The OpenBSD team has released 4 updates for OpenBSD 3.9:

• 005: potential denial of service problem has been found in sendmail
• 006: off-by-one error in dhcpd(8) — it is possible to cause dhcpd(8) to exit (CVE-2006-3122)
• 007: possible to cause kernel panic when more than the default number of sempahores have been allocated
• 008: problem in isakmpd(8) caused IPsec to run partly without replay protection

I’ve uploaded more binpatches. Additionally, I created an OpenBSD Binpatches page to list all of the binpatches I’m maintaining instead of putting them in individual posts.

You may have noticed… I’m using a new Wordpress theme. I designed this one myself. I’m no artist by a long shot. Plus, I was hoping to cut down on the graphics and “flash”. I wanted to thank Tech Wench (not that she reads my site) for borrowing Blue Curves for a while. It was almost what I was looking for. I’m not exactly sure how “008″ will end up, but this is more in line with the vision I had when I was looking for themes and first laid my eyes on Wench’s Blue Curves.

Now… “008″. Or “Double Oh Eight”. In HTML color code, “#008″ or “#000080″ is the blue that you see in the navigation bar on the left. It’s also the color of the unvisited links you see througout the site. It’s been a common color used in my websites for years. I thought it was a good name. :)
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I actually saw this movie a few weeks ago and never posted about it. I did like the first Pirates of the Carribean and was looking forward to Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest.

I had heard a lot of hype about the movie and many criticisms about the decision to open Superman Returns the weekend before PotC2. If it was better than Superman, then I had to see it. I saw Superman twice. And loved it both times.
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Prior to seeing Little Miss Sunshine tonight, I had only spoken to three people who had seen it. All three said it was a “must see” and that it was really good. Normally I take these things with a grain of salt but two of these people are among those whose opinions I think I trust (at least in terms of spending $9 on a movie). The third was our waitress for dinner right before going to the theater.

All I have to say is: they weren’t joking.
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I was able to get my hands on a currently unused Dell Latitude D505 laptop at work. I installed Ubuntu 6.06 on it. I continue to be impressed.

Most everything just works. You press the power key and you’re prompted with a menu with options to Restart, Lock the screen, Switch Users, Logoff, Power Down, Hibernate or Suspend. You close the lid, plugged in, and the screen blanks & locks. You close the lid on battery and it automatically suspends. You want to modify the volume: Fn+PageUp/Down (just like Windows). You go on battery & a new icon appears with the amount of estimated battery time left. You move your finger up and down across the right side of the trackpad and windows scroll. I did have to work hard to make the wireless card work. It also took some effort to watch DVD movies & Youtube videos. Keep reading for more on that.

If I didn’t already have a Mac, I’d take back my Inspiron 8600 from my wife and install Ubuntu on it.
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