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Re:The Origin of Cisco Systems on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:02PM (#44818371)

AmigaOS had preemptive multitasking.

Doom at 30: what it means, by the people who made it

Posted by mben on Sunday December 10, 2023 @03:31AM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/dec/08/doom-at-30-what-it-means-by-the-people-who-made-it

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Re:AtariAge and Atari on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:35PM (#37425933)

Jay Miner was responsible for Atari 8 bit home computers and later for the Amiga.

“We hope to make PF default (and only firewall) in Solaris 12”

Posted by mben on Monday April 06, 2015 @05:33AM
from the marc.info dept.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=142822852613581&w=2

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Re:List of April Fools' Day Announcements on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:07AM (#9302484)

Check this bootstrap theme: https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

Monitoring pf logs with Gource

Posted by mben on Monday March 23, 2015 @10:34AM
from the echothrust.com dept.

http://www.echothrust.com/blogs/monitoring-pf-logs-gource

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Using OpenBGPD to distribute pf table updates to your servers

Posted by mben on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @01:05PM
from the echothrust.com dept.

http://www.echothrust.com/blogs/using-openbgpd-distribute-pf-table-updates-your-servers

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Using OpenBSD and vxlan to overlay remote lans

Posted by mben on Thursday February 19, 2015 @11:52AM
from the echothrust.com dept.

http://www.echothrust.com/blogs/using-openbsd-and-vxlan-overlay-remote-lans

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Using OpenBSD's divert(4) to reduce attacks

Posted by mben on Thursday February 12, 2015 @07:58AM
from the daemonforums.org dept.

http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=8846

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Re:Dissecting OpenBSD's divert(4) on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @06:04AM (#8843787)

Check pf-diverters [1]. We are using them in our openbsd firewalls in order to block unwanted connections.

[1] https://github.com/echothrust/pf-diverters

Re:Ask HN: Do you run your own mail server? If yes, how? on Saturday July 05, 2014 @11:08AM (#7992034)

Yes, iRedMail (http://www.iredmail.org/) on Digital Ocean. The $10/mo VM is enough for a low traffic mail server.

Re:Boring SSL on Saturday June 21, 2014 @01:42AM (#7924298)

Theo's opinion about BoringSSL and LibreSSL portability: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/37174

OpenBSD removed Apache from base

Posted by mben on Friday March 14, 2014 @03:26AM
from the openbsd.org dept.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20140313b

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Show HN: Echofish – log monitoring made easy

Posted by mben on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @11:03AM
from the show-hn dept.

http://echothrust.github.io/echofish/

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OpenBSD Foundation: Call for support to continue Radeon KMS work

Posted by mben on Sunday June 02, 2013 @03:04PM
from the undeadly.org dept.

http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130602183200

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How MySQL Stole A Chunk Of Oracle's Marketshare

Posted by mben on Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:46AM
from the forbes.com dept.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngreathouse/2013/02/19/how-this-open-source-company-stole-oracles-marketshare/

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OpenBSD – A Real Powerhouse

Posted by mben on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @01:57PM
from the terminalprompt.com dept.

http://terminalprompt.com/2013/02/12/openbsd-a-real-powerhouse/

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Re:BSDs Struggle With Open-Source Graphics Drivers on Friday February 08, 2013 @01:39PM (#5189389)

NetBSD has hired a developer to port Linux DRM to NetBSD with support for KMS and GEM: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-x11/2013/02/06/msg001229.h...

Re:OpenBSD removes Rails from the ports tree on Sunday February 03, 2013 @03:42AM (#5159110)

PFSense is using an older and patched version of OpenBSD PF and as you said all the configuration is done using the gui. PF configuration in OpenBSD is very simple using the cli and following the official FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html

OpenBSD removes Rails from the ports tree

Posted by mben on Saturday February 02, 2013 @09:35AM
from the marc.info dept.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=135794600931567&w=2

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Re:Devops/Sysadmin Cheatsheet on Friday January 11, 2013 @12:43PM (#5043844)

Check also the Unix Toolbox: http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml I've got a copy of the pdf in my dropbox just in case.