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devio.us - The Free OpenBSD Shell Provider This is a service that caught my interest. At first, I thought to myself, "why would I want a shell account on a box that I don't control?" My problem is that I have too many shell accounts. So what can be gained by having another shell account and what is so special about this free shell account provider?

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There were 22 new ports for the week of April 12 to April 18:

• archivers:
  • libtar
• cad:
  • geda-gaf
• databases:
  • hs-HDBC
  • hs-HDBC-sqlite3
• devel:
  • hs-readline
  • p5-Data-ICal-TimeZone
  • p5-DateTime-Event-Recurrence
  • p5-DateTime-Event-ICal
  • p5-DateTime-Format-ICal
  • hs-ghc-paths
  • hs-hslogger
  • hs-MissingH
  • hs-ConfigFile
  • hs-convertible
  • p5-Probe-Perl
• geo:
  • tangogps
• graphics:
  • hs-GLUT
• multimedia:
  • gstreamer-0.10/mm
• palm:
  • palm2ical
• sysutils:
  • shmux
• www:
  • mollify
• x11:
  • gnome/system-monitor

Some ports had updates that users should be aware of; 5 ports were

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I noticed a very important post by David Gwynne (dlg@) on the misc@ mailing list but unfortunately, his message went without any response at all.

ive recently made a start on better supporting disks in openbsd that present 512 byte logical sectors, but actually use 4096 byte physical sectors on the platter. the best examples of these are the western

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n2k10: Network hackathon
Jan 9 - 15, 2010
Melbourne, Australia
17 developers

n2k10 was held at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) in Melbourne, Australia. It was mid-Summer in Melbourne and it was hot --one day was over 45C, which was quite a change for the Europeans who came from -10C a few days before. The organization of the

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[AsiaBSDCon 2010]: March 11-14, 2010, Tokyo, Japan - Summary As in years past, the AsiaBSDCon conference was amazing. The quality of papers, presentations and speakers just gets better every year. I want to give some colour to the videos and slides that have already been posted by J.C. Roberts. The presentations and papers on-line are nice but they could use some commentary.

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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:13:55 -0500 Ron McDowell  wrote:

> Hi J.C., anytime anyone has posted to misc@ asking about how to build
> a bootable install image on a USB stick, there is much vitriol and
> little information, so I'm asking privately.
> 
> I've got a DOS formatted 2GB USB stick seen as sd0, and
> 
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The papers for the OpenBSD portions of AsiaBSDCon 2010 are available in the usual place, namely here.

• Epitome2, dedup for the masses
  By Marco Peereboom (marco@)
  Presentation about epitome2 that accompanies this paper.
  
  
• SMP Implementation for OpenBSD/sgi
  By Takuya Asada (syuu@)
  Presentation about SMP implementation for sgi port that accompanies this paper.
  
  
• sndio - OpenBSD audio and

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When you see a CVS commit message like this:

List:           openbsd-cvs
Subject:        CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: www
From:           Marc Espie (espie () cvs ! openbsd ! org)
Date:           2010-03-08 20:43:18
Message-ID:     201003082043.o28KhIWM019271 () cvs ! openbsd ! org
Module name:    www
Modified files: 47.html
Log message:
pkg_* changed by >8000 lines. This qualifies as "major" changes in my book.

You really ought

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Tunnelling out of corporate networks - the end of our quest In the previous articles, you have read about employees and malware tunnelling out of corporate networks. I explained how this is done and why it is so easy to do. You were shown some concepts that may help you to detect and defend against such threats and I've eluded to a solution that would do away with this headache altogether. I hope that you have enjoyed this series of articles and thanks to all who have commented.

Read on to find out our solution in the fight against malware and Rich Internet Applications:

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