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AMD doubles down on existing Opteron server sockets

J65nko — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:40:43 GMT

From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02...server_roadmap

Quote:

As El Reg anticipated earlier this week, the new upper management at AMD has come to its senses and figured out that moving to a new core and two new sockets for its Opteron line in 2012 was not a particularly good idea for its own finances, or those of the server makers who it wants to peddle Opteron-based iron. And so, that plan has been scrapped.

Instead, AMD is going to field new 32 nanometer processors based on the forthcoming "Piledriver" core design and jam them into the same G34 and C32 sockets, meaning that HP, Dell, Super Micro, IBM, Acer, and a handful of other box makers will not have to engineer new motherboards and systems.

Euro watchdog asks Google to HALT privacy tweak

J65nko — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:27:09 GMT

From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02..._party_letter/

Quote:

A European Union watchdog has written to Google boss Larry Page asking him to explain how personal data will be safeguarded when the search giant puts its revised privacy policy into effect on 1 March.

European Commissioner Viviane Reding, who last week tabled her proposed overhaul of the EU's 1995 Data Protection law, welcomed the missive sent by privacy warriors, the Article 29 Working Party.

Question about maintaining jailed systems

unixjingleman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:02:58 GMT

erm really sorry i just wanted to know whether you had to rebuild a jailed system on each upgrade of said system. The answer is in the handbook. Sorry if i've wasted anyones time.
btw I heard somwhere that virtual jailed systems should NOT be started from rc on the host system. Is this still true?. In my virtual system there will be a couple of daemons running. Would it be better to start the jailed system by hand, once the host has booted, in this case? Or is this a legacy issue?
thankx

Firefox long term support

shep — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:40:32 GMT

Firefox ExtendedSupport:Proposal

I had hopes that a long term support version would be available for BSD desktop users, it looks like the binaries will be Linux, OS/X and Windows specific and the source will still have to be cranked out by a maintainer.

I might also be doable by a user modified port. One could update the Mozillalongterm version in ports by copying the port and editing the version along with the checksums and crank out your own update. I wonder if the port maintainers will look at this?

Misc. BSD/UNIX BusyBox clone with a BSD license?

comet--berkeley — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:16:42 GMT

Controversy around Busybox alternative:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...e-1426119.html

Quote:

A proposal to create a non-GPL licensed, open source alternative to the Busybox program has sparked controversy. An allegation was made by Matthew Garrett that the replacement's development is designed to enable GPL violations...

http://www.elinux.org/Busybox_replacement_project

Security Critical PHP vulnerability being fixed

J65nko — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:26:11 GMT

From http://h-online.com/-1427316

Quote:

The PHP developers are working to fix a critical security vulnerability in PHP that they introduced with a recent security patch. The current stable release is affected; however, it is not yet clear whether the questionable patch was also applied to older versions.

Security Break-ins at domain registrar VeriSign in 2010

J65nko — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:22:18 GMT

From http://h-online.com/-1427493

Quote:

Reuters reports that VeriSign notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of several intrusions into its IT systems in 2010. However, VeriSign's report states that the company's executives "do not believe these attacks breached the servers that support our Domain Name System network."

Mozilla's first Extended Support Release arrives

J65nko — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:18:55 GMT

From http://h-online.com/-1426690

Quote:

As expected, Mozilla has released the first Extended Support Release of Firefox, based on Firefox 10, for organisations. The release is the culmination of what began as complaints from the enterprise community that the rapid release schedule of Firefox was leaving them unable to qualify Firefox for use within their organisations.

Seagate slam-dunks flood-hit rivals with triple-profit Q2

J65nko — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:15:00 GMT

From http://www.channelregister.co.uk/201...ate_q2_fy2012/

Quote:

Ships 47 million disk drives as others sink

Seagate, the world's numero uno disk drive manufacturer, notched up a brilliant second 2012 quarter with revenues and profits soaring up above flood-diminished rival WD.

Revenues were $3.2bn and net income of $563m, which compares to $2.7bn revenue and $150m net income in the year-ago quarter. A 19 per cent increase in revenues, and profits over triple – 3.75 times as much, to be exact – those of the same quarter last year is a heck of a jump... especially in these Thai flood-straitened disk drive times. We guess scarcity of supply and drive price increases account for some of this.

Security Mozilla closes critical holes in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey

J65nko — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:01:13 GMT

From http://h-online.com/-1426048

Quote:

Following the release of new versions of its open source Firefox web browser, Thunderbird email client and SeaMonkey suite, Mozilla has detailed the security fixes included in each of the updates. According to the project's Security Center page for Firefox, version 10.0 closes a total of 8 security holes in the browser, 5 of which are rated as "Critical" by Mozilla.

BigCouch 0.4 moved in

J65nko — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:58:28 GMT

From http://h-online.com/-1425544

Quote:

BigCouch, the highly available, fault-tolerant, clustered version of Apache's CouchDB NoSQL JSON document database, has been updated to version 0.4.
[snip]
Other changes in 0.4 include the addition of native SSL support and FreeBSD support.

Big problems 4.9->5.0 with softRAID

delorean — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:22:09 GMT

Hi,

Im trying to make an upgrade to 4.9 -> 5.0 with softraid root filesystem and im having big problems.Anybody know how to do it ?¿?

Trying the upgrade with the CDrom, the bsd.rd loaded it hasn´t softraid support so it doesn´t detect the root Raid filesystem :( and it´s impossible to make the upgrade.

Im trying to compile the bsd kernel of 5.0 with softraid in other machine and then using this compiled kernel in the upgrade process following these steps, but im not sure if this will work.(obviously it´s not for an 3.7 version)

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If we did this, we'd run into trouble when we reboot (#3), because the generic kernel does not include RAID support. I'm assuming that you are running your OpenBSD 3.6 RAID system... so here's what we need to do:
1. Follow the OpenBSD upgrade guide and STOP when you "Place install files in a "good" location."
2. Download the OpenBSD 3.7 kernel source
3. Perform the actions in part 2 ("Recompile RAID Into the Kernel") section 4 ("Configuiring the kernel") and 5 ("Compiling the kernel"). This will install the 3.7 kernel. Note: you will not need to perform the "Clean up after yourself" step... since we're not using /mnt to juggle space.
4. reboot on your RAID'ed 3.7 kernel
5. Continue following the OpenBSD upgrade guide with the step "Install new /etc/firmware files"

This will get your main RAID system onto OpenBSD 3.7, however your initial boot partitions (/dev/wd0a and /dev/wd1a) will still be running OpenBSD 3.6. If you are lazy, you can leave them alone. If you want to upgrade them, you can do the following:
1. mount the /dev/wd0a partition (foo# mount /dev/wd0a /mnt)
2. copy the 3.7 RAID kernel to the mounted partition (foo# cp -R /bsd/* /mnt/bsd/)
3. Follow the OpenBSD upgrade guide (skip the "Reboot on the new kernel" step. For step "Install new userland applications", change "cd /" to "cd /mnt")
4. unmount /dev/wd0a and repeat with /dev/wd1a
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Anybody could help me ?? Thanks !!

gettext-dependent and gmake-dependent ports won't compile on openbsd 5.1 current

daemonfowl — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:41:50 GMT

Hi everyNerd !

Today I installed OpenBSD 5.1 current on a spare disk .. without problems .. until I started compiling some ports ..

it seems that gettext-dependent and gmake-dependent ports won't compile ..
I ftped to distfiles directory on the official website and found many gettext versions (tar.gz amd .gem) ..

Any suggestions ?
Thank you in advance !

Security Security hole in Sudo's debug option closed

J65nko — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:24:45 GMT

From http://h-online.com/-1425163

Quote:

A hole in the sudo command's debug options has been fixed by the developers. The problem, discovered by joernchen of phenoelit, affects sudo versions 1.8.0 to 1.8.3p1. The sudo command is used extensively by Linux distributions, Mac OS X and other Unix operating systems to allow users to execute commands with super user privileges without logging in as root, and is often heavily relied upon. The security hole appeared in version 1.8.0 when a new simple debugging option was added.