Hackers in need of hardware

Contributed by weerd on Wed Jan 27 22:16:27 2010 (GMT) from the mips-r-us dept. Bret Lambert (blambert@), your friendly OpenBSD hacker in Norway, writes in about some hardware requests that have been added to want.html recently. The requests focus on (for now) unsupported or partially supported hardware that is under active development. Machines like the Lemote Yeelong, more SGI hardware and USB infrared dongles are being asked for and Bret asked some of his fellow developers why they requested this gear. Please read on for their replies. Read more...

Call for testing: pcc and the OpenBSD kernel

Contributed by weerd on Tue Dec 29 06:48:31 2009 (GMT) from the 32-more-bits dept. Michael Dexter from BSD Fund writes in with an update on pcc developments: Anders Magnusson (ragge@) reports that pcc can now build a bootable OpenBSD -current x86 kernel and that amd64 support is coming soon. Your testing using a fresh snapshot is greatly appreciated. Please report any bugs in the pcc bug database and be as precise as possible. Code samples are welcome. We'd like to thank Jonathan Gray (jsg@) for finding many code-generation bugs that were revealed by the kernel and also the dozen donors who contributed a total of over $750 to this effort this month, bringing us less than $3,000 from our goal. This is great news for software projects in general, as it is another step to try to diminish the GCC monoculture and for OpenBSD specifically as this marks the first architecture kernel that can be compiled with this compiler with hopefully many more to come.

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ospf6d -- Going Crazy with IPv6

Contributed by weerd on Thu Dec 24 16:00:51 2009 (GMT) from the routing-with-larger-addresses dept. Claudio Jeker (claudio@), our favourite network hacker from Zürich, Switzerland, writes in with a story about his work on ospf6d: A few days ago I decided it was time to enable ldpd(8) and ospf6d(8) in the builds since without additional attention they will never get finished. ldpd still needs a kernel with option MPLS enabled to be usable but this does not really matter here. This is about ospf6d and what drives me crazy about IPv6. Check out the rest of Claudio's adventures in IPv6 land below. Read more...

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Tunnelling out of corporate networks (Part 4)

Contributed by mtu on Tue Dec 15 12:04:02 2009 (GMT) from the the-end-is-near dept. Tunnelling out of corporate networks - logs, collection and analysis I haven't heard too many people say good things about log analysis or monitoring but in reality it can be really simple and effective. More importantly, if you take the necessary steps to reduce your network to exposure to malware, log monitoring becomes really easy and fun. Read on to find out more about how we collect and analyse logs: Read more...

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BSDTalk #180 - OpenBSD Enthusiast Girish Venkatachalam

Contributed by vram0 on Tue Dec 8 21:26:55 2009 (GMT) from the developing-developing-nations-with-OpenBSD dept. Regarding episode #180 of Will Backman's BSDTalk series, Luke Seubert writes in: BSDTalk #180 features an interview with Girish Venkatachalam from Chennai, in the Tamil Nadu state of India. Through his interest in cryptography, Girish first tried OpenBSD in 2003, and has been using it consistently for the past four years. Tasked by his employer to develop IPSec for a router, he examined Linux and FreeBSD, but did not care for the quality of their code. Girish then reviewed the IPSec code in OpenBSD, and used it in the router project thanks to its clean, elegant style and technical excellence, as well as its license. He also found the minimalism and simplicity of the code particularly key, as it was better suited to less-powerful hardware. Girish contributes to the community in several ways. He actively maintains twenty ports at present (such as randtype, multimux, and others), and occasionally submits code. His first ever free software code submission was a three line patch fixing a memory leak in OpenBSD's IPSec implementation. Girish has written a variety of articles, and makes presentations to local Linux and free software groups about OpenBSD. Through such advocacy, he hopes to see more developers from India contribute code to the project. He also runs the LiveUSB-OpenBSD project, which offers various bootable USB images. In addition to these efforts, Girish earns a living through his company which sells OpenBSD-based hardware to local clients in India. Another one of his company's offerings is a live CD called SpamCheetah, which uses spamd, pf, and other tools to protect mail servers from spam. File info: 25 min, 12MB. Available in mp3 or Ogg Vorbis formats.

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AsiaBSDCon 2010 - Call for Papers

Contributed by jason on Mon Dec 7 13:42:03 2009 (GMT) from the need-for-information dept. [AsiaBSDCon 2010]: March 11-14, 2010, Tokyo - Call for Papers The AsiaBSDCon 2010 Program Committee is happy to announce a Call for Papers. "The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is a technical conference and aims to collect the best technical papers and presentations available to ensure that the latest developments in our open source community are shared with the widest possible audience." Read on to find out why it's a great conference to attend: Read more...

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[h2k9]: Hardware Hackathon Summary

Contributed by jason on Fri Dec 4 18:59:48 2009 (GMT) from the suspending-disbelief-and-laptops dept. Here is the story about h2k9 (the 2009 Hardware Hackathon) and some of the results of that week. Pedro Almeida tells the story about how the h2k9 came to be and how it went down. Since 2006, I've been running the logistics for the hardware hackathons. h2k6 was a bit stressful for me since I didn't know how these kind of events used to work, and I didn't want anything to go on the wrong direction. At the time, some developers help was crucial to make the right choices. I want to thank the Physics Department of the University of Coimbra, particularly the Computational Physics Center and to the Advanced Computation Laboratory, who gently have hosted us since h2k6. Please read on for the rest of the story: Read more...

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Tunnelling out of corporate networks (Part 3)

Contributed by mtu on Thu Nov 12 04:08:37 2009 (GMT) from the smaller-is-better dept. Tunnelling out of corporate networks - Our quest for a solution We were on a quest for a security solution that would prevent anything bad and allow all the good. It's a problem that almost everyone in IT security has to struggle with. Get it wrong on either end and you risk compromise or the wrath from users complaining that you are inhibiting their work because of all this security stuff. Read on to find out more about our battle between the good and the bad: Read more...

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French radio show about the recent OpenBSD kernel bug

Contributed by maxime on Mon Nov 9 23:20:46 2009 (GMT) from the toujours-les-grenouilles dept. Clément Lecigne, who found the recent getsockopt() bug, was interviewed in the Random radio show. The OpenBSD 4.0 song (Humppa Negala) was also broadcasted. Note that the OpenBSD 4.6 release was announced in the previous show (which was actually the first), with the OpenBSD 4.6 song (Planet of the users). File info: 59 min, 54.9 MB. Download it. French only. File info: 59 min, 54.9 MB. Faster mirror. French only.

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