OpenBSD Hackathon Summary

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

[Ayanami Rei]

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.

Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:The best part of the hack-a-thon

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, the coolest thing was getting BIG LOCK implemented, which is the first step toward working SMP under OpenBSD :-) Yay!

And now it's an article on slashdot.

[Ayanami Rei]

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.