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1.1 deraadt 17: <p>
1.3 ian 18: <h2><font color="#e00000">Release Songs</font></h2><hr>
1.100 deraadt 19: <p>
20:
21: Every 6 months the OpenBSD project has the pleasure to release
22: software on an official CDROM set, with artwork and a matching song.
23: Ty Semaka (our artist) and Theo borrow and mutate some theme (from a
1.108 deraadt 24: classical setting, a movie, or some genre) into the fishy world of
25: Puffy, to describe some event or controversy the project went through
26: over the previous six months. To match the art released with the CD,
27: Ty and his friend Jonathan Lewis build the song and bring in
28: additional hired musicians from around Calgary. Theo then gets the
29: pleasure (and responsibility) to write a commentary explaining it all.
1.1 deraadt 30:
1.20 deraadt 31: <p>
1.71 deraadt 32: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
33: <tr>
1.72 deraadt 34: <td valign="top" width="45%">
1.124 deraadt 35: <a href="#50">5.0: "What Me Worry?"<br>
1.123 deraadt 36: <a href="#49">4.9: "The Answer"<br>
1.120 deraadt 37: <a href="#48">4.8: "El Puffiachi"<br>
1.119 deraadt 38: <a href="#47">4.7: "I'm still here"<br>
1.116 deraadt 39: <a href="#46">4.6: "Planet of the Users"<br>
1.108 deraadt 40: <a href="#45">4.5: "Games"<br>
1.104 deraadt 41: <a href="#44">4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"<br>
1.95 deraadt 42: <a href="#43">4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"<br>
1.90 deraadt 43: <a href="#42">4.2: "100001 1010101"<br>
1.89 deraadt 44: <a href="#41">4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"<br>
45: <a href="#40">4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a> and
46: <a href="#audio_extra">"OpenVOX" (extra track)</a><br>
1.72 deraadt 47: <a href="#39">3.9: "Blob!"</a><br>
48: <a href="#38">3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a><br>
49: <a href="#37">3.7: "The Wizard of OS"</a><br>
50: <a href="#36">3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a><br>
51: <a href="#35">3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a><br>
1.108 deraadt 52: </td><td valign="top" width="1%">
53: <br>
54: </td><td valign="top" width="54%">
1.124 deraadt 55: <a href="#34">3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a><br>
1.119 deraadt 56: <a href="#33">3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a><br>
1.116 deraadt 57: <a href="#32">3.2: "Goldflipper"</a><br>
1.72 deraadt 58: <a href="#31">3.1: "Systemagic"</a><br>
59: <a href="#30">3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a><br>
1.71 deraadt 60: <br>
1.113 deraadt 61: <a href="#audio_extra">
1.72 deraadt 62: <img align="left" height=158 width=158 hspace="5" vspace="0" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
1.71 deraadt 63: </a>
64: The 3.0 - 4.0 songs are available on an Audio CD celebrating
65: 10 years of OpenBSD releases.
66: <br>
67: <br>
1.76 deraadt 68: An <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
69: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") is included which details
70: the process of making the art and music each release.
1.71 deraadt 71: <br clear=all>
72: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
1.72 deraadt 73: Order an Audio CDROM from our International site</a><br>
1.71 deraadt 74: </td></tr></table>
1.20 deraadt 75: <p>
1.104 deraadt 76:
77: <hr>
1.124 deraadt 78: <a name=50></a>
79: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="50.html">
80: 5.0: "What Me Worry?"</a></font></h2>
81: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
82: <tr>
83: <td valign="top" width="30%">
84: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 5.0 or other items]</a><br>
85: OpenBSD 5.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
86: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
87: <br>
88: 3:03 minutes
89: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song50.mp3">(MP3 5.6MB)</a>
90: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song50.ogg">(OGG 4.0MB)</a><br>
91: <br>
92: <a href="images/MAD.jpg">
93: <img width=227 height=343 alt="MAD" src="images/MAD.jpg"></a>
94: <br>
95: <br>
96: <em>
97: Ty Semaka has been drawing<br>
98: Puffy-inspired parody artwork<br>
99: for us for many releases.<br>
100: This time I asked him to do some<br>
101: art that is a meta-parody:<br>
102: <br>
103: A Puffy-inspired parody of<br>
104: a parody magazine!<br>
105: <br>
106: </em>
107: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
108: <br>
109: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
110: <br>
111: What? Me Worry?<br>
112: Not with this stuff<br>
113: Nobody gettin' in<br>
114: Nobody get tough<br>
115: <br>
116: I'm a comic book kid<br>
117: Having fun in the woods<br>
118: Carving out toys<br>
119: and makin' em good<br>
120: <br>
121: Ya it's spy versus spy<br>
122: I got so many tricks<br>
123: I got undercover agents<br>
124: Even out in the sticks<br>
125: <br>
126: Threw a brick through your window<br>
127: Ya it's teenage fun<br>
128: Then I blew up a bridge<br>
129: And blocked out the sun<br>
1.125 ! sthen 130: <br>
1.124 deraadt 131: Little black flies<br>
132: on a pile of GNU<br>
133: With a Dairy Queen tip<br>
134: And Imma comin' for you<br>
135: <br>
1.125 ! sthen 136: Make fun of everybody<br>
1.124 deraadt 137: That's my thang<br>
138: Ya It's a geeks wet dream<br>
139: I give a poit! blit! spang!<br>
140: <br>
141: It's a mad mad world<br>
142: and number 5 is alive<br>
143: I gotta black submarine<br>
144: and I'm built to survive<br>
145: <br>
146: Threw a brick through your window<br>
147: Ya it's teenage fun<br>
148: Then I blew up a bridge<br>
149: And blocked out the sun<br>
150: <br>
151: Keep the source open<br>
152: Gonna get my kicks<br>
1.125 ! sthen 153: I'm 16 now<br>
1.124 deraadt 154: Ya I don't need mix<br>
155: <br>
156: Got a stack o magazines<br>
157: In my treehouse club<br>
158: Nobody gettin' up here<br>
159: Its secure ya bub<br>
160: <br>
161: Got a dime store bazooka<br>
162: And a bubble gum tank<br>
163: Got pots and pans for cookin' up<br>
164: some Open source stank<br>
165: <br>
166: Threw a brick through your window<br>
167: Ya it's teenage fun<br>
168: Then I blew up a bridge<br>
169: And blocked out the sun<br>
170: <br>
171: <br>
172: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
173: <img width=395 height=1210 src="images/50song.jpg"><br>
174: </td></tr></table>
175: <p>
176: <em>
177: Written and Arranged by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and Vocals by
178: Ty Semaka (www.tysemaka.com). Percussion and fuzzy bass guitar by Jonathan
179: Lewis. Electric guitars by Tim Williams (www.cayusemusic.com). Recorded,
180: mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (moxam@hotmail.com).
181: <br>
182: <br>
183: </em>
184:
185: <hr>
1.123 deraadt 186: <a name=49></a>
187: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="49.html">
188: 4.9: "The Answer"</a></font></h2>
189: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
190: <tr>
191: <td valign="top" width="30%">
192: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.9 or other items]</a><br>
193: OpenBSD 4.9 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
194: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
195: <br>
196: 3:43 minutes
197: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song49.mp3">(MP3 6.8MB)</a>
198: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song49.ogg">(OGG 5.7MB)</a><br>
199: <br>
200: <a href="images/Hitchhiker.jpg">
201: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Hitchhiker" src="images/Hitchhiker.jpg"></a>
202: <br>
203: <br>
204: <em>
205: This release is OpenBSD 4.9. Then why is
206: the song about 4.2? Huh?<br>
207: <br>
208: The <a href="#44">OpenBSD 4.4 release artwork</a> honoured
209: the (Berkeley) CSRG guys for their efforts with the BSD 4.4
210: release -- they fought and managed to free the code.<br>
211: <br>
212: This release the artwork is based on the stories of Douglas Adams,
213: including his favorite number -- 42. Therefore we can remember
214: the previous major achievement of CSRG - BSD 4.2.<br>
215: <br>
216: BSD 4.2 was
217: not free, but it created and integrated so many new
218: technologies that we all depend on today. Take a moment
219: to consider how many things first available in BSD 4.2 you are using
220: at this moment, to read this page -- sockets, AF_INET,
221: virtual memory, etc.<br>
222: <br>
223: Today, new releases of operating systems from well-known vendors
224: contain less new features than BSD 4.2 did.<br>
225: <br>
226: If only we could stop slacking and make a release like that!
227: <br>
228: </em>
229: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
230: <br>
231: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
232: <br>
233: How many streams must a fish swim down<br>
234: before you can call him a man?<br>
235: And how many codes must a vendor lock down<br>
236: before silicon turns to sand?<br>
237: Yes and how many times must the lawyers fly<br>
238: before they are forever banned?<br>
239: <br>
240: The answer my friend<br>
241: BSD 4.2<br>
242: The answer<br>
243: BSD 4.2<br>
244: <br>
245: How many years can a planet exist<br>
246: before it is paved by the V?<br>
247: How many years can some source code exist<br>
248: before it's allowed to be free?<br>
249: Yes and how many times can a fish turn his head<br>
250: and pretend that he just doesn't see?<br>
251: <br>
252: The answer my friend<br>
253: BSD 4.2<br>
254: The answer<br>
255: BSD 4.2<br>
256: <br>
257: How many times must we fight for the right<br>
258: to share what is already ours?<br>
259: Yes and how many times must we hitch while we hike<br>
260: To end up not getting far?<br>
261: And how many fish must we shove in our ear<br>
262: before we can hear every star?<br>
263: <br>
264: The answer my friend<br>
265: BSD 4.2<br>
266: The answer<br>
267: BSD 4.2<br>
268: <br>
269: And now we can travel the galaxy<br>
270: with ships that are silicon made<br>
271: And now with a towel and a laptop in hand<br>
272: our future is made in the shade<br>
273: And what did we use to build on and on<br>
274: Inside everything that we use?<br>
275: <br>
276: The answer my friend<br>
277: BSD 4.2<br>
278: The answer<br>
279: BSD 4.2<br>
280: <br>
281: <br>
282: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
283: <img width=395 height=1210 src="images/49song.jpg"><br>
284: </td></tr></table>
285: <p>
286: <em>
287: Written and Arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and Vocals by Ty Semaka
288: (www.tysemaka.com). Guitar and harmonica by Leslie Alexander
289: (www.lesliealexander.com). Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan
290: Lewis of Moxam Studios (moxam@hotmail.com).
291: <br>
292: <br>
293: </em>
294:
295: <hr>
1.120 deraadt 296: <a name=48></a>
297: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="48.html">
298: 4.8: "El Puffiachi"<br>
299: </a></font></h2>
300: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
301: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 302: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.120 deraadt 303: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.8 or other items]</a><br>
304: OpenBSD 4.8 CD2 track 2 is<br>
305: an uncompressed copy of<br>
306: this song.<br>
307: <br>
308: [Instrumental]<br>
309: <br>
310: 2:39 minutes
311: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song48.mp3">(MP3 4.4MB)</a>
312: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song48.ogg">(OGG 3.0MB)</a><br>
313: <br>
314: <a href="images/ElPuffiachi.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 315: <img width=227 height=343 alt="ElPuffiachi" src="images/ElPuffiachi.jpg"></a>
1.120 deraadt 316: <br>
317: <br>
318: <em>
319: [Sorry, no commentary]
320: <br>
321: </em>
322: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
323: <br>
324: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
325: <br>
326: <br>
327: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
328: <img width=936 height=720 src="images/48song.jpg"><br>
329: </td></tr></table>
330: <p>
331: <em>
332: Written and performed by Manuel Jara and Mauricio Moreno of 'Los Morenos'.
333: <br>
334: <br>
335: </em>
336:
337: <hr>
1.119 deraadt 338: <a name=47></a>
339: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="47.html">
340: 4.7: "I'm still here"</a></font></h2>
341: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
342: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 343: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.119 deraadt 344: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.7 or other items]</a><br>
345: OpenBSD 4.7 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
346: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
347: <br>
348: 4:39 minutes
349: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song47.mp3">(MP3 8.5MB)</a>
350: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song47.ogg">(OGG 6.3MB)</a><br>
351: <br>
352: <a href="images/Superfish.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 353: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Superfish" src="images/Superfish.jpg"></a>
1.119 deraadt 354: <br>
355: <br>
356: <em>
357: [Sorry, no commentary]
358: <br>
359: </em>
360: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
361: <br>
362: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
363: <br>
364: Back when I was twenty<br>
365: They said I wouldn't last<br>
366: All that I believed in<br>
367: Were the teachings of the past<br>
368: <br>
369: All I ever wanted<br>
370: Was to keep the world secure<br>
371: And all the criticizing<br>
372: Was something I'd endure<br>
373: <br>
374: The changes that I've been through<br>
375: And the trials along the way<br>
376: The battle isn't over<br>
377: And I'm living day by day<br>
378: <br>
379: But I'm still here<br>
380: <br>
381: Some say that I'm a hero<br>
382: But I'm just being me<br>
383: With my filter I can hide<br>
384: My true identity<br>
385: <br>
386: One day when I was flying<br>
387: Across the open skies<br>
388: I saw the bridge to freedom<br>
389: Had been weakened over time<br>
390: <br>
391: The server room was burning up<br>
392: And melting the array<br>
393: A little breath of cold air<br>
394: Was enough to save the day<br>
395: <br>
396: CHORUS:<br>
397: But I'm still here<br>
398: Better than I've ever been before<br>
399: I'm still free<br>
400: Close a window, open up a door<br>
401: I'm still me<br>
402: <br>
403: INSTRUMENTAL<br>
404: <br>
405: Now that I am older<br>
406: And I've been around so long<br>
407: The world is ever changing<br>
408: I'm still righting all the wrong<br>
409: <br>
410: CHORUS:<br>
411: <br>
412: <br>
413: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
414: <img width=395 height=1500 src="images/47song.jpg"><br>
415: </td></tr></table>
416: <p>
417: <em>
418: Written, arranged, and sung by Bob Kitella. Guitar by Tim Campbell.
419: Keyboard by Bob Kitella and Jonathan D. Lewis. Bass, additional programming,
420: mixing, and mastering by Jonathan D. Lewis.
421: <br>
422: <br>
423: </em>
424:
425: <hr>
1.116 deraadt 426: <a name=46></a>
427: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="46.html">
428: 4.6: "Planet of the Users"</a></font></h2>
429: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
430: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 431: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.116 deraadt 432: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.6 or other items]</a><br>
433: OpenBSD 4.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
434: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
435: <br>
1.117 damien 436: 2:38 minutes
1.118 deraadt 437: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song46.mp3">(MP3 4.8MB)</a>
438: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song46.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
1.116 deraadt 439: <br>
440: <a href="images/PlanetUsers.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 441: <img width=227 height=343 alt="PlanetUsers" src="images/PlanetUsers.jpg"></a>
1.116 deraadt 442: <br>
443: <br>
444: <em>
1.119 deraadt 445: [Sorry, no commentary]
1.116 deraadt 446: <br>
447: </em>
448: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
449: <br>
450: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
451: <br>
452: Welcome to the future<br>
453: One very rich man<br>
454: runs the Earth with<br>
455: one multinational<br>
456: owns your stuff<br>
457: and owns your birth<br>
458: <br>
459: Everyone is armless<br>
460: Personal robots<br>
461: Do it all for you<br>
462: Sitting on your slug head<br>
463: One channel TV<br>
464: never gonna bore you<br>
465: <br>
466: CHORUS<br>
467: Does it sound like a paradise<br>
468: or a way to die<br>
469: while alive and a loser<br>
470: I'm a man from the open past<br>
1.117 damien 471: And I'll never last<br>
1.116 deraadt 472: on the Planet of the Users<br>
473: <br>
474: Everyone is happy<br>
475: No more government<br>
476: No more media<br>
477: Only the Company<br>
478: Entertains you<br>
479: while it feeds you<br>
480: <br>
481: Soylent Green pap<br>
482: Eating your friends while<br>
483: shopping, buying<br>
484: Stupid applications<br>
485: Obsolete before you try them<br>
486: <br>
487: CHORUS<br>
488: <br>
489: Take me back<br>
490: Take me back<br>
491: Please<br>
492: Take me back<br>
493: <br>
494: Way back in my time<br>
495: Open source kept<br>
496: everyone choosing<br>
497: People knew the insides<br>
498: Of devices they were using<br>
499: <br>
500: Hackers had a doorway<br>
501: Now it's locked and<br>
502: dumbed down so much<br>
503: One button coma<br>
504: Stop the future truly outta touch<br>
505: <br>
506: CHORUS<br>
507: <br>
508: <br>
509: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
510: <img width=395 height=1778 src="images/46song.jpg"><br>
511: </td></tr></table>
512: <p>
513: <em>
514: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
515: Vocals by Duncan McDonald, bass guitar by Jonathan Lewis, guitars by
516: Russ Broom, drums by John McNeil.
517: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
518: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
519: <br>
520: <br>
521: </em>
522:
523: <hr>
1.108 deraadt 524: <a name=45></a>
525: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="45.html">
526: 4.5: "Games"</a></font></h2>
527: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
528: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 529: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.108 deraadt 530: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.5 or other items]</a><br>
531: OpenBSD 4.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
532: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
533: <br>
534: 3:29 minutes
1.118 deraadt 535: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song45.mp3">(MP3 6.4MB)</a>
536: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song45.ogg">(OGG 4.5MB)</a><br>
1.108 deraadt 537: <br>
538: <a href="images/Pufftron.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 539: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufftron" src="images/Pufftron.jpg"></a>
1.108 deraadt 540: <br>
541: <br>
542: <em>
1.119 deraadt 543: [Sorry, no commentary]
1.108 deraadt 544: <br>
545: </em>
546: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
547: <br>
548: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
549: <br>
550: I love to hate my PC<br>
551: But now it's not so easy<br>
552: Just wanna get this job done<br>
553: But these A.M.L. games are dumb<br>
554: <br>
555: You wanna know the truth?<br>
556: Intel's controlling you<br>
557: And Microsoft is too<br>
558: But this is nothing new<br>
559: <br>
560: With A.C.P.I.<br>
561: This endless mess so corporate<br>
562: Tangles and angles<br>
563: In what could be straight forward<br>
564: <br>
565: Lost connections<br>
566: Lost my mind<br>
567: It's such a waste of time<br>
568: <br>
569: CHORUS<br>
570: <br>
571: Now on the motherboard<br>
572: Where all my life is stored<br>
573: Playing with garbage there<br>
574: With rules so unfair<br>
575: <br>
576: Ruled by A.C.P.I.<br>
1.109 deraadt 577: Whose heart is so corrupted<br>
1.108 deraadt 578: Forcing us all to play<br>
579: Our progress interrupted<br>
580: <br>
581: Lost connections<br>
582: Lost my mind<br>
583: It's such a waste of time<br>
584: <br>
585: CHORUS<br>
586: <br>
587: Yes I'm a user<br>
588: And I'm not the only one<br>
589: I'm not a loser<br>
590: With help from Puffy Tron<br>
591: <br>
592: And we will find it<br>
593: The pin in all this heartache<br>
594: Map our devices<br>
595: And we know what it'll take<br>
596: <br>
597: Lost connections<br>
598: Lost my mind<br>
599: Oh Ooh Woah end of line<br>
600: <br>
601: (bridge)<br>
602: On and on<br>
603: Can we all be wrong?<br>
604: All and all<br>
605: We are one<br>
606: Clean the dream<br>
607: Gone wrong<br>
608: We are Tron<br>
609: On and on and on<br>
610: <br>
611: Instrumental CHORUS (guitar solo)<br>
612: <br>
613: Instrumental pre-chorus<br>
614: <br>
615: CHORUS<br>
616: dumb dumb dumb<br>
617: <br>
618: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
619: <img width=395 height=1778 src="images/45song.jpg"><br>
620: </td></tr></table>
621: <p>
622: <em>
623: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
624: Theo de Raadt. Synth, drum and bass programming by Jonathan Lewis,
625: guitar by Russ Broom, vocals by Jonny Sinclair.
1.112 deraadt 626: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
627: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.108 deraadt 628: <br>
629: <br>
630: </em>
631:
632: <hr>
1.104 deraadt 633: <a name=44></a>
634: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="44.html">
635: 4.4: "Trial of the BSD Knights"</a></font></h2>
636: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
637: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 638: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.104 deraadt 639: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.4 or other items]</a><br>
640: OpenBSD 4.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
641: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
642: <br>
643: 3:05 minutes
1.118 deraadt 644: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song44.mp3">(MP3 5.6MB)</a>
645: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song44.ogg">(OGG 4.4MB)</a><br>
1.104 deraadt 646: <br>
647: <a href="images/SourceWars.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 648: <img width=227 height=343 alt="SourceWars" src="images/SourceWars.jpg"></a>
1.104 deraadt 649: <br>
650: <br>
651: <em>
652: Nearly 10 years ago Kirk McKusick wrote a history of
653: the Berkeley Unix distributions for the
1.121 deraadt 654: O'Reilly book "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution".
1.104 deraadt 655: We recommend you read his story, entitled
656: <a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html">
657: "Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix
658: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable"</a>
659: first, to see how Kirk remembers how we got here.
660: Sadly, since it showed up in book form originally, this text has
661: probably not been read by enough people.
662: <br>
663: <br>
664: The USL(AT&T) vs BSDI/UCB court case settlement documents were
665: not public until recently; their disclosure has made the facts more clear.
666: But the story of how three people decided to free the BSD codebase
667: of corporate pollution -- and release it freely -- is more interesting
668: than the lawsuit which followed. Sure, a stupid lawsuit happened which
669: hindered the acceptance of the BSD code during a critical period.
670: But how did a bunch of guys go through the effort of replacing so
671: much AT&T code in the first place? After all, companies had
672: lots of really evil lawyers back then too -- were they not afraid?
673: <br>
674: <br>
675: After a decade of development, most of the AT&T code had
676: already been replaced by university researchers and their associates.
677: So Keith Bostic, Mike Karels and Kirk McKusick (the main UCB CSRG group)
678: started going through the 4.3BSD codebase to cleanse the rest.
679: Keith, in particular, built a ragtag team (in those days, USENIX
680: conferences were a gold mine for such team building) and led these
681: rebels to rewrite and replace all the Imperial AT&T code, piece by
682: piece, starting with the libraries and userland programs.
683: Anyone who helped only got credit as a Contributor -- people like
684: Chris Torek and a cast of .. hundreds more.
685: <br>
686: <br>
1.105 deraadt 687: Then Mike and Kirk purified the kernel. After a bit more careful
1.104 deraadt 688: checking, this led to the release of a clean tree called Net/2 which
689: was given to the world in June 1991 -- the largest dump of free source
690: code the world had ever received (for those days -- not modern monsters like OpenOffice).
691: <br>
692: <br>
693: Some of these ragtags formed a company (BSDi) to sell a production system
694: based on this free code base, and a year later Unix System Laboratories
695: (basically AT&T) sued BSDi and UCB.
696: Eventually AT&T lost and after a few trifling fixes (described in the
697: lawsuit documents) the codebase was free. A few newer developments
698: (and more free code) were added, and released in June 1994 as 4.4BSD-Lite.
699: Just over 14 years later OpenBSD is releasing its own 4.4 release (and for
700: a lot less than <a href=orders.html>$1000 per copy</a>).
701: <br>
702: <br>
703: The OpenBSD 4.4 release is dedicated to Keith Bostic, Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick,
704: and all of those who contributed to making Net/2 and 4.4BSD-Lite free.
705: <br>
706: </em>
707: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
708: <br>
709: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
710: <br>
711: <center>
712: <br>
713: Source Wars<br>
714: Episode IV<br>
715: Trial of the BSD Knights<br>
716: </center>
717: <br>
718: Not so very long ago<br>
719: and not so far away<br>
720: AT&T made system code<br>
721: and gave some bits away<br>
722: <br>
723: Some Berkeley geeks rebuilt it<br>
724: better, faster, more diverse<br>
725: This open thing was wonderful<br>
726: for everyone on Earth<br>
727: <br>
728: And then the roaring 90's came<br>
729: The Empire changed its mind<br>
730: And good old greed was back again<br>
731: The geeks were in a legal bind<br>
732: <br>
733: The Empire's Unix Lab<br>
734: sued BSDi from above<br>
735: The code is free but<br>
736: only we can sell it bub!<br>
737: <br>
738: The University came calling<br>
739: in full protective mode<br>
1.106 deraadt 740: and proved the source in Net/2<br>
1.104 deraadt 741: didn't use the Empire's code<br>
742: <br>
743: Then Bostic brought the Empire's books<br>
744: n' slammed them dandys down<br>
745: And showed the giant chunks<br>
746: of BSD code all around<br>
747: <br>
748: They didn't even give an ounce<br>
749: of credit front to back<br>
750: This broke the license USL<br>
751: was using to attack<br>
752: <br>
753: The case was thrown out by the judge<br>
754: and "settled" out of court<br>
755: And UCB was big enough<br>
756: to take it like a sport<br>
757: <br>
758: And to this day the geekfolk say<br>
759: Now did we win or lose?<br>
760: They shoulda made 'em reprint<br>
761: every book with proper dues<br>
762: <br>
763: And take out ads in major rags<br>
764: apologetically<br>
765: And maybe now it wouldn't be<br>
766: the same monopoly<br>
767: <br>
768: The Empire might have tumbled<br>
769: down if everybody saw<br>
770: How greed became so big<br>
771: they couldn't see that glaring flaw<br>
772: <br>
773: But only one community<br>
774: the one that makes it tick<br>
775: Is there to fight for everyone<br>
776: exposing hypocrites<br>
777: <br>
778: And OpenBSD is here<br>
779: to tell the story right<br>
780: Once again the fight is fought<br>
781: and kept in shining light<br>
782: <br>
783: And may the source be with you<br>
784: May the Empire fall apart<br>
785: Ya like that's gonna happen!<br>
786: But we gotta keep heart!<br>
787: <br>
788: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
789: <img width=395 height=1800 src="images/44song.jpg"><br>
790: </td></tr></table>
791: <p>
792: <em>
793: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics and vocals by Ty Semaka.
794: Clarinet by Cedric Blary. Alto Sax 1 & 2, Tenor Sax by Lincoln Frey.
795: Drum, Bass, and Steel Drum programming by Jonathan Lewis.
1.112 deraadt 796: Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
797: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.104 deraadt 798: <br>
799: <br>
800: </em>
1.20 deraadt 801:
802: <hr>
1.95 deraadt 803: <a name=43></a>
804: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="43.html">
805: 4.3: "Home to Hypocrisy"</a></font></h2>
806: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
807: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 808: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.95 deraadt 809: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.3 or other items]</a><br>
810: OpenBSD 4.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
811: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
812: <br>
813: 4:48 minutes
1.118 deraadt 814: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song43.mp3">(MP3 8.2MB)</a>
815: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song43.ogg">(OGG 6.5MB)</a><br>
1.95 deraadt 816: <br>
817: <a href="images/Cryptonaut.jpg">
818: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Cryptonaut" src="images/Cryptonaut.jpg"></a>
819: <br>
820: <br>
821: <em>
822: We are just plain tired of being lectured to by a man
823: who is a lot like
824: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/campbell_grounded/">Naomi Campbell</a>.
825: <br>
826: <br>
827: In 1998 when a United Airlines plane was waiting in the queue at
1.102 deraadt 828: Washington Dulles International Airport for take-off to New Orleans
829: (where a Usenix conference was taking place), one man stood up from
830: his seat, demanded that they stop waiting in the queue and be permitted
1.95 deraadt 831: to deplane. Even after orders from the crew and a pilot from
832: the cockpit he refused to sit down. The plane exited the queue
1.96 deraadt 833: and returned to the airport gangway. Security personnel ran onto
1.95 deraadt 834: the plane and removed this man, Richard Stallman, from the plane.
835: After Richard was removed from the plane, everyone else stayed
836: onboard and continued their journey to New Orleans. A few
837: OpenBSD developers were on that same plane, seated very closeby,
838: so we have an accurate story of the events.
839: <br>
840: <br>
841: This is the man who presumes that he should preach to us
842: about morality, freedom, and what is best for us. He believes
843: it is his God-given role to tell us what is best for us, when he
844: has shown that he takes actions which are not best for everyone.
845: He prefers actions which he thinks are best for him -- and him
846: alone -- and then lies to the public. Richard Stallman is no Spock.
847: <br>
848: <br>
849: We release our software in ways that are maximally free. We
850: remove all restrictions on use and distribution, but leave a
851: requirement to be known as the authors. We follow a pattern of
852: free source code distribution that started in the mid-1980's
853: in Berkeley, from before Richard Stallman had any powerful
854: influence which he could use so falsely.
855: <br>
856: <br>
857: We have a development sub-tree called "ports". Our "ports" tree
858: builds software that is 'found on the net' into packages that
859: OpenBSD users can use more easily. A scaffold of Makefiles and
860: scripts automatically fetch these pieces of software, apply
861: patches as required by OpenBSD, and then build them into nice
862: neat little tarballs. This is provided as a convenience for
1.97 okan 863: users. The ports tree is maintained by OpenBSD entirely separately
1.95 deraadt 864: from our main source tree. Some of the software which is fetched
865: and compiled is not as free as we would like, but what can we do.
866: All the other operating system projects make exactly the same
867: decision, and provide these same conveniences to their users.
868: <br>
869: <br>
870: Richard felt that this "ports tree" of ours made OpenBSD non-free.
871: He came to our mailing lists and lectured to us specifically, yet
872: he said nothing to the many other vendors who do the same; many of
873: them donate to the FSF and perhaps that has something to do with it.
874: Meanwhile, Richard has personally made sure that all the official
875: GNU software -- including Emacs -- compiles and runs on Windows.
876: <br>
877: <br>
878: That man is a false leader. He is a hypocrite. There may be some
879: people who listen to him. But we don't listen to people who do not
880: follow their own stupid rules.
881: </em>
882: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
883: <br>
884: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
885: <br>
886:
887: <br>
888: Puffy and the mighty Cryptonauts<br>
889: Trading with new lands by open C<br>
890: Corporate monsters, many closing passages<br>
891: Tempting harpies<br>
892: 13 years of treachery<br>
893: <br>
894: <br>
895: Journey's over, welcome home the heroes<br>
896: Offering the bounty of their trade<br>
897: Useful clothing spun from the golden fleece<br>
898: For the people, free and very strongly made<br>
899: <br>
900: <br>
901: But something's wrong with them<br>
902: They will not take our free wares<br>
903: "What's the matter good people?<br>
1.99 deraadt 904: Why are you so scared?<br>
905: Why?"<br>
1.95 deraadt 906: <br>
907: <br>
908: Then one brave soul spoke out<br>
909: "We're not allowed to take your gifts<br>
1.98 okan 910: Hypocrites has spoken<br>
1.95 deraadt 911: There are many new laws"<br>
912: <br>
913: <br>
1.98 okan 914: Hypocrites appears<br>
1.95 deraadt 915: "Puffy!<br>
916: You must obey my new rules!"<br>
917: <br>
918: <br>
919: "First rule one dictates<br>
920: You cannot give your code away"<br>
921: <br>
922: <br>
923: (In Greek) To your health, Nick, great bouzouki player and cool dude.<br>
924: <br>
925: <br>
926: "And rule two dictates<br>
927: You must give it to me<br>
928: So I can give it away properly for free"<br>
929: <br>
930: <br>
931: "The list goes on of course<br>
932: But for traders this is all you need"<br>
933: <br>
934: <br>
935: "This is madness!<br>
936: He has lost his mind!<br>
937: This defies the first law of free trade<br>
938: Rule zero came before this rule one<br>
939: Freedom means you cannot dictate to anyone"<br>
940: <br>
941: <br>
942: Then Hypocrites goes mad.<br>
943: <br>
944: <br>
945: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
946: <img width=395 height=1720 src="images/43song.gif"><br>
947: </td></tr></table>
948: <p>
949: <em>
950: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and
951: Nikkos Diochnos. Vocals and bouzouki by Nikkos Diochnos. Baglama,
952: second bouzouki, violin, bass, and drum programming by Stelios Pulos,
1.101 naddy 953: né Jonathan Lewis. Guitar by Methodios Valtiotis, né Allen Baekeland.
954: Percussion by Pentelis Yiannikopulos, né Ben Johnson. Recorded, mixed,
1.112 deraadt 955: and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
956: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.95 deraadt 957: <br>
958: <br>
959: </em>
960:
961: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 962: <a name=42></a>
963: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="42.html">
964: 4.2: "100001 1010101"</a></font></h2>
965: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
966: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 967: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.90 deraadt 968: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.2 or other items]</a><br>
969: OpenBSD 4.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
970: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
971: <br>
972: 4:40 minutes
1.118 deraadt 973: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song42.mp3">(MP3 4.0MB)</a>
974: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song42.ogg">(OGG 6.4MB)</a><br>
1.90 deraadt 975: <br>
976: <a href="images/Marathon.jpg">
977: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Marathon" src="images/Marathon.jpg"></a>
978: <br>
979: <br>
980: <em>
981: Those of us who work on OpenBSD are often asked why we do what we do.
1.91 merdely 982: This song's lyrics express the core motivations and goals which have
1.90 deraadt 983: remained unchanged over the years - secure, free, reliable software,
984: that can be shared with anyone. Many other projects purport to share
985: these same goals, and love to wrap themselves in a banner of "Open
986: Source" and "Free Software". Given how many projects there are one
987: would think it might be easy to stick to those goals, but it doesn't
988: seem to work out that way. A variety of desires drag many projects
989: away from the ideals very quickly.
990: <p>
1.93 jmc 991: Much of any operating system's usability depends on device support,
1.91 merdely 992: and there are some very tempting alternative ways to support devices
1.90 deraadt 993: available to those who will surrender their moral code. A project
994: could compromise by entering into NDA agreements with vendors, or
995: including binary objects in the operating system for which no source
996: code exists, or tying their users down with contract terms hidden
997: inside copyright notices. All of these choices surrender some subset
998: of the ideals, and we simply will not do this. Sure, we care about
999: getting devices working, but not at the expense of our original goals.
1000: <p>
1001: Of course since "free to share with anyone" is part of our goals,
1002: we've been at the forefront of many licensing and NDA issues,
1.91 merdely 1003: resulting in a good number of successes. This success had led to much
1.90 deraadt 1004: recognition for the advancement of Free Software causes, but has also
1005: led to other issues.
1006: <p>
1007: We fully admit that some BSD licensed software has been taken and used
1008: by many commercial entities, but contributions come back more often
1009: than people seem to know, and when they do, they're always still
1010: properly attributed to the original authors, and given back in the
1011: same spirit that they were given in the first place.
1012: <p>
1013: That's the best we can expect from companies. After all, we make our
1014: stuff so free so that everyone can benefit -- it remains a core goal;
1015: we really have not strayed at all in 10 years. But we can expect more
1016: from projects who talk about sharing -- such as the various Linux
1017: projects.
1018: <p>
1019: Now rather than seeing us as friends who can cooperatively improve all
1020: codebases, we are seen as foes who oppose the GPL. The participants
1021: of "the race" are being manipulated by the FSF and their legal arm, the
1022: SFLC, for the FSF's aims, rather than the goal of getting good source
1023: into Linux (and all other code bases). We don't want this to come off
1024: as some conspiracy theory, but we simply urge those developers caution
1025: -- they should ensure that the path they are being shown by those who
1026: have positioned themselves as leaders is still true. Run for yourself,
1027: not for their agenda.
1028: <p>
1029: The Race is there to be run, for ourselves, not for others. We do
1030: what we do to run our own race, and finish it the best we can. We
1031: don't rush off at every distraction, or worry how this will affect our
1032: image. We are here to have fun doing right.
1033: <p>
1034: </em>
1035: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1036: <br>
1037: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1038: <br>
1039: The starting line is nervous<br>
1040: we burst upon the course<br>
1041: Electric is our passion<br>
1042: An open hearted force<br>
1043: <br>
1044: The water's full of dangers<br>
1045: That interrupt the flow<br>
1046: And soon the spirit splinters<br>
1.92 deraadt 1047: as temptation takes its toll<br>
1.90 deraadt 1048: <br>
1049: *Give and get back some<br>
1050: Sharing it all<br>
1051: Path we know best<br>
1052: we're having a ball<br>
1053: Opulent mission<br>
1054: Lost in our passion<br>
1055: You can still choose<br>
1056: If you don't swim to win<br>
1057: you'll never lose*<br>
1058: <br>
1059: One Zero Zero Zero Zero One<br>
1060: <br>
1061: The window is a wall by now<br>
1062: A sieve of sickened holes<br>
1063: The water chicken stealing maps<br>
1064: Mistaking us for foes<br>
1065: <br>
1066: The sun a son of Icarus<br>
1067: Flies too close to itself<br>
1068: Forbidden fruit is blinded<br>
1069: by the toys upon the shelf<br>
1070: <br>
1071: *CHORUS*<br>
1072: <br>
1073: One Zero One Zero One Zero One<br>
1074: <br>
1075: Slow and steady wins they say<br>
1076: but this is not a race<br>
1077: It's not about who takes a prize<br>
1078: for first or second place<br>
1079: <br>
1080: Imaginary rings of brass<br>
1081: Were traded for real goals<br>
1082: The vision and the mission lost<br>
1083: For those with corporate souls<br>
1084: <br>
1085: *Give and get back some<br>
1086: Sharing it all<br>
1087: Path we know best<br>
1088: we're having a ball<br>
1089: Give and get zeros<br>
1090: Give and get ones<br>
1091: Given to you but<br>
1092: Not you to us<br>
1093: Opulent mission<br>
1094: Lost in our passion<br>
1095: You can still choose<br>
1096: If you don't swim to win<br>
1097: you'll never lose<br>
1098: You'll never lose*<br>
1099: <br>
1100: <br>
1101: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1102: <img width=396 height=1876 src="images/42song.gif"><br>
1103: </td></tr></table>
1104: <p>
1105: <em>
1106: Music written and arranged by Jonathan Lewis. Recorded, mixed and
1.112 deraadt 1107: mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1108: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.90 deraadt 1109: Vocals by Duncan McDonnald (www.thegreatgavalan.com). Drums by
1110: John McNeil. Guitar by Jeff Drummond. Bass and keyboards by
1111: Jonathan Lewis. Lyrics by Ty Semaka and Theo de Raadt.
1112: <br>
1113: <br>
1114: </em>
1115:
1116: <hr>
1.81 deraadt 1117: <a name=41></a>
1118: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="41.html">
1119: 4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"</a></font></h2>
1120: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1121: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1122: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.81 deraadt 1123: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.1 or other items]</a><br>
1124: OpenBSD 4.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1125: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1126: <br>
1127: 4:19 minutes
1.118 deraadt 1128: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song41.mp3">(MP3 4.1MB)</a>
1129: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song41.ogg">(OGG 8.3MB)</a><br>
1.81 deraadt 1130: <br>
1131: <a href="images/PuffyBaba.jpg">
1132: <img width=227 height=343 alt="PuffyBaba" src="images/PuffyBaba.jpg"></a>
1133: <br>
1134: <br>
1135: <em>
1136: As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities
1137: is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains
1138: useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the
1139: hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising
1140: that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to
1141: device support.
1142: <p>
1.85 mbalmer 1143: Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, through to libraries,
1.81 deraadt 1144: all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious
1145: interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing"
1146: mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the
1147: time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant
1148: challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior
1149: of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly
1150: weird, or even buggy.
1151: <p>
1152: When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can
1153: become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused
1154: for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because
1155: the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease
1156: these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation
1157: from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to
1.84 matthieu 1158: documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple all these devices
1.81 deraadt 1159: actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in
1160: OpenBSD, either).
1161: <p>
1162: When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation,
1163: our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair,
1164: and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But
1165: unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or
1166: 20 years building
1.83 wvdputte 1167: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00024.html">
1.81 deraadt 1168: political hurdles against the smaller players</a>.
1169: <p>
1.82 jsg 1170: A particularly nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and
1.87 tom 1171: some Linux developers, who have played along with an American corporate model
1.81 deraadt 1172: of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux
1173: into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system
1174: communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for
1175: requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would
1176: work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems
1177: would be fantastic by now.
1178: <p>
1179: We only ask that
1.83 wvdputte 1180: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00027.html">
1.81 deraadt 1181: users help</a> us in changing the political landscape.
1182: </em>
1183: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1184: <br>
1185: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1186: <br>
1187: Here's an old story ...<br>
1188: <br>
1189: <br>
1190: Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors<br>
1191: We all know the details<br>
1192: Magic cave, magic words, some thieves,<br>
1193: some serious loot,<br>
1194: and lucky - Mister - Baba<br>
1195: Who got a bad rap if you ask me<br>
1196: The little guy who<br>
1197: did the best with what he had<br>
1198: <br>
1199: <br>
1200: Here are Mr. Baba's lessons<br>
1201: Load one ass, take a few trips and spend<br>
1202: in moderation<br>
1203: Three things the average man can't - get - right<br>
1204: <br>
1205: <br>
1206: If you know your brother is a greedy bastard<br>
1207: never give him the password<br>
1208: If he goes penguin on you,<br>
1209: stop - being - his brother.<br>
1210: When a cave is guarded by magic lawyers<br>
1.86 tom 1211: A sea of blood will be its doormat<br>
1.81 deraadt 1212: So do the best with what you have<br>
1213: <br>
1214: <br>
1215: Beyond the lessons - you must know this<br>
1216: that the Devil is as real as your address<br>
1217: But unlike Vendors,<br>
1218: he at least keeps the door open<br>
1219: <br>
1220: <br>
1221: Vendors of water that should be free<br>
1222: Look upon their words and despair<br>
1223: Their badvertising made a thief of my brother<br>
1224: then made him better off dead<br>
1225: Now he hasn't got shit to do his best with<br>
1226: <br>
1227: <br>
1228: Gratis. Free. Libre. Cuffo.<br>
1229: The companies of thieves stole every good adjective<br>
1230: and left us with open source (sores)<br>
1231: sharing smaller and smaller bandages<br>
1232: for each consecutive cut<br>
1233: But with the salty water of labour<br>
1234: parched desert becomes pregnant black soil<br>
1235: <br>
1236: <br>
1237: It's not whether you're well off<br>
1238: it's where you dig the well<br>
1239: The best the little guy can do is what<br>
1240: the little guy does right<br>
1241: <br>
1242: <br>
1243: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1244: <img width=396 height=1904 src="images/41song.gif"><br>
1245: </td></tr></table>
1246: <p>
1247: <em>
1.112 deraadt 1248: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1249: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1250: Voice by Richard Sixto. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
1.81 deraadt 1251: <br>
1252: <br>
1253: </em>
1254:
1255: <hr>
1.115 deraadt 1256: <a name=audio_extra></a>
1.76 deraadt 1257: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
1258: "OpenVOX"</a></font></h2>
1259: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1260: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1261: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.76 deraadt 1262: <a href="orders.html">[Order the OpenBSD audio CD or other items]</a><br>
1263: These are the lyrics for the extra track on the OpenBSD Audio CD.<br>
1264: <br>
1265: 4:00 minutes
1.118 deraadt 1266: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/songty.mp3">(MP3 3.9MB)</a>
1267: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/songty.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
1.76 deraadt 1268: <br>
1269: <img height=158 width=158 hspace="5" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
1270: <br>
1271: <br>
1272: <em>
1273: This is an <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
1274: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the audio CD.
1275: <p>
1276: This song details the process that Ty has to go through to make the art
1277: and music for each OpenBSD release.
1278: Ty and Theo really do go to a (very specific) bar and discuss what is
1279: going on in the project, and then try to find a theme that will work...
1.111 deraadt 1280: <p>
1281: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
1282: Order this CDROM from our International site.</a>
1283: <p>
1284: The OpenBSD Audio celebrates the artwork and songs that
1285: have been released with each OpenBSD release. All the
1286: songs from the 3.0 to 4.0 releases are included (plus
1287: one bonus track by Ty Semaka explaining his role in the
1288: development of the art that accompanies OpenBSD releases).
1289: <p>
1290: Includes a 11cm silver-on-clear die-cut wireframe Puffy sticker!
1.76 deraadt 1291: </em>
1292: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1293: <br>
1294: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1295: Be Open<br>
1296: Be Vocal<br>
1297: Stay Open<br>
1298: Stay Vocal<br>
1299: <br>
1300: (repeat)<br>
1301: <br>
1302: OpenBSD<br>
1303: <br>
1304: Twice a year,<br>
1305: me an' Theo Theorize over beer<br>
1306: at the Ship and outhip all the misers<br>
1307: and take strips out of liars.<br>
1308: He sits me down and he tries to explain:<br>
1309: He says "The badabadabingabanger<br>
1310: button on the raidorama cuttin'<br>
1.78 deraadt 1311: on the systematicalifornication<br>
1.76 deraadt 1312: and a license application<br>
1313: is a fishybomination<br>
1314: and a random allocation<br>
1315: got a copywritten melanoma<br>
1316: sasafrazzin' wireless device".<br>
1317: OK stop.<br>
1318: I get it.<br>
1319: Some asshole lied.<br>
1320: <br>
1321: And then he says,<br>
1.78 deraadt 1322: "The crashorama villaination<br>
1.76 deraadt 1323: lawyerific pornication threatifies<br>
1324: the only honest hackerammerunderider<br>
1325: in the cyber cider documation<br>
1326: universal anagrama-attic (I'm outta here)<br>
1327: cohabitationizizingation"<br>
1328: OK stop.<br>
1329: I get it.<br>
1330: <a href="http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/summit2006/james_ketrenos.pdf">
1331: Some asshole said he was "open"<br>
1332: but he was only open for business.<br></a>
1333: I get it.<br>
1334: Where's my pencils?<br>
1335: Bring me my mic!<br>
1336: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1337: Be Open<br>
1338: Be Vocal<br>
1339: Stay Open<br>
1340: Stay Vocal<br>
1341: <br>
1342: (repeat)<br>
1343: <br>
1344: Then he has another beer and<br>
1345: gets all, you know, pushy.<br>
1346: Make Puffy kill pussies?<br>
1347: And too much thinkin' and kitchen sinkin'<br>
1348: the drawings or toons I should say,<br>
1349: where a fish can talk, be an agent<br>
1350: a hit man or walk, and ride horses<br>
1351: and forces my hand to make Puffy a spy<br>
1352: or a cowboy, or WHY a little girl, in a dream<br>
1353: and fake Floyd as the theme?<br>
1354: And squeeze in five concepts<br>
1355: every time, every song!<br>
1356: And the geeks and Theo lose it<br>
1357: if I draw the device wrong!<br>
1358: "It's four little buttons not five Ty"<br>
1359: And pretty soon I'll be losing my mind<br>
1360: cause it's a f@#!kin' cartoon!<br>
1361: <br>
1362: (beat boxin')<br>
1363: <br>
1364: <br>
1365: </td></tr></table>
1366: <p>
1367: <em>
1368: <br>
1369: </em>
1370:
1371: <hr>
1372: <a name=40></a>
1373: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="40.html">
1374: 4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a></font></h2>
1375: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1376: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1377: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.76 deraadt 1378: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.0 or other items]</a><br>
1379: OpenBSD 4.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1380: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1381: <br>
1382: 2:40 minutes
1.118 deraadt 1383: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song40.mp3">(MP3 2.3MB)</a>
1384: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song40.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
1.76 deraadt 1385: <br>
1386: <a href="images/Pufferix.jpg">
1387: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufferix" src="images/Pufferix.jpg"></a>
1388: <br>
1389: <br>
1390: <em>
1391: The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail)
1.77 deraadt 1392: resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP
1.76 deraadt 1393: servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project
1.77 deraadt 1394: sells to continue our development goals.
1.76 deraadt 1395: <br>
1396: <br>
1397: While tests of the release binaries are done by developers
1.77 deraadt 1398: around the world, Theo and some developers from Calgary
1399: or Edmonton (such as Peter Valchev or Bob Beck) test that
1.76 deraadt 1400: the discs are full of (only) correct code. Ty Semaka works for
1401: approximately two months to design and draw artwork that will fit
1402: the designated theme, and coordinates with his music buddies to
1403: write and record a song that also matches the theme.
1404: <br>
1405: <br>
1406: Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant,
1407: so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.
1408: <br>
1409: <br>
1410: This release, instead of bemoaning vendors or organizations that
1411: try to make our task of writing free software more difficult, we
1412: instead celebrate the 10 years that we have been given (so far) to
1413: write free software, express our themes in art, and the 5 years
1414: that we have made music with a group of talented musicians.
1.77 deraadt 1415: <br>
1416: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1417: OpenBSD developers have been torturing each other for years now
1418: with Humppa-style music, so this release our users get a taste
1.77 deraadt 1419: of this too. Sometimes at hackathons you will hear the same
1420: songs being played on multiple laptops, out of sync. It is
1421: under such duress that much of our code gets written.
1.76 deraadt 1422: <br>
1423: <br>
1424: We feel like Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of
1425: Freedom to those who want them whenever the need arises, then
1426: returning to celebrate the (unlocked) source tree with all the
1427: other developers.
1428: </em>
1429: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1430: <br>
1431: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1432: <br>
1433: <br>
1434: <br>
1435: Humppa negala<br>
1436: Humppa negala<br>
1437: Humppa negala<br>
1438: Venismechah<br>
1439: <br>
1440: Humppa negala<br>
1441: Humppa negala<br>
1442: Humppa negala<br>
1443: Venismechah<br>
1444: <br>
1445: Humppa neranenah<br>
1446: Humppa neranenah<br>
1447: Humppa neranenah<br>
1448: Venismechah<br>
1449: <br>
1450: Humppa neranenah<br>
1451: Humppa neranenah<br>
1452: Humppa neranenah<br>
1453: Venismechah<br>
1454: <br>
1455: Uru, uru achim!<br>
1456: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1457: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1458: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1459: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1460: uru achim!<br>
1461: uru achim!<br>
1462: OpenBSD!<br>
1463: <br>
1464: <br>
1465: (circus torture)<br>
1466: <br>
1467: <br>
1468: Humppa negala<br>
1469: Humppa negala<br>
1470: Humppa negala<br>
1471: Venismechah<br>
1472: <br>
1473: Humppa negala<br>
1474: Humppa negala<br>
1475: Humppa negala<br>
1476: Venismechah<br>
1477: <br>
1478: Humppa neranenah<br>
1479: Humppa neranenah<br>
1480: Humppa neranenah<br>
1481: Venismechah<br>
1482: <br>
1483: Humppa neranenah<br>
1484: Humppa neranenah<br>
1485: Humppa neranenah<br>
1486: Venismechah<br>
1487: <br>
1488: Uru, uru achim!<br>
1489: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1490: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1491: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1492: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
1493: uru achim!<br>
1494: uru achim!<br>
1495: OpenBSD!<br>
1496: <br>
1497: <br>
1498: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1499: <img width=396 height=1862 src="images/40song.gif"><br>
1500: </td></tr></table>
1501: <p>
1502: <em>
1.90 deraadt 1503: Based on the traditional Jewish song "Hava Nagilah" composed by Anonymous.
1.76 deraadt 1504: Section of "Enter The Gladiators" (circus theme) composed by Julius Fucik.
1.112 deraadt 1505: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1506: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1507: Accordion, Tuba and drums by Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by
1.94 tobias 1508: Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.76 deraadt 1509: <br>
1510: <br>
1511: </em>
1512:
1513: <hr>
1.63 deraadt 1514: <a name=39></a>
1.64 jolan 1515: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="39.html">
1.63 deraadt 1516: 3.9: "Blob!"</a></font></h2>
1517: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1518: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1519: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.63 deraadt 1520: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.9 or other items]</a><br>
1521: OpenBSD 3.9 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1522: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1523: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1524: 4:00 minutes
1.118 deraadt 1525: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song39.mp3">(MP3 7.6MB)</a>
1526: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song39.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
1.63 deraadt 1527: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1528: <a href="images/Blob.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 1529: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Blob" src="images/Blob.jpg"></a>
1.63 deraadt 1530: <br>
1531: <br>
1532: <em>
1533: OpenBSD emphasizes security. It also emphasizes openness. All the code
1534: is there for all to see. Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers
1535: without any source code. Hardware makers like them because they
1536: obscure the details of how to make their hardware work. They hide bugs
1537: and workarounds for bugs. Newer versions of blobs can weaken support
1538: for older hardware and motivate people to buy new hardware.<br>
1539: <br>
1540: <br>
1541: Blobs are expedient. Many other open source operating systems
1542: cheerfully incorporate them; in fact their users demand them.<br>
1543: <br>
1544: <br>
1545: But when you need to trust the system, how do you check the blob for
1546: quality? For adherence to standards? How do you know the blob contains
1547: no malicious code? No incompetent code? Inspection is impossible; you
1548: can only test the black box. And when it breaks, you have no idea why.<br>
1549: <br>
1550: <br>
1551: <ul>
1552: <li>Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors<br>
1553: at any time.<br>
1554: <br>
1555: <li>Blobs cannot be supported by developers.<br>
1556: <br>
1557: <li>Blobs cannot be fixed by developers.<br>
1558: <br>
1559: <li>Blobs cannot be improved.<br>
1560: <br>
1561: <li>Blobs cannot be audited.<br>
1562: <br>
1563: <li>
1564: Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus<br>
1565: less portable.<br>
1566: <br>
1567: <li>Blobs are quite often massively bloated.<br>
1568: </ul>
1569: <br>
1570: <br>
1571: This release, like every OpenBSD release, contains OpenBSD and its
1572: source code. It runs on a wide variety of hardware. It contains many
1573: new features and improvements. OpenBSD does attempt to convince
1574: vendors to release documentation, and often reverse-engineers around
1575: the need for blobs. OpenBSD remains blob-free. Anyone can look at it,
1576: assess it, improve it. If it breaks, it can be fixed.
1577: </em>
1578: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1579: <br>
1580: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1581: <br><br><br>
1582: Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby<br>
1583: when we found him on the beach,<br>
1584: there was nothin' shady<br>
1585: you could bounce him on your knee<br>
1586: like a ba-ba-ball<br>
1587: and his first little word was adorable<br>
1588: <br>
1589: He said a blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1590: blah blah blah<br>
1591: Blah!<br>
1592: <br>
1593: <br>
1594: Thin edge of the wedge?<br>
1595: But everybody was so happy - about Blob<br>
1596: <br>
1597: <br>
1598: Blob was popular at school he was helpful too<br>
1599: He could get your motor runnin'<br>
1600: with a drop of goo<br>
1601: He was givin' it away never charged a dime<br>
1602: But by the time he graduated<br>
1603: Blob was business slime!<br>
1604: <br>
1605: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1606: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1607: blah blah<br>
1608: <br>
1609: <br>
1610: He's givin' you the Evil Eye!<br>
1611: <br>
1612: <br>
1613: Now everybody had it<br>
1614: they was drivin' around<br>
1615: They was givin' up their freedoms<br>
1616: for convenience now<br>
1617: Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch<br>
1618: And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!<br>
1619: <br>
1620: <br>
1621: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1622: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1623: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1624: blah blah<br>
1625: <br>
1626: <br>
1627: It's linkin' time!<br>
1628: <br>
1629: <br>
1630: Now it was out of control<br>
1631: n' fishy's came to depend<br>
1632: on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end<br>
1633: Then his empire spread and to their surprise<br>
1634: Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!<br>
1635: <br>
1636: <br>
1637: He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1638: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1639: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1640: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
1641: B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b<br>
1642: <br>
1643: <br>
1.66 deraadt 1644: Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein<br>
1.63 deraadt 1645: And he battled the Blob<br>
1646: who had crossed the line<br>
1647: He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"<br>
1648: I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!<br>
1649: <br>
1650: <br>
1651: But it was too late!<br>
1652: Blob was takin' over the world!<br>
1653: He wants your video!<br>
1654: Ya he wants your net!<br>
1655: He wants your drive!<br>
1656: He wants it all!!<br>
1657: <br>
1658: <br>
1659: Somebody help us!<br>
1660: Noooooooo!<br>
1661: NVIDIA!<br>
1662: Intel!<br>
1663: Atheros!<br>
1664: 3-Ware!<br>
1665: VIA!<br>
1666: ATI!<br>
1667: Broadcom!<br>
1668: TI!<br>
1669: Myricom!<br>
1670: HighPoint!<br>
1671: Adaptec!<br>
1672: Mylex!<br>
1673: ICP Vortex!<br>
1674: and IBM!<br>
1675: Takin' over the world!<br>
1676: <br>
1677: <br>
1678: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1679: <img height=2160 width=396 src="images/39song.gif"><br>
1.63 deraadt 1680: </td></tr></table>
1681: <p>
1682: <em>
1683: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
1.112 deraadt 1684: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1685: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.63 deraadt 1686: Vocals and Lyrics by <a href="http://www.tysemaka.com">Ty Semaka</a> &
1687: Theo de Raadt.
1688: Bass guitar, organ and bubbles by Jonathan Lewis.
1689: Guitar by <a href="http://www.tom-bagley.com">Tom Bagley</a>.
1690: Drums by Jim Buick.
1691: <br>
1692: <br>
1693: </em>
1694:
1695: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 1696: <a name=38></a>
1697: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="38.html">
1698: 3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a></font></h2>
1699: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1700: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1701: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.58 deraadt 1702: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.8 or other items]</a><br>
1703: OpenBSD 3.8 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1704: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1705: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1706: 4:24 minutes
1.118 deraadt 1707: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song38.mp3">(MP3 8.1MB)</a>
1708: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song38.ogg">(OGG 5.6MB)</a><br>
1.76 deraadt 1709: Instrumental version
1.118 deraadt 1710: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song38b.mp3">(MP3 8.0MB)</a>
1711: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song38b.ogg">(OGG 5.5MB)</a><br>
1.58 deraadt 1712: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1713: <a href="images/Jones.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 1714: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Jones" src="images/Jones.jpg"></a>
1.58 deraadt 1715: <br>
1716: <br>
1717: <em>
1718: For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock
1719: out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our
1720: programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support
1721: their devices.
1722: <p>
1723: Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support
1724: for the
1.70 steven 1725: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4">aac(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1726: Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed.
1727: They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support
1728: for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which
1729: affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of
1730: course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these
1.59 jolan 1731: bugs are because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy firmware
1732: issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation we
1733: cannot solve these issues.
1.58 deraadt 1734: <p>
1735: The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts
1736: of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no
1737: public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with
1738: different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate
1739: development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of
1740: "quality" to show its head.
1741: <p>
1742: RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for:
1743: <br>
1744: <ul>
1.60 pvalchev 1745: <li>Redundancy
1.58 deraadt 1746: <li>Repair
1747: </ul>
1748: You want a RAID unit to provide you with redundancy, so that if some drives
1.60 pvalchev 1749: fail, your data is not lost. But once a drive has failed, you require your
1750: array to (automatically, most likely) perform the operations to repair
1.58 deraadt 1751: itself, so that it is functioning perfectly again.
1752: <p>
1753: Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have
1754: sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers,
1755: so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have
1756: never given us any documentation for performing Repairs.
1757: <p>
1758: Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management
1759: tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that
1.67 jolan 1760: is supposed to work through a bizarre interface in the device driver, which
1.58 deraadt 1761: we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation.
1762: <p>
1763: And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on
1764: vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for
1765: the AMI controllers.
1766: <p>
1767: There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all
1768: rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement
1769: basic RAID management:
1770: <ul>
1771: <li>SCSI transactions on the back-side busses
1772: <li>Discovering which drives are in which volumes
1773: <li>Being able to silence the buzzer
1774: <li>Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare
1775: </ul>
1776: <p>
1777: The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations.
1778: And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost
1779: all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives.
1780: <p>
1781: Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later
1782: work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation
1783: or do some reverse engineering for their products.
1784: <p>
1.60 pvalchev 1785: But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when (if
1786: ever) we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID
1.58 deraadt 1787: controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which
1788: may mean we can never get documentation for the
1.70 steven 1789: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 1790: controllers.
1791: The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we
1792: would not get documentation, either.
1793: 3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians
1794: look saintly.
1795: <p>
1796: Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID
1797: in OpenBSD, please buy
1798: <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/index.html">LSI/AMI</a>
1799: RAID cards. And everything
1.88 miod 1800: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112630095818062&w=2">
1.58 deraadt 1801: will just work</a>.
1802: <p>
1803: And keep pestering the other vendors.
1804: <br>
1805: </em>
1806: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1807: <br>
1808: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1809: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
1810: Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!<br>
1811: <br>
1812: Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!<br>
1813: <br>
1814: Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most
1815: treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and
1816: morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed
1817: hackologist and adventurer!<br>
1818: <br>
1819: Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from
1820: the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile
1821: vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.<br>
1822: <br>
1823: Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!<br>
1824: <br>
1825: <br>
1826: <font color="#b00000">Marlus:</font>
1827: Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.<br>
1828: <br>
1829: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1830: I'm a careful guy Marlus.<br>
1831: <br>
1832: <br>
1833: <font color="#b00000">Puffy and Salmah:</font>
1834: They're hacking in the wrong place!<br>
1835: <br>
1836: <br>
1837: <font color="#b00000">Beluge:</font>
1838: You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!<br>
1839: <br>
1840: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1841: Now you're gettin' nasty.<br>
1842: <br>
1843: <br>
1844: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
1845: SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?<br>
1846: <br>
1847: <font color="#b00000">Salmah:</font>
1848: API's, very dangerous. You go first.<br>
1849: <br>
1850: <br>
1851: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
1852: Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally,
1853: there before him
1854: lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most
1855: secure operating system,
1856: to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by
1857: the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?<br>
1858: <br>
1859: Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of
1860: Puffiana Jones!<br>
1861: <br>
1862: <br>
1863: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1864: <img height=2160 width=380 src="images/38song.gif"><br>
1.58 deraadt 1865: </td></tr></table>
1866: <p>
1867: <em>
1868: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
1869: The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis.
1870: Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough.
1.112 deraadt 1871: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of
1872: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.58 deraadt 1873: <br>
1874: <br>
1875: </em>
1876:
1877: <hr>
1.44 deraadt 1878: <a name=37></a>
1879: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="37.html">
1880: 3.7: "Wizard of OS"</a></font></h2>
1881: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1882: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 1883: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.44 deraadt 1884: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.7 or other items]</a><br>
1885: OpenBSD 3.7 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1886: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1887: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1888: 10:08 minutes
1.118 deraadt 1889: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song37.mp3">(MP3 18MB)</a>
1890: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song37.ogg">(OGG 13MB)</a><br>
1.44 deraadt 1891: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1892: <a href="images/Wizard.jpg">
1893: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Wizard" src="images/Wizard.jpg"></a>
1.44 deraadt 1894: <br>
1895: <br>
1896: <em>
1897: For an operating system to get anywhere in "the market" it must have
1898: good device support.<br>
1899: <br>
1900: Ethernet was our first concern. Many vendors refused to supply
1901: programmers with programming documentation for these chipsets. Donald
1902: Becker (Linux) and Bill Paul (FreeBSD) changed the rules of the game
1903: here: They wrote drivers for the chipsets that they could get
1904: documentation for, and as they succeeded in writing more and more
1905: drivers, eventually closed vendors slowly opened up until most
1906: ethernet chipset documentation was available. Today, some vendors
1907: still resist releasing ethernet chipset documentation (ie. Broadcom,
1.62 brad 1908: Intel, Marvell/SysKonnect, NVIDIA) but the driver problem is mostly
1.46 henning 1909: solved in the ethernet market.<br>
1.44 deraadt 1910: <br>
1911: Similar problems have happened in the SCSI, IDE, and RAID markets.
1912: Again, the problem was solved by writing drivers for documented
1913: devices first. If the free software user communities use those drivers
1914: preferentially, it is a market loss for the secretive vendors.
1915: Another approach that has worked is to publish email addresses and
1916: phone numbers for the marketing department managers in these
1917: companies. These email campaigns have worked almost every time.<br>
1918: <br>
1919: The new frontier: 802.11 wireless chipsets.<br>
1920: <br>
1921: Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project.
1922: We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we
1923: could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did
1.52 deraadt 1924: not succeed for some vendors. But we did influence some vendors, in
1.44 deraadt 1925: particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us
1926: everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.<br>
1927: <br>
1928:
1929: Want to help us? Avoid
1930: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw">Intel Centrino</a>,
1931: Broadcom, TI, or Connexant PrismGT chipsets.
1932: Heck, avoid buying even regular
1.48 deraadt 1933: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi">old pre-G Prism products</a>,
1.44 deraadt 1934: to send a message.
1.48 deraadt 1935: If you can, buy 802.11 products using chips by
1.44 deraadt 1936: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw">Realtek</a>,
1937: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral">Ralink</a>,
1938: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu">Atmel</a>,
1939: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awi">ADMTek</a>,
1940: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">Atheros</a>.
1941: Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box
1.52 deraadt 1942: which chipsets into which product.
1.44 deraadt 1943: <br>
1944: <br>
1945: Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in
1.56 cloder 1946: Redmond largely continues their practices because they get
1.44 deraadt 1947: the chipset documentation years before everyone else does.
1948: What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing
1949: Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them
1950: distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers
1.49 nick 1951: are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free
1.44 deraadt 1952: development information for all, but are even going further and
1953: telling their development communities to not work with us at
1954: pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
1955: <br>
1956: </em>
1957: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1958: <br>
1959: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
1960: The heroine is deaf to her device<br>
1961: her uncles on the farm,<br>
1962: send out the alarm<br>
1963: and the shit storm flies<br>
1964: E-maelstrom is lifting up the house<br>
1965: With Puffathy inside,<br>
1966: twisting up a ride<br>
1967: to the land of OS<br>
1968: Hard landing, the packets celebrate<br>
1969: The wicked lawyers dead<br>
1970: The open slippers red are<br>
1971: Hers to take<br>
1972: <br>
1.53 otto 1973: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1974: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1975: <br>
1976: The north witch instructed Puffathy<br>
1977: To get yourself back home<br>
1978: Take this yellow road and<br>
1.47 pvalchev 1979: You'll be fine<br>
1.44 deraadt 1980: Believe in the open ruby shoes<br>
1981: Now go to see the Wiz and<br>
1982: give Taiwan your biz<br>
1983: You'll never lose<br>
1984: The 3 friends she made along the way<br>
1985: Were nice but pretty lame,<br>
1986: lazy and insane<br>
1987: but they sang OK<br>
1988: <br>
1.53 otto 1989: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 1990: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
1991: <br>
1992: Finally we're through the trees<br>
1993: The city glows<br>
1994: It's positively green<br>
1995: Pompously the wizard booms<br>
1996: He wants the broom of triple 'w'<br>
1997: <br>
1998: Go to the west<br>
1999: You must pass the test<br>
2000: For me<br>
2001: Bring me the ride<br>
2002: of the witch I despise<br>
2003: And you'll be free<br>
2004: <br>
2005: You don't need the broom<br>
2006: You don't need the shoes<br>
2007: You don't need the wiz<br>
2008: You will never lose<br>
2009: You have all you need<br>
2010: You always had heart<br>
2011: You always had courage<br>
2012: Did somebody fart?<br>
2013: You always had brains<br>
2014: You answered each call<br>
1.57 deraadt 2015: And this may surprise you<br>
1.44 deraadt 2016: But you've got some balls<br>
2017: So double click heels<br>
2018: and work with Taiwan<br>
2019: And speak to your doggie<br>
2020: You're already gone....<br>
2021: <br>
2022: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2023: <img height=1079 width=380 src="images/37song.gif"><br>
1.44 deraadt 2024: </td></tr></table>
2025: <p>
2026: <em>
2027: Lyrics and vocal melody written by Ty Semaka.
2028: Main vocals by Jonathan Lewis, sung female vocals by Adele Legere,
2029: Puffathy (little girl voice) by Anita Miotti, monkeys and laughing by Ty
2030: Semaka,
2031: guitar by Reed Shimozawa, drums, bass and all other sounds programmed by
1.55 tom 2032: Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.112 deraadt 2033: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at
2034: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.44 deraadt 2035: <br>
2036: <br>
2037: </em>
2038:
2039: <hr>
1.37 deraadt 2040: <a name=36></a>
2041: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="36.html">
2042: 3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a></font></h2>
2043: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2044: <tr>
2045: <td valign="top" width="28%">
2046: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.6 or other items]</a><br>
2047: OpenBSD 3.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2048: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2049: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2050: 4:00 minutes
1.118 deraadt 2051: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song36.mp3">(MP3 7.7MB)</a>
2052: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song36.ogg">(OGG 5.2MB)</a><br>
1.37 deraadt 2053: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2054: <a href="images/Ponderosa.jpg">
1.123 deraadt 2055: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Ponderosa" src="images/Ponderosa.jpg"></a>
1.37 deraadt 2056: <br>
2057: <br>
2058: <em>
2059: What is up with some free software providers?!
2060: They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind."
2061: <p>
2062: While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which
2063: has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore
2064: we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided
1.41 deraadt 2065: to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is
1.37 deraadt 2066: going to remember them in the end.
2067: <p>
2068: This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who
2069: have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their
2070: offerings in the last few years:
2071: <ul>
2072: <li>David Dawes worked for years with a team of
2073: developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use,
2074: called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free
2075: code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that
2076: we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or
2077: stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had
2078: told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a
2079: replacement effort.
1.41 deraadt 2080: Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date...
1.37 deraadt 2081: <p>
2082: <li>OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a
2083: packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed
2084: that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we
2085: were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf,
2086: and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the
2087: one he wrote. And other projects are switching too...
2088: <p>
2089: <li>The Apache group started from the humble beginnings
2090: of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free
2091: web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them,
2092: and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under
1.40 jolan 2093: a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no
1.51 jcs 2094: doubt that there are encumbrances hidden within. Legal terms
1.37 deraadt 2095: protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom.
2096: </ul>
2097: So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any
2098: others who will follow them:
2099: Make your stuff non-free, and something else will
2100: replace it.
2101: <br>
2102: </em>
2103: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2104: <br>
2105: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2106: <br>
2107: <br>
2108: Well he rode from the ocean far upstream<br>
2109: Nuthin' to his name but a code and a dream<br>
2110: Lookin' for the legendary inland sea<br>
2111: Where the water was deep n' clean n' free<br>
2112: <p>
2113: But the town he found had suffered a blow<br>
1.38 pvalchev 2114: Fish were dying, cause the water was low<br>
1.37 deraadt 2115: Fat cat fish name o' Diamond Dawes<br>
2116: Plugged the stream with copyright laws<br>
2117: <p>
2118: <br>
2119: He said my water's good n' my water's free<br>
2120: So Pond-erosa, you gonna thank me!<br>
2121: Then he bottled it up and he labeled it "Mine"<br>
2122: They opened n' poured, but they ran outta time!<br>
2123: <p>
2124: So Puff made a brand and he tanned his hide<br>
2125: Said. "this is the mark of too much pride"<br>
2126: Tied him to a horse, set the tail on fire<br>
2127: Slapped er on the ass and the water went higher!<br>
2128: <p>
2129: <br>
2130: Pond-erosa Puff<br>
2131: wouldn't take no guff<br>
1.41 deraadt 2132: Water oughta be clean and free<br>
1.37 deraadt 2133: So he fought the fight<br>
2134: and he set things right<br>
2135: With his OpenBSD<br>
2136: <p>
2137: <br>
2138: Well things were good fer a spell in town<br>
2139: But then one day, dang water turned brown<br>
2140: Comin' to the rescue, Mayor Reed<br>
2141: He said, "This here filter's all ya'll need"<br>
2142: <p>
2143: But it didn't take long 'fore the filter plugged<br>
2144: Full of mud, n' crud, n' bugs<br>
2145: Folks said "gotta be a gooder way"<br>
2146: Mayor said "Hell No! She's O.K."<br>
2147: <p>
2148: <br>
2149: "The water's fine on the Open range"<br>
2150: And he passed a law that it couldn't change.<br>
1.51 jcs 2151: "No freeze, no boil, no frolicking young"<br>
1.37 deraadt 2152: Puff took him aside, said "this is wrong"<br>
2153: <p>
2154: Then he found the Mayor was addin' the crud!<br>
2155: So he took him down in a cloud of blood<br>
2156: Said "The Mayor's learnd, he's done been mean"<br>
2157: So they did it right and the water went clean!<br>
2158: <p>
2159: <br>
2160: CHORUS<br>
2161: <p>
2162: <br>
2163: So once agin' it was right, but then<br>
2164: The lake went dry, she was gone again!<br>
2165: Fish started flippin' and floppin' about<br>
1.42 deraadt 2166: Yellin' "Mercy Puff! It's a doggone drought!"<br>
1.37 deraadt 2167: <p>
2168: So he rolled up-gulch till he hit the lake<br>
2169: Of Apache fish, they was on the take<br>
2170: They'd built a dam that was made of rules<br>
2171: Now Puff was pissed and he lost his cool!<br>
2172: <p>
2173: <br>
2174: I'm sick and tired of these goldarn words!<br>
1.39 mcbride 2175: n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds!<br>
1.37 deraadt 2176: You're full o' beans n' killin' my town<br>
2177: and if you's all don't shut er down<br>
2178: <p>
2179: I'll hang a lickin' on every one<br>
2180: of you sons o' bitchin' greedy scum!<br>
1.41 deraadt 2181: So he blew the dam, an' he let 'er haul<br>
2182: Cause water oughta be free for all!<br>
1.37 deraadt 2183: <p>
2184: <br>
2185: CHORUS<br>
2186: <br>
2187: <p>
2188: That's right!<br>
2189: I'll hang a lickin' on ya!<br>
2190: Never piss on another man's boot!<br>
2191: <br>
2192: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2193: <img height=1634 width=263 src="images/36song.gif"><br>
1.37 deraadt 2194: </td></tr></table>
2195: <p>
2196: <em>
2197: Vocals, Lyrics, Melody and Co-Arrangement by Ty Semaka - Guitar by
2198: Chantal Vitalis - Bass by Jonny Nordstrom - Drums by John McNiel,<br>
2199: Fiddle - Co-Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Jonathan Lewis of
1.112 deraadt 2200: Moxam Studios (<a mailto:moxamstudios@hotmail.com>moxamstudios@hotmail.com</a>).
1.37 deraadt 2201: <br>
2202: <br>
2203: </em>
2204:
2205: <hr>
1.30 deraadt 2206: <a name=35></a>
1.33 deraadt 2207: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="35.html">
2208: 3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a></font></h2>
1.30 deraadt 2209: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2210: <tr>
2211: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 2212: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.5 or other items]</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 2213: OpenBSD 3.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.55 tom 2214: uncompressed copy of this skit & song.<br>
1.30 deraadt 2215: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2216: 5:21 minutes
1.118 deraadt 2217: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song35.mp3">(MP3 9.7MB)</a>
2218: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song35.ogg">(OGG 6.8MB)</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 2219: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2220: <a href="images/Carp.gif">
2221: <img width=255 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Carp.gif"></a>
1.30 deraadt 2222: <br>
2223: <br>
2224: <em>
2225: A common theme used by the comedy crew Monty Python was to emphasize
2226: and exaggerate ridiculousnesses that their target had imposed upon
2227: themselves. Few things could be considered as humorous as making a
2228: redundancy protocol... redundant; e.g. being forced to replace it by
2229: Cisco lawyers and IETF policy.
2230: <p>
2231: We've been working a few years now on our packet filtering software
2232: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
2233: and it became time to add failover. We want to be able to set up pf
2234: firewalls side by side, and exchange the stateful information between
2235: them, so that in case of failure another could take over 'keep state'
2236: sessions. Our
2237: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>
2238: protocol solves this problem. However, on both sides of the firewall,
2239: it is also necessary to have all the regular hosts not see a
2240: network failure. The only reliable way to do this is for both
2241: firewall machines to have and use the same IP and MAC addresses. But
2242: the only real way to do that is to use multicast protocols.
2243: <p>
2244: The IETF community proposed work in this direction in the late
2245: 90's, however in 1997 Cisco informed them that they believed some of
2246: Cisco's patents covered the proposed IETF VRRP (Virtual Router
2247: Redundancy Protocol); on
2248: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO">
2249: March 20, 1998 they went further and specifically named their HSRP
2250: "Hot Standby Router Protocol" patent</a>. Reputedly, they were upset
2251: that IETF had not simply adopted the flawed HSRP protocol as the
2252: standard solution for this problem. Despite this legal pressure, the
2253: IETF community forged ahead and published VRRP as a standard even
2254: though there was a patent in the space. Why?
1.122 deraadt 2255: <a href="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/doc/ietf/vrrp/vrrp-minutes-97dec.txt">
1.30 deraadt 2256: There was much deliberation</a>
2257: at all levels of the IETF, and unfortunately for all of us the
2258: politicians within eventually decided to allow patented technology in
2259: standards -- as long as the patented technology is licensed under RAND
2260: (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) terms. As free software
2261: programmers, we therefore find ourselves in the position that these
2262: RAND standards must not be implemented by us, and we must deviate from
2263: the standard. We find all this rather Unreasonable and Discriminatory
2264: and we *will* design competing protocols. Some standards organization,
2265: eh?
2266: <p>
2267: Due to some HSRP flaws fixed by VRRP and for compatibility with the
2268: (HSRP-licensed) VRRP implementations of their competitors, Cisco in
2269: recent times has largely abandoned HSRP and now relies on VRRP instead
2270: -- a protocol designed for and by the community, but for which they
2271: claim patent rights.
2272: <p>
2273: On August 7 2002, after many communications, Robert Barr (Cisco's
2274: lawyer) firmly informed the OpenBSD community that Cisco would defend
2275: its patents for VRRP implementations -- meaning basically that it was
2276: impossible for a free software group to produce a truly free
2277: implementation of the IETF standard protocol. Perhaps this is because
2278: Cisco and Alcatel are currently engaged in a pair of patent lawsuits; a
2279: small piece of which is Cisco attempting to use the HSRP patent
2280: against Alcatel for their use of VRRP. Some IETF working group
2281: members took note of our complaints,
1.122 deraadt 2282: <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20061109082106/http://lists.microshaft.org/pipermail/dmca_discuss/2003-April/004702.html">
1.30 deraadt 2283: however an attempt in April 2003 to have the IETF abandon the use of
2284: patented technology failed to "reach consensus" in the IETF</a>.
2285: <p>
2286: A few years ago, the W3C, who designs our web protocols, tried to move
2287: to a RAND policy as well (primarily because of pressure from Microsoft
2288: and Apple), but the community outrage was so overpowering that they
2289: backed down. Some standards groups use this policy, while others
2290: avoid it -- the one differentiation being the amount of corporate
1.55 tom 2291: participation. In the IETF, the pro-RAND agents work for AT&T,
1.30 deraadt 2292: Alcatel, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and other large companies. Since IETF
2293: is an open forum, they can blend in as the populace, and vote just
2294: like all others, except against the community.
2295: <p>
2296: Translation: In failing to "reach consensus", the companies who
2297: benefit from RAND won, and the community lost again.
2298: <p>
2299: Left with little choice, we proceeded to reinvent the wheel or, more
2300: correctly, abandon the wheel entirely and go for a "hovercraft". We
2301: designed CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) to solve the same
2302: problem that these other protocols are designed for, but without the
2303: same technological basis as HSRP and VRRP. We read the patent
2304: document carefully and ensured that CARP was fundamentally different.
2305: We also avoided many of the flaws in HSRP and VRRP (such as an inherent
2306: lack of security). And since we are OpenBSD developers, we designed
2307: it to use cryptography.
2308: <p>
2309: The combination of
2310: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
2311: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>, and
2312: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a>
2313: has permitted us to build highly redundant firewalls. To date, we
2314: have built a few networks that include as many as 4 firewalls, all
2315: running random reboot cycles. As long as one firewall is alive in a
2316: group, traffic through them moves smoothly and correctly for all of
2317: our packet filter functionality. Cisco's low end products are unable
2318: to do this reliably, and if they have high end products which can do
2319: this, you most certainly cannot afford them.
2320: <p>
2321: As a final note of course, when we petitioned IANA, the IETF body
2322: regulating "official" internet protocol numbers, to give us numbers
2323: for CARP and pfsync our request was denied. Apparently we had failed
2324: to go through an official standards organization. Consequently we
2325: were forced to choose a protocol number which would not conflict with
2326: anything else of value, and decided to place CARP at IP protocol 112.
2327: We also placed pfsync at an open and unused number. We informed IANA of
2328: these decisions, but they declined to reply.
2329: <p>
2330: This ridiculous situation then inspired one of our developers to create
2331: this parody of the well-known Monty Python skit and song.
2332: <br>
2333: </em>
2334: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2335: <br>
2336: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2337: <br>
2338: <br>
2339: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2340: Hello, I would like to buy a CARP license please.
2341: <br>
2342: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2343: A what?
2344: <br>
2345: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2346: A license for my network redundancy protocol, CARP.
2347: <br>
2348: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2349: Well, it's free isn't it?
2350: <br>
2351: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2352: Exactly, the protocol's name is CARP. CARP the redundancy protocol.
2353: <br>
2354: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2355: What?
2356: <br>
2357: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2358: He is an.... redundancy protocol.
2359: <br>
2360: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2361: CARP is a free redundancy protocol!
2362: <br>
2363: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2364: Yes, I chose it out of three, I didn't like the others,
2365: they were all too... encumbered. And now I must license it!
2366: <br>
2367: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2368: You must be a looney.
2369: <br>
2370: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2371: I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely
2372: because I wish to protect my redundancy protocol? I've heard tell
2373: that Network Associates has a pet algorithm called RSA used in IETF
2374: standards, and you wouldn't call them a looney; Geoworks has a claim
2375: on WAP, after what their lawyers do to you if you try to implement it.
2376: Cisco has two redundant patents, both encumbered, and Cadtrack has a
2377: patent on cursor movement! So, if you're calling the large American
2378: companies that fork out millions of dollars for the use of XOR a
2379: bunch of looneys, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
2380: <br>
2381: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2382: Alright, alright, alright. A license.
2383: <br>
2384: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2385: Yes.
2386: <br>
2387: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2388: For a free redundancy protocol?
2389: <br>
2390: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2391: Yes.
2392: <br>
2393: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2394: You are a looney.
2395: <br>
2396: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2397: Look, it allows for bleeding redundancy doesn't it? Cisco's got a
2398: patent for the HSRP, and I've got to get a license for me router
2399: VRRP.
2400: <br>
2401: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2402: You don't need a license for your VRRP.
2403: <br>
2404: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1.32 otto 2405: I bleeding well do and I got one. It can't be called VRRP without it.
1.30 deraadt 2406: <br>
2407: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2408: There's no such thing as a bloody VRRP license.
2409: <br>
2410: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2411: Yes there is!
2412: <br>
2413: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2414: Isn't!
2415: <br>
2416: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2417: Is!
2418: <br>
2419: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2420: Isn't!
2421: <br>
2422: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2423: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
2424: <br>
2425: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2426: This is a Cisco HSRP patent document with the word "Cisco" crossed
2427: out and the word "IETF" written in in crayon.
2428: <br>
2429: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2430: The man didn't have the right form.
2431: <br>
2432: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2433: What man?
2434: <br>
2435: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2436: Robert Barr, the man from the redundancy detector van.
2437: <br>
2438: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2439: The looney detector van, you mean.
2440: <br>
2441: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2442: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
2443: <br>
2444: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2445: What redundancy detector van?
2446: <br>
2447: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2448: The redundancy detector van from the Monopoly of Cizzz-coeee.
2449: <br>
2450: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2451: Cizzz-coeee?
2452: <br>
2453: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2454: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant! I never seen
2455: so many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could
2456: pinpoint a failover configuration at 400 yards! And my Cisco router,
2457: being such a flappy bat, was a piece of cake.
2458: <br>
2459: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1.34 otto 2460: How much did you pay for that?
1.30 deraadt 2461: <br>
2462: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2463: Sixty quid, and twenty grand for the PIX.
2464: <br>
2465: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2466: What PIX?
2467: <br>
2468: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2469: The PIX I'm replacing!
2470: <br>
2471: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2472: So you're replacing your PIX with free software, and yet you want to
2473: license it?
2474: <br>
2475: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2476: There's nothing so odd about that. I'm sure they patented this
2477: protocol too. After all, the IETF had a hand in it!
2478: <br>
2479: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2480: No they didn't!
2481: <br>
2482: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2483: Did!
2484: <br>
2485: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2486: Didn't!
2487: <br>
2488: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2489: Did, did, did and did!
2490: <br>
2491: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2492: Oh, all right.
2493: <br>
2494: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2495: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a CARP
2496: license?
2497: <br>
2498: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2499: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
2500: <br>
2501: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2502: In that case, give me a Firewall License.
2503: <br>
2504: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2505: A license?
2506: <br>
2507: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2508: Yes.
2509: <br>
2510: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2511: For your firewall?
2512: <br>
2513: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2514: No.
2515: <br>
2516: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2517: No?
2518: <br>
2519: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2520: No, half my firewall. It had an accident.
2521: <br>
2522: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
2523: You're off your chump.
2524: <br>
2525: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
2526: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquialism
1.43 deraadt 2527: to imply that my sanity is not entirely up to scratch, or indeed to deny the
1.30 deraadt 2528: semi-existence of my little half firewall, I shall have to ask you to
2529: listen to this! Take it away CARP the orchestra leader!
2530: <br>
2531: <br>
2532: A zero... one.. A one zero one one<br>
2533: <br>
2534: VRRP, philosophically,<br>
2535: must ipso facto standard be<br>
2536: But standard it<br>
2537: needs to be free<br>
2538: vis a vis<br>
2539: the IETF<br>
2540: you see?<br>
2541: <br>
2542: But can VRRP<br>
2543: be said to be<br>
2544: or not to be<br>
2545: a standard, see,<br>
2546: when VRRP can not be free,<br>
2547: due to some Cisco patentry..<br>
2548: <br>
2549: Singing...<br>
2550: <br>
2551: La Dee Dee, 1, 2, 3.<br>
2552: VRRP ain't free.<br>
2553: O P E N B S D<br>
2554: CARP is free<br>
2555: <br>
2556: Is this wretched Cisco-eze<br>
2557: let through IETF to mean<br>
2558: my firewall must pay legal fees?<br>
2559: No! CARP and PF are Free!<br>
2560: <br>
2561: Fiddle dee dum,<br>
2562: Fiddle dee dee,<br>
2563: CARP and PF are free.<br>
2564: <br>
2565: 1 1 2,<br>
2566: Tee Hee Hee,<br>
2567: CARP and PF are free.<br>
2568: <br>
2569: My firewall just keeps running, see,<br>
2570: bisected accidentally,<br>
2571: one summer afternoon by me.<br>
2572: Redundancy's good when free.<br>
2573: <br>
2574: Redundancy must be free.<br>
2575: Redundancy must be free.<br>
2576: <br>
2577: The End<br>
2578: <br>
2579: Under the Geddy Lee?<br>
2580: <br>
2581: No, Redundancy must be free!<br>
2582: <br>
2583: Geddy must be free.<br>
2584: <br>
2585: <br>
2586: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2587: <img height=1800 width=360 src="images/35song.gif"><br>
1.30 deraadt 2588: </td></tr></table>
2589: <p>
2590: <em>
2591: <font color="#00b000">"CARP License"</font> sketch:<br>
2592: Tony Binns as the Customer, Peter Rumpel as the Licenser.
2593: <br>
1.34 otto 2594: <font color="#00b000">"Redundancy must be free"</font> song:<br>
1.30 deraadt 2595: Lead vocal by Peter Rumpel, backing vocals by Jonathan Lewis and Ty Semaka.
1.37 deraadt 2596: Piano by Janet Lewis, acoustic guitars by Chantal Vitalis.<br>
1.30 deraadt 2597: Bass and Geddy Lee questioning by Jonathan Lewis.
2598: Lyrics by Bob Beck.<br>
2599: <br>
2600: <br>
2601: </em>
2602:
2603: <hr>
1.20 deraadt 2604: <a name=34></a>
1.33 deraadt 2605: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="34.html">
2606: 3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a></font></h2>
1.20 deraadt 2607: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2608: <tr>
2609: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 2610: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.4 or other items]</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 2611: OpenBSD 3.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2612: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2613: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2614: 3:30 minutes
1.118 deraadt 2615: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song34.mp3">(MP3 7.0MB)</a>
2616: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song34.ogg">(OGG 5.1MB)</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 2617: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2618: <a href="images/Hood.gif">
2619: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puffy Hood" src="images/Hood.gif"></a>
1.20 deraadt 2620: <br>
2621: <br>
2622: <em>
2623: Join Puffy Hood and his Funny Fish as they take on
1.26 deraadt 2624: the Sheriff (an unelected leader) and other evil
1.20 deraadt 2625: forces of the draconian government!
2626: <p>
2627: <br>
2628: As we did for the 3.3 release, we have once again tried
2629: making release artwork and music which are allegorical
2630: of recent happenings.
2631: <p>
2632: Two years ago we became involved with the University
2633: of Pennsylvania and DARPA, who were funding us to do
2634: security research and development .. on things that
2635: we were already intending to do. We provided ideas,
2636: wrote papers, and deployed cutting-edge technology;
2637: DARPA provided finances and reaped a share of the
2638: credit, and the University of Pennsylvania acted as
2639: a middle-man. We accepted funding based on the
2640: promise that our freedom to operate as we wished
2641: was unaffected. To us, freedom is more important
1.21 deraadt 2642: than funding -- heck, we were dealing with the evil
1.20 deraadt 2643: forces of government, and needed to be careful.
2644: <p>
2645: A few months prior to this release, DARPA suddenly
2646: and without warning decided to withdraw that funding;
2647: they also aggressively backed out of contractual
2648: obligations. Many articles in the <a href=press.html>press</a> followed regarding
1.67 jolan 2649: this sudden maneuver. Apparently this hoopla happened
1.20 deraadt 2650: because an OpenBSD-related article in the Canadian
1.55 tom 2651: newspaper The Globe & Mail had quoted Theo de Raadt
1.20 deraadt 2652: making anti-war statements regarding Iraq and the
2653: theft of oil.
2654: <p>
2655: The only answer given (to major media reporters) by a
2656: DARPA spokesperson (Jan Walker) was this:
2657: <p>
2658: "As a result of the DARPA review of the
2659: project, and due to world events and the evolving
2660: threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states,
2661: the Government on April 21 advised the University
2662: to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of
2663: the project."
2664: <p>
2665: That almost toes the line of calling us terrorists!
2666: We had lost financial support, but the release of the
2667: statement above suddenly made us very happy to be free
2668: of any perceived obligation to such crazy people.
2669: <p>
2670: Since the termination came near natural contract
2671: termination (about 4 months remained), less damage
2672: than expected was sustained by the project. Sponsors
2673: stepped forward and helped us make up the missing funds
2674: we needed to run our "Hackathon", and the event
1.61 grunk 2675: proceeded as planned. We even had T-shirts made with
1.20 deraadt 2676: "Workstations of Mass Development" artwork for those
2677: developers who attended (sorry, they are not for sale).
2678: <p>
2679: We could not make stories like this up. So instead,
2680: we are making up an allegory about it, using the tale
2681: of Robin Hood.
2682: </em>
2683: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
2684: <br>
2685: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2686: <br>
2687: Sir Puffy of Ramsay was a wandrin'<br>
2688: Through forests of seaweed all alone<br>
2689: He had found the crusades<br>
2690: were an endless charade<br>
2691: So for now he called Nothing Hack home<br>
2692: <br>
2693: <br>
2694: One day he met Little Bob of Beckley<br>
2695: Beat him fair on a log-in by staff<br>
2696: Clever chums they did find<br>
2697: other fish of their kind<br>
2698: Thwarting evil with humppa and math<br>
2699: <br>
2700: <br>
2701: Now trouble was a brewin' when the Good King was away<br>
2702: The Sheriff came a callin' for the poor to pay<br>
2703: With CD's and their freedom<br>
2704: for to share online<br>
2705: And burning down the village cause he was a slime<br>
2706: <br>
2707: <br>
2708: So Puffy and his buddies took the booty from the rich<br>
2709: and turned it into a system to protect poor fish<br>
2710: Sent out by Hook or a Wim<br>
2711: to the teaming schools<br>
2712: Town cryers were on fire cause the crypto ruled!<br>
2713: <br>
2714: <br>
2715: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2716: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2717: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2718: So raise up your glass and<br>
2719: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2720: Fish for never running<br>
2721: and making something good!<br>
2722: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2723: <br>
2724: <br>
2725: Aaaw! Word to the sea y'all<br>
2726: The Hood's a bad ball<br>
2727: Ya underneath he's a heathen and a traitor<br>
2728: He can take from you all and say "later!"<br>
2729: Think he's a hero?<br>
2730: Naw he ain't lovin' ya<br>
1.24 deraadt 2731: He gettin' richer than Bill Gates and Dubya<br>
1.20 deraadt 2732: Read the Wanted poster<br>
2733: of Sheriff Plac-o-derm fool<br>
2734: We gettin' back the booty<br>
2735: or we take away your worms too<br>
2736: <br>
2737: <br>
2738: Yo! Word to the classes<br>
2739: Put on your glasses<br>
2740: I guess the Sheriff is King till this passes<br>
2741: Times are a changin' and movin' so fast<br>
2742: He says "Give me your freedom,<br>
2743: I'll grasp it and pass it to brass<br>
2744: who can hash it for weapons of massive distraction.<br>
2745: And hand me the bastards that brashly amassed from the cash<br>
2746: happy faction of oily and gassy co-action".<br>
2747: No! Don't hand em dick, grab a stick, keep attacking for freedom<br>
2748: and hack till the King cometh back and leave em'<br>
2749: <br>
2750: <br>
2751: Then trouble was a rollin' with an army on the run<br>
1.25 deraadt 2752: The Sheriff came a callin' for the spikey one<br>
1.20 deraadt 2753: And took back all the booty<br>
2754: Puff intended for the poor<br>
2755: The Arch-a-thon went on despite the mighty roar<br>
2756: <br>
2757: <br>
2758: Puff snuck into the castle, and found the treasure hill<br>
2759: And also found Maid Marlin held against her will<br>
2760: He loaded all the loot<br>
2761: to give it back and big surprise<br>
2762: He took the maiden too, 'cause she was easy on the eyes<br>
2763: <br>
2764: <br>
2765: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
2766: They called it "BSD"!<br>
2767: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
2768: So raise up your glass and<br>
2769: three cheers to the Funny<br>
2770: Fish for never running<br>
2771: and making something good!<br>
2772: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
2773: <br>
2774:
2775: <br>
2776: <br>
2777: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2778: <img height=1440 width=263 src="images/34song.gif"><br>
1.20 deraadt 2779: </td></tr></table>
2780: <p>
2781: <em>
2782: Music, Co-arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Drum Programming,
2783: Bass, Organ, and Violin by Jonathan Lewis.
2784: <br>
2785: Co-Arrangement, Lyrics, and Main Vocals by Ty Semaka.
2786: <br>
2787: Back-vocals by Bob Beck, Calvin Beck, Theo de Raadt, Alan Kolodziejzyk,
1.55 tom 2788: Jonathan Lewis & Peter Valchev.
1.20 deraadt 2789: <br>
2790: Rap #1 by Richard Sixto.
2791: Guitar by Chantal Vitalis.
2792: <br>
2793: </em>
2794:
1.23 jose 2795: <br>
2796: <hr>
1.11 deraadt 2797: <a name=33></a>
1.33 deraadt 2798: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="33.html">
2799: 3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2800: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2801: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 2802: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.33 deraadt 2803: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.3 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2804: OpenBSD 3.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2805: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2806: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2807: 4:00 minutes
1.118 deraadt 2808: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song33.mp3">(MP3 7.5MB)</a>
2809: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song33.ogg">(OGG 3.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2810: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2811: <a href="images/Barbarian.gif">
2812: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puff the Barbarian" src="images/Barbarian.gif"></a>
1.12 deraadt 2813: <br>
2814: <br>
1.14 deraadt 2815: <em>
1.69 deraadt 2816: Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to
2817: face some pretty crazy challenges.
1.12 deraadt 2818: <br>
1.69 deraadt 2819: This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties
2820: we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our
2821: request for documentation about their UltraSPARC
2822: III processors. We want documentation, because
2823: these are the fastest processors with a per-page
2824: eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support
2825: our new W^X security feature. In the meantime,
2826: the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and
2827: this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit
1.36 deraadt 2828: mode.<br>
2829: <br>
2830: And it is going to be faster...<br>
1.12 deraadt 2831: </em>
1.11 deraadt 2832: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2833: Deep through the mists of time<br>
2834: Gaze to the crystal ball<br>
2835: Back to the age of darkness<br>
2836: Black was the protocol<br>
2837: <p>
2838: A King ruled the web with fear<br>
2839: Spilling the blood of men<br>
2840: Then from the ocean came<br>
2841: Puff the Barbarian<br>
1.17 deraadt 2842: <br>
2843: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2844: Born in a tiny bowl Puff was a pet<br>
2845: Sold into slav-er-y by the man<br>
2846: Eating the weeds till he was strong enough<br>
2847: Breaking his bonds like nobody can<br>
2848: <p>
2849: Down the sewer pipes of Hell<br>
2850: A thousand kitties then did bleed<br>
2851: Constraints were slain as well<br>
2852: Hacked his way out to the C<br>
2853: <p>
2854: And there he found<br>
2855: His destiny<br>
2856: Hammer of the Ocean God<br>
2857: "Xor taking care of me"<br>
2858: <p>
2859: Then in a dream Xor requested he<br>
2860: "Go to the Sun King, get what I yearn<br>
2861: Kernighan saw it, prophet of the C<br>
2862: Knowledge - so they may never return"<br>
2863: <p>
2864: At the tower Puff appealed<br>
2865: For the wisdom of the One<br>
2866: Denied, his mind did reel<br>
2867: Puff was getting tired of Sun<br>
2868: <p>
2869: Broke down the guard<br>
2870: Cause math is hard<br>
1.18 deraadt 2871: Saw McNealy on his throne<br>
1.11 deraadt 2872: All alone and only bones<br>
2873: <p>
2874: Come the Sun King blade ablur<br>
2875: Hammer down eclipse the Sun<br>
2876: And Puff, the land secured<br>
2877: The new King Barbarian!<br>
2878: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 2879: <img height=640 width=260 src="images/33song.gif"><br>
1.11 deraadt 2880: </td></tr></table>
2881: <p>
2882: <em>
2883: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka.
2884: Co-arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
2885: <br>
2886: Vocals by DeVille, guitar by Sean Desmond, bass by Ian Knox,
2887: drums by John McNiel, violin by Jonathan Lewis.
2888: </em>
2889:
2890: <br>
2891: <hr>
1.9 millert 2892: <a name=32></a>
1.33 deraadt 2893: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="32.html">
2894: 3.2: "Goldflipper"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2895: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2896: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 2897: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.33 deraadt 2898: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.2 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2899: OpenBSD 3.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2900: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2901: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2902: 3:00 minutes
1.118 deraadt 2903: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song32.mp3">(MP3 2.5MB)</a>
2904: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song32.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2905: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2906: <a href="images/MrPond.gif">
2907: <img height=313 width=255 alt="Mr Pond" src="images/MrPond.gif"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2908: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.9 millert 2909: Goldflipper<br>
2910: With golden skin<br>
2911: and flippers as sharp as a knife<br>
2912: He's the machine<br>
2913: Designed to dismember your life<br>
2914: <p>
2915: And the fish<br>
2916: Protecting us all from the cat<br>
2917: And the cat<br>
2918: Infecting the wo-orld for a laugh<br>
2919: <p>
2920: Cyborg on a mission<br>
2921: To do some Puff fishin'<br>
2922: The doctor wants fugu tonight!<br>
2923: <p>
2924: (short instrumental intro)
1.1 deraadt 2925: <p>
1.9 millert 2926: You'll need some machismo to<br>
2927: catch the spikey one<br>
2928: He's got guts and gizmos to<br>
2929: make the system run<br>
1.1 deraadt 2930: <p>
1.9 millert 2931: But Flip's here for fun<br>
2932: and without a gun<br>
2933: He'll dice you with his Golden fin<br>
1.1 deraadt 2934: <p>
1.9 millert 2935: She's all over Puff cause he's<br>
2936: such a sexy catch<br>
2937: Is she spying on him or<br>
2938: just a seafood match?<br>
1.1 deraadt 2939: <p>
1.9 millert 2940: Oh double seven<br>
2941: Send me to Heaven<br>
2942: Cause for Mr. Po-o-o-ond<br>
1.1 deraadt 2943: <p>
1.9 millert 2944: The women are fond<br>
2945: She knows what to do<br>
2946: She'll turn Gold to goo<br>
1.1 deraadt 2947: <p>
1.9 millert 2948: Goldflipper is gone<br>
2949: Gold flipper's goooooooooooooone<br>
1.11 deraadt 2950: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
2951: <br>
2952: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 2953: <p>
2954: <em>
1.9 millert 2955: Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.1 deraadt 2956: <br>
1.9 millert 2957: Base & drum programming, recording, mixing & mastering by
2958: Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by Onalea Gilbertson. Sax by Dan Meichel.
2959: Trumpet & Trombone by Craig Soby.
1.1 deraadt 2960: </em>
2961:
2962: <br>
2963: <hr>
1.3 ian 2964: <a name=31></a>
1.33 deraadt 2965: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="31.html">
2966: 3.1: "Systemagic"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 2967: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
2968: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 2969: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.33 deraadt 2970: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.1 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2971: OpenBSD 3.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
2972: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
2973: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2974: 3:00 minutes
1.118 deraadt 2975: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song31.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
2976: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song31.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 2977: <br>
1.76 deraadt 2978: <a href="images/Systemagic.jpg">
2979: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Systemagic" src="images/Systemagic.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 2980: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2981: BSD fight buffer reign<br>
2982: Flowing blood in circuit vein<br>
2983: Quagmire, Hellfire, RAMhead Count<br>
2984: Puffy rip attacker out<br>
2985: <p>
2986: Crackin' ze bathroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
2987: Tale of the script, HEY! Secure by default<br>
2988: <p>
2989: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2990: Über tragic<br>
2991: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
2992: <p>
2993: Sexty second, black cat struck<br>
2994: Breeding worm of crypto-suck<br>
2995: Hot rod box unt hunting wake<br>
2996: Vampire omellete, kitten cake<br>
1.11 deraadt 2997: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 2998: <p>
2999: Crackin' ze boardroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
3000: Rippin' ze bat, HEY! Secure by default<br>
3001: <p>
3002: Chorus
3003: <p>
3004: Cybersluts vit undead guts<br>
3005: Transyl-viral coffin muck<br>
3006: Penguin lurking under bed<br>
3007: Puffy hoompa on your head<br>
3008: <p>
3009: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
3010: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
3011: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
3012: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
3013: <p>
3014: Chorus<br>
1.11 deraadt 3015: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 3016: <p>
3017: <em>
1.3 ian 3018: Produced & Directed by Ty Semaka and Ian Knox.
1.1 deraadt 3019: Written, Arranged and Performed by Ty Semaka (vocals, lyrics), Ian Knox (bass,
3020: drum programming), and Sean Desmond (guitar).
3021: <br>
1.3 ian 3022: Recorded & Mixed at Ruffmix Audio Productions (Calgary) by Kelly Mihalicz.
1.1 deraadt 3023: <br>
3024: Mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
3025: </em>
3026:
1.8 millert 3027: <br>
3028: <hr>
1.9 millert 3029: <a name=30></a>
1.33 deraadt 3030: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="30.html">
3031: 3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 3032: <p>
3033: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
3034: <tr>
1.123 deraadt 3035: <td valign="top" width="30%">
1.33 deraadt 3036: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.0 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 3037: OpenBSD 3.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
3038: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
3039: <br>
1.76 deraadt 3040: 3:00 minutes
1.118 deraadt 3041: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song30.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
3042: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/songs/song30.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 3043: <br>
1.76 deraadt 3044: <a href="images/Rock.jpg">
3045: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Rock" src="images/Rock.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 3046: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 3047: <br>
3048: <br>
1.9 millert 3049: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
3050: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
1.8 millert 3051: <p>
1.9 millert 3052: During these hostile and trying times and what-not<br>
3053: OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense<br>
1.8 millert 3054: <p>
1.9 millert 3055: I'm secure by default<br>
1.8 millert 3056: <p>
1.27 deraadt 3057: They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety<br>
1.9 millert 3058: deserve neither liberty nor safety<br>
1.8 millert 3059: <p>
1.9 millert 3060: RELEASE TIME!!!!<br>
1.8 millert 3061: <p>
1.16 deraadt 3062: Stay off, stay off, stay off...<br>
1.9 millert 3063: I'm secure by default<br>
3064: stay off, stay off, stay off<br>
1.8 millert 3065: <br>
1.11 deraadt 3066: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.8 millert 3067: <br>
1.11 deraadt 3068: </td></tr></table>
3069: <p>
1.8 millert 3070: <em>
1.9 millert 3071: By The Plaid Tongued Devils. Produced & Arranged by Ty Semaka & Wynn Gogol.
3072: <br>
3073: Written & Performed by Gordon Chipp Robb (bass line),
1.35 nick 3074: John McNiel (drums), Ty Semaka (vocals & lyrics), and Wynn Gogol (programming).
1.9 millert 3075: <br>
3076: Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Wynn Gogol of Workshop Recording Studios (Victoria BC).
1.8 millert 3077: <br>
1.9 millert 3078: Check out <a href="http://www.thedevils.com">http://www.thedevils.com</a>
1.8 millert 3079: </em>
3080:
1.1 deraadt 3081: <hr>
1.79 deraadt 3082: <a href="index.html"><img height="24" width="24" src="back.gif" border="0" alt="OpenBSD"></a>
3083: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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1.79 deraadt 3085:
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