room for improvement – I fixed the ioctl(2)
calls, removed strcpy(3) and sprintf(3) calls, and added arc4random_buf(3)
calls for generating the nonce (which can now be made much larger than
the 12 conservative bytes the original code reads from urandom(4)), and
made it work at all on our platform (and, possible, OpenBSD).
But I get statistics now, even if told that my ekeyrng mksh(1)
script is “Cute”.
Make sure you update to at least luasocket-2.0.1-1 for some
bugfix (pkg_info(1) has a
bug preventing it from seeing that – what worries me even more are
some outputs not sent with the mail), and that you have a recent kernel
(post the “wtf ist hallowe’en” snapshot!) since lsusb (even when ported)
doesn’t output anything, and nobody knows what arguments to ekey-ulusbd
are needed to make it find the eKey.
ObInfo: new CA bundles are out too, and more binary packages. [Less]
Posted
13 days
ago
by
t...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer tg)
Neil, I am
happy with my eKey, and I
would blog it if I had a blog ☺ (And yours doesn’t allow comments. But
then, Daniel’s doesn’t,
either.) I’d have liked proper (C flute / piano / voice) notes, though…
never got
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the hang of string instruments.
Of course I still have to make a MirPort for that Lua dæmon, but for
now, things work quite well. (I do have a rather large TODO and woke up
with headaches and slight cold today.) [Less]
Posted
17 days
ago
by
t...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer tg)
The snapshot
has another bug I discovered after converting my laptop to a showcase:
lynx(1) charset defaults, after disabling auto-detection, to the wrong
one (the news item has been updated, again).
I came back from
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OpenRheinRuhr,
and (apparently in contrast to many others) liked it, save for the (a)social
event, which some organisers admit hasn't been what was promised to them. My
hotel was actually some kind of Vereinshaus
and Billard club, so I had to eat supper (after fleeing the Casino, I had
wanted to eat with some others deciding to split/fork, but formorer couldn't
decide, so I walked the 3km, but didn't find anything appealing on the way,
since I walked towards the outside of the city) in a smokey bar. So 2007,
that. But I watched some kind of Billard competition during that, the meal
was good and much, and the beer good and rather affordable. (I even took a
Krug to my room with me to flee smoke.)
Breakfast was included, the quality much more than I had expected at that
price (I paid almost twice that in Basel, where I didn't even have a private
loo adjourning the room, much less a proper bathroom with douche). The city,
despite confusing it with other Ruhrpott
cities beginning with BO, was nice and quiet (although the visitor
count suggests that it was too remote, I rather prefer this to the usual
rush and street mob, and it was still lively).
I think you'll find more coverage, photographies (hopefully not of me,
as I wore a pullover forbidding it) and opinions on the 'net soonish, even
dissing if I may harbour a guess (not without reason, from what I've been
told privately), and, as I still have a headache (as usual...) I refrain
from writing more. The MirBSD^H^H^HGRML CDs will be distributed
at 26C3 by formorer from the Grml team *grins and I wonder if the
celebrities equipeed with a MirCD or MirUSB stick, like Werner Koch, will
make good use of it ;-) [Less]
Posted
19 days
ago
by
t...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer tg)
OpenRheinRuhr
will see our latest
snapshot on CDs (although we seem to be short of flyers ☹). Complete,
with MirOS BSD (i386, sparc; i386 Live) and MirGRML (i386).
The next snapshot’s codename has been decided upon angrily
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today: “wtf
is with all these
bugs?”
Expect
a fix for the latter sometime soon, it does in fact have more effect than
most sites say, to avoid Panikmache
(unlike that Schweinegrippe stuff);
I’m lucky my online banking stuff keeps SIDs in the URI ipv Cookie, but
still… very bad. Switching renegotiation off as a quick würgaround also
is evil, for example, my SMTP setup (using X.509v3 SSL certificate auth
for relaying) might break. But we are said to expect an amended SSL/TLS
protocol soon, hopefully with OpenSSL patch.
ekeyrng is
a very rough draft (shell prototype) currently driving, together with a
small USB backport, a Simtec
EntropyKey in herc into wrandom(4) (for now). Really, the
Lua tools should be used, but this is good for the installer, although
the TPM, eKey
and truerand – cprng(8) – functionality should be combined into one small,
efficient, C dæmon doing so (but without the hacks to keep cprng(8) within
one memory page to cease swapping). Still, it’s great! [Less]
Posted
22 days
ago
by
bsie...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer bsiegert)
For compatibility reasons, the current version of Subversion in
MirPorts is still 1.5. I tried to remedy the situation a few days ago
and committed subversion-1.6.6-0 into a branch a few days ago. It is
not yet in the trunk because it
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has some nasty bugs. For example this
gem:
% perl -MSVN::Core -e 1
Bus error
This, of course, makes svk unusable, as it is written in Perl using
the SVN perl bindings. svk is my way of making Subversion bearable,
with easy replication, offline commits, and more.
I think I found the reason now: The SVN people managed to screw up
the Perl module build so that the modules link against stuff in
/usr/lib instead of $PREFIX. Incidentally, Darwin includes
svn-1.4.4 in the base system. Sigh.
Wow, it seems that I have not written anything here in the last four
months. Between my thesis and Real Life(TM), there is just not enough
time for everything.
One more thing though: I have been attending a course on "Scientific
Writing" at the Université de Haute Alsace, with excellent hints
on article styles, writing readable scientific prose, and more. I can
recommend such a course to every scientist, but also to all those who
regularly publish things—including articles in CS journals, Free
software project posters or announcements. There are also some
excellent articles on how not to write. I especially recommend
Martin W. Gregory, The infectiousness of pompous prose, Nature
360 11–12 (1992). Unfortunately, you will need a
subscription to read it. [Less]
Posted
24 days
ago
by
t...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer tg)
The GRUB2 「memtest86+」 bootmenu option in both 「wtf ist hallowe’en」
and Grml “Hello-Wien” does not work as-is (note that Grml uses ISOLINUX,
unless you either select GRUB2 from the boot menu or dd(1) it onto a USB
stick
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, CF/SD card, etc. for manifold-boot) because nobody told the Grml
team that it must now be booted with 「linux16」 ipv 「linux」 – fix is
to type ‘e’ to edit the entry, move right, type the “16” and hit ^X to
boot. Just great… I’ve updated the
article accordingly.
We
are on Sümlink. Both
of us. Sweet. Remember that this could’ve been MirOS #11-RELEASE,
and should be treated by everyone except us as such ☺
On the bonus side, I’ve tested the netboot.me 17001 boot, as
well as the ISO (both file – in qemu – and CD-R on real hardware) on a
SPARCstation 20, Setup (i386) on a VIA C7, grml and Live (i386) on an
IBM X40 and in qemu… so I’d say it works. Oh, and memtest86+ on X40.
Netboot instructions: boot, e.g. via “qemu -m 256 -fda netbootme.dsk”,
do not hit Ctrl-B, but hit the Anykey when it asks, “boot a configuration
directly”, type 17001 and hit Enter; wait for the “boot> ” boot(8/i386)
prompt, type “b bsd.rd” and hit Return. Voilà! (Or, select MirOS bsd4me,
which loads a memdisk-ISO, either via the number 2038 or via “Live OSes”
→ BSD → “MirOS bsd4me current” and just press Enter on the prompt. The gPXE image can be
dd(1)d onto a floppy disc.
Benny finally made ports/print/ttftot42 – thanks! [Less]
Posted
25 days
ago
by
t...@mirbsd.org (MirOS Developer tg)
TPB has never been a viable tracker for us… h33t lost my login data…
I hope Scarywater still holds up, we’ll be adding Openbittorrent to
the mix… oh yikes, Demonoid is down. How great… NOT!
At least I finally managed to
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release things in time, and during the
night, both ISO and CVS tarball, forming the torrent, will be available
to the general public. I also already know of some interested parties,
from remote areas like Romania and Mauritius.
wtf ist hallowe’en
The explanation
is on the front page, of course. This link is for the benefit of RSS or
aggregator (like Plänet Sümlink)
readers.
The files will take some time until they are up. I do have an
ADSL internet connection only and they’re huge. [Less]
