OpenBSD Hackathon Summary

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Posted by michael on Friday May 23, 2003 @02:21AM from the while-you-were-out dept.

Dan writes "Daniel Hartmeier says that the OpenBSD hackathon is over and provides a summary of the pf related work that was done in Calgary this year. Accomplishments include packet tagging, TCP scrubbing and normalization extentions, SYN proxy, adaptive timeouts and minor bug fixes. Henning Brauer points out that the binary format of pf logs has changed to log additional items."

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The best part of the hack-a-thon by Ayanami+Rei · 2003-05-23 02:25 · Score: 3, Interesting

did anyone see that link down near the bottom of the linked thread... Playing MP3s using lp?

Off all the things that could come out of the Hack-A-Thon, that one has to be the most evil hack of all. Now the question is, do they get the printer to somehow send the mp3 to a device capable of playing it with postscript or do they use a filter to detect and play the MP3, specifying /dev/audio as the printer device (for locking purposes)... either way... hehehe.

And first post.

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1. Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-23 02:49 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Just read http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105 366767922678&w=2 on how to do lpr + mp3.
  
  This is nothing new; they used it the previous year as well.
  
  There are even people who use lpr to queue their build system: http://www.deadly.org/commentShow.php3?sid=2003052 2084624&pid=75
2. Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-23 10:04 · Score: 0
  
  It's spelled Eulogy, dimwit.
3. Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-23 10:31 · Score: 0
  
  One entry found for elegy.
  
  Main Entry: elegy
  Pronunciation: 'e-l&-jE
  Function: noun
  Inflected Form(s): plural -gies
  Etymology: Latin elegia poem in elegiac couplets, from Greek elegeia, elegeion, from elegos song of mourning
  Date: 1501
  
  1 : a poem in elegiac couplets
  
  2 a : a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is dead b : something (as a speech) resembling such a song or poem
  
  3 a : a pensive or reflective poem that is usually nostalgic or melancholy b : a short pensive musical composition
4. Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon by dolmant_php · 2003-05-23 11:49 · Score: 1
  
  If you read the story on deadly they describe how to do this. It's quite simple, actually.
5. Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-23 17:47 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  Actually, the coolest thing was getting BIG LOCK implemented, which is the first step toward working SMP under OpenBSD :-) Yay!
6. Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon by PapaZit · 2003-05-26 10:14 · Score: 1
  
  You need to read slashdot more often.
  Maybe you could convince them to post the above link as a story. They'd never notice.
  
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7. Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon by PapaZit · 2003-05-26 10:17 · Score: 1
  
  I'm a moron. This discussion happened before the story I mentioned was posted.
  
  Guess I need to read slashdot more often...
  
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8. Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-05 03:34 · Score: 0
  
  It is official; Netcraft is confirming: *BSD is dying
  
  One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
  
  You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
  
  FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
  
  Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
  
  OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
  
  Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
  
  All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
  
  Fact: *BSD is dying
Re:How stable? by jo42 · 2003-05-23 03:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Stay with 4.8 until at least 5.2 (or 5.3). 4.8 is running very well for us as firewall, bug tracking, cvs server, etc.
Packet tagging? by Smidge204 · 2003-05-23 03:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Do you suppose that could become a functional implementation of the "Evil Bit"?

*bum bum buummmmmmm*
=Smidge=
Re:How stable? by O · 2003-05-23 11:11 · Score: 1

I'm using 5.0 to post this, and, yeah, it's a little flaky. I haven't been able to make world for nearly a month now.

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Re:I see dead people by williewang · 2003-05-23 13:45 · Score: 1, Funny

Paraphrasing from American President Lyndon Johnson...Saying "BSD is dead" is like pissing with a bad case of the clap--you think it's pretty hot, but nobody else does.
Re:How stable? by 1s44c · 2003-05-24 02:07 · Score: 2, Funny

Your using OpenBSD 5.0?

How on earth did you manage you install FreeBSD thinking it was OpenBSD??
And now it's an article on slashdot. by Ayanami+Rei · 2003-05-24 06:44 · Score: 3, Interesting

What's useful is the post near the end of the comments which explains how you can set up CUPS to do the same thing. The trick is using mplayer (I can think of better tools though) as a printer transport. Nice screenshots of the CUPS queue webpage with the songs sitting in it.

I'm wondering if you can get CUPS to alter the "doucment name" displayed in the queue, using mpgtools to fetch song info or something.

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Re:How stable? by O · 2003-05-24 08:46 · Score: 1, Funny

That was a response to the parent post asking how stable FreeBSD 5.0 was, you stupid cunt.

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Re:How stable? by RdsArts · 2003-05-24 16:29 · Score: 1

You never know. He could be from the future....

But now you know too much.
Re:How stable? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-05 03:37 · Score: 0

It is official; Netcraft is confirming: *BSD is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

Fact: *BSD is dying