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1.3 ian 18: <h2><font color="#e00000">Release Songs</font></h2><hr>
1.1 deraadt 19:
1.20 deraadt 20: <p>
1.71 deraadt 21: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
22: <tr>
1.72 deraadt 23: <td valign="top" width="45%">
1.81 deraadt 24: <a href="#41">4.1: Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors<br>
25: <a href="#40">4.0: Humppa Negala</a> and
26: <a href="#audio_extra">OpenVOX (extra track)</a><br>
1.72 deraadt 27: <a href="#39">3.9: "Blob!"</a><br>
28: <a href="#38">3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a><br>
29: <a href="#37">3.7: "The Wizard of OS"</a><br>
30: <a href="#36">3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a><br>
31: <a href="#35">3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a><br>
32: <a href="#34">3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a><br>
33: <a href="#33">3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a><br>
34: <a href="#32">3.2: "Goldflipper"</a><br>
35: <a href="#31">3.1: "Systemagic"</a><br>
36: <a href="#30">3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a><br>
37: </td><td valign="top" width="1%">
1.71 deraadt 38: <br>
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1.71 deraadt 42: </a>
43: The 3.0 - 4.0 songs are available on an Audio CD celebrating
44: 10 years of OpenBSD releases.
45: <br>
46: <br>
1.76 deraadt 47: An <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
48: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") is included which details
49: the process of making the art and music each release.
1.71 deraadt 50: <br clear=all>
1.72 deraadt 51: <br>
1.71 deraadt 52: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
1.72 deraadt 53: Order an Audio CDROM from our International site</a><br>
1.71 deraadt 54: <a href="https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order.eu?CDA1=1&CDA1=Add">
1.72 deraadt 55: Order an Audio CDROM from our European site</a><br>
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1.20 deraadt 57: <p>
58:
59: <hr>
1.81 deraadt 60: <a name=41></a>
61: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="41.html">
62: 4.1: "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors"</a></font></h2>
63: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
64: <tr>
65: <td valign="top" width="33%">
66: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.1 or other items]</a><br>
67: OpenBSD 4.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
68: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
69: <br>
70: 4:19 minutes
71: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.mp3">(MP3 4.1MB)</a>
72: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song41.ogg">(OGG 8.3MB)</a><br>
73: <br>
74: <a href="images/PuffyBaba.jpg">
75: <img width=227 height=343 alt="PuffyBaba" src="images/PuffyBaba.jpg"></a>
76: <br>
77: <br>
78: <em>
79: As developers of a free operating system, one of our prime responsibilities
80: is device support. No matter how nice an operating system is, it remains
81: useless and unusable without solid support for a wide percentage of the
82: hardware that is available on the market. It is therefore rather unsurprising
83: that more than half of our efforts focus on various aspects relating to
84: device support.
85: <p>
1.85 mbalmer 86: Most parts of the operating system (from low kernel, through to libraries,
1.81 deraadt 87: all the way up to X, and then even to applications) use fairly obvious
88: interface layers, where the "communication protocols" or "argument passing"
89: mechanisms (ie. APIs) can be understood by any developer who takes the
90: time to read the free code. Device drivers pose an additional and significant
91: challenge though: because many vendors refuse to document the exact behavior
92: of their devices. The devices are black boxes. And often they are surprisingly
93: weird, or even buggy.
94: <p>
95: When vendor documentation does not exist, the development process can
96: become extremely hairy. Groups of developers have found themselves focused
97: for months at a time, figuring out the most simple steps, simply because
98: the hardware is a complete mystery. Access to documentation can ease
99: these difficulties rapidly. However, getting access to the chip documentation
100: from vendors is ... almost always a negotiation. If we had open access to
1.84 matthieu 101: documentation, anyone would be able to see how simple all these devices
1.81 deraadt 102: actually are, and device driver development would flourish (and not just in
103: OpenBSD, either).
104: <p>
105: When we proceed into negotiations with vendors, asking for documentation,
106: our position is often weak. One would assume that the modern market is fair,
107: and that selling chips would be the primary focus of these vendors. But
108: unfortunately a number of behemoth software vendors have spent the last 10 or
109: 20 years building
1.83 wvdputte 110: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00024.html">
1.81 deraadt 111: political hurdles against the smaller players</a>.
112: <p>
1.82 jsg 113: A particularly nasty player in this regard has been the Linux vendors and
1.87 ! tom 114: some Linux developers, who have played along with an American corporate model
1.81 deraadt 115: of requiring NDAs for chip documentation. This has effectively put Linux
116: into the club with Microsoft, but has left all the other operating system
117: communities -- and their developers -- with much less available clout for
118: requesting documentation. In a more fair world, the Linux vendors would
119: work with us, and the device driver support in all free operating systems
120: would be fantastic by now.
121: <p>
122: We only ask that
1.83 wvdputte 123: <a href="papers/brhard2007/mgp00027.html">
1.81 deraadt 124: users help</a> us in changing the political landscape.
125: </em>
126: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
127: <br>
128: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
129: <br>
130: Here's an old story ...<br>
131: <br>
132: <br>
133: Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors<br>
134: We all know the details<br>
135: Magic cave, magic words, some thieves,<br>
136: some serious loot,<br>
137: and lucky - Mister - Baba<br>
138: Who got a bad rap if you ask me<br>
139: The little guy who<br>
140: did the best with what he had<br>
141: <br>
142: <br>
143: Here are Mr. Baba's lessons<br>
144: Load one ass, take a few trips and spend<br>
145: in moderation<br>
146: Three things the average man can't - get - right<br>
147: <br>
148: <br>
149: If you know your brother is a greedy bastard<br>
150: never give him the password<br>
151: If he goes penguin on you,<br>
152: stop - being - his brother.<br>
153: When a cave is guarded by magic lawyers<br>
1.86 tom 154: A sea of blood will be its doormat<br>
1.81 deraadt 155: So do the best with what you have<br>
156: <br>
157: <br>
158: Beyond the lessons - you must know this<br>
159: that the Devil is as real as your address<br>
160: But unlike Vendors,<br>
161: he at least keeps the door open<br>
162: <br>
163: <br>
164: Vendors of water that should be free<br>
165: Look upon their words and despair<br>
166: Their badvertising made a thief of my brother<br>
167: then made him better off dead<br>
168: Now he hasn't got shit to do his best with<br>
169: <br>
170: <br>
171: Gratis. Free. Libre. Cuffo.<br>
172: The companies of thieves stole every good adjective<br>
173: and left us with open source (sores)<br>
174: sharing smaller and smaller bandages<br>
175: for each consecutive cut<br>
176: But with the salty water of labour<br>
177: parched desert becomes pregnant black soil<br>
178: <br>
179: <br>
180: It's not whether you're well off<br>
181: it's where you dig the well<br>
182: The best the little guy can do is what<br>
183: the little guy does right<br>
184: <br>
185: <br>
186: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
187: <img width=396 height=1904 src="images/41song.gif"><br>
188: </td></tr></table>
189: <p>
190: <em>
191: CD 2 track 2 is an audio track entitled "Puffy Baba and the 40 Vendors".
192: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios
193: (1-403-233-0350). Voice by Richard Sixto. Lyrics by Ty Semaka.
194: <br>
195: <br>
196: </em>
197:
198: <hr>
1.76 deraadt 199: <a name=audio_extra></a>
200: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="items.html#audio">
201: "OpenVOX"</a></font></h2>
202: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
203: <tr>
204: <td valign="top" width="33%">
205: <a href="orders.html">[Order the OpenBSD audio CD or other items]</a><br>
206: These are the lyrics for the extra track on the OpenBSD Audio CD.<br>
207: <br>
208: 4:00 minutes
209: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.mp3">(MP3 3.9MB)</a>
210: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/songty.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
211: <br>
212: <img height=158 width=158 hspace="5" src="images/cdaudio-m.gif">
213: <br>
214: <br>
215: <em>
216: This is an <a href="#audio_extra">extra track</a> by the artist Ty Semaka
217: (who really has "had Puffy on his mind") which we included on the audio CD.
218: <p>
219: This song details the process that Ty has to go through to make the art
220: and music for each OpenBSD release.
221: Ty and Theo really do go to a (very specific) bar and discuss what is
222: going on in the project, and then try to find a theme that will work...
223: </em>
224: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
225: <br>
226: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
227: Be Open<br>
228: Be Vocal<br>
229: Stay Open<br>
230: Stay Vocal<br>
231: <br>
232: (repeat)<br>
233: <br>
234: OpenBSD<br>
235: <br>
236: Twice a year,<br>
237: me an' Theo Theorize over beer<br>
238: at the Ship and outhip all the misers<br>
239: and take strips out of liars.<br>
240: He sits me down and he tries to explain:<br>
241: He says "The badabadabingabanger<br>
242: button on the raidorama cuttin'<br>
1.78 deraadt 243: on the systematicalifornication<br>
1.76 deraadt 244: and a license application<br>
245: is a fishybomination<br>
246: and a random allocation<br>
247: got a copywritten melanoma<br>
248: sasafrazzin' wireless device".<br>
249: OK stop.<br>
250: I get it.<br>
251: Some asshole lied.<br>
252: <br>
253: And then he says,<br>
1.78 deraadt 254: "The crashorama villaination<br>
1.76 deraadt 255: lawyerific pornication threatifies<br>
256: the only honest hackerammerunderider<br>
257: in the cyber cider documation<br>
258: universal anagrama-attic (I'm outta here)<br>
259: cohabitationizizingation"<br>
260: OK stop.<br>
261: I get it.<br>
262: <a href="http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/summit2006/james_ketrenos.pdf">
263: Some asshole said he was "open"<br>
264: but he was only open for business.<br></a>
265: I get it.<br>
266: Where's my pencils?<br>
267: Bring me my mic!<br>
268: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
269: Be Open<br>
270: Be Vocal<br>
271: Stay Open<br>
272: Stay Vocal<br>
273: <br>
274: (repeat)<br>
275: <br>
276: Then he has another beer and<br>
277: gets all, you know, pushy.<br>
278: Make Puffy kill pussies?<br>
279: And too much thinkin' and kitchen sinkin'<br>
280: the drawings or toons I should say,<br>
281: where a fish can talk, be an agent<br>
282: a hit man or walk, and ride horses<br>
283: and forces my hand to make Puffy a spy<br>
284: or a cowboy, or WHY a little girl, in a dream<br>
285: and fake Floyd as the theme?<br>
286: And squeeze in five concepts<br>
287: every time, every song!<br>
288: And the geeks and Theo lose it<br>
289: if I draw the device wrong!<br>
290: "It's four little buttons not five Ty"<br>
291: And pretty soon I'll be losing my mind<br>
292: cause it's a f@#!kin' cartoon!<br>
293: <br>
294: (beat boxin')<br>
295: <br>
296: <br>
297: </td></tr></table>
298: <p>
299: <em>
300: <br>
301: </em>
302:
303: <hr>
304: <a name=40></a>
305: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="40.html">
306: 4.0: "Humppa Negala"</a></font></h2>
307: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
308: <tr>
309: <td valign="top" width="33%">
310: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 4.0 or other items]</a><br>
311: OpenBSD 4.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
312: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
313: <br>
314: 2:40 minutes
315: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.mp3">(MP3 2.3MB)</a>
316: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song40.ogg">(OGG 3.6MB)</a><br>
317: <br>
318: <a href="images/Pufferix.jpg">
319: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Pufferix" src="images/Pufferix.jpg"></a>
320: <br>
321: <br>
322: <em>
323: The last 10 years, every 6 month period has (without fail)
1.77 deraadt 324: resulted in an official OpenBSD release making it to the FTP
1.76 deraadt 325: servers. But CDs are also manufactured, which the project
1.77 deraadt 326: sells to continue our development goals.
1.76 deraadt 327: <br>
328: <br>
329: While tests of the release binaries are done by developers
1.77 deraadt 330: around the world, Theo and some developers from Calgary
331: or Edmonton (such as Peter Valchev or Bob Beck) test that
1.76 deraadt 332: the discs are full of (only) correct code. Ty Semaka works for
333: approximately two months to design and draw artwork that will fit
334: the designated theme, and coordinates with his music buddies to
335: write and record a song that also matches the theme.
336: <br>
337: <br>
338: Then the discs and all the artwork gets delivered to the plant,
339: so that they can be pressed in time for an official release date.
340: <br>
341: <br>
342: This release, instead of bemoaning vendors or organizations that
343: try to make our task of writing free software more difficult, we
344: instead celebrate the 10 years that we have been given (so far) to
345: write free software, express our themes in art, and the 5 years
346: that we have made music with a group of talented musicians.
1.77 deraadt 347: <br>
348: <br>
1.76 deraadt 349: OpenBSD developers have been torturing each other for years now
350: with Humppa-style music, so this release our users get a taste
1.77 deraadt 351: of this too. Sometimes at hackathons you will hear the same
352: songs being played on multiple laptops, out of sync. It is
353: under such duress that much of our code gets written.
1.76 deraadt 354: <br>
355: <br>
356: We feel like Pufferix and Bobilix delivering The Three Discs of
357: Freedom to those who want them whenever the need arises, then
358: returning to celebrate the (unlocked) source tree with all the
359: other developers.
360: </em>
361: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
362: <br>
363: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
364: <br>
365: <br>
366: <br>
367: Humppa negala<br>
368: Humppa negala<br>
369: Humppa negala<br>
370: Venismechah<br>
371: <br>
372: Humppa negala<br>
373: Humppa negala<br>
374: Humppa negala<br>
375: Venismechah<br>
376: <br>
377: Humppa neranenah<br>
378: Humppa neranenah<br>
379: Humppa neranenah<br>
380: Venismechah<br>
381: <br>
382: Humppa neranenah<br>
383: Humppa neranenah<br>
384: Humppa neranenah<br>
385: Venismechah<br>
386: <br>
387: Uru, uru achim!<br>
388: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
389: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
390: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
391: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
392: uru achim!<br>
393: uru achim!<br>
394: OpenBSD!<br>
395: <br>
396: <br>
397: (circus torture)<br>
398: <br>
399: <br>
400: Humppa negala<br>
401: Humppa negala<br>
402: Humppa negala<br>
403: Venismechah<br>
404: <br>
405: Humppa negala<br>
406: Humppa negala<br>
407: Humppa negala<br>
408: Venismechah<br>
409: <br>
410: Humppa neranenah<br>
411: Humppa neranenah<br>
412: Humppa neranenah<br>
413: Venismechah<br>
414: <br>
415: Humppa neranenah<br>
416: Humppa neranenah<br>
417: Humppa neranenah<br>
418: Venismechah<br>
419: <br>
420: Uru, uru achim!<br>
421: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
422: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
423: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
424: Uru achim b'lev sameach<br>
425: uru achim!<br>
426: uru achim!<br>
427: OpenBSD!<br>
428: <br>
429: <br>
430: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
431: <img width=396 height=1862 src="images/40song.gif"><br>
432: </td></tr></table>
433: <p>
434: <em>
435: CD 2 track 2 is an audio track entitled "Humppa Negala!", based on the
436: traditional Jewish song "Hava Nagilah" composed by Anonymous.
437: Section of "Enter The Gladiators" (circus theme) composed by Julius Fucik.
438: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios
439: (1-403-233-0350). Accordion, Tuba and drums by Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by
440: Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
441: <br>
442: <br>
443: </em>
444:
445: <hr>
1.63 deraadt 446: <a name=39></a>
1.64 jolan 447: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="39.html">
1.63 deraadt 448: 3.9: "Blob!"</a></font></h2>
449: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
450: <tr>
451: <td valign="top" width="33%">
452: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.9 or other items]</a><br>
453: OpenBSD 3.9 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
454: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
455: <br>
1.76 deraadt 456: 4:00 minutes
457: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.mp3">(MP3 7.6MB)</a>
458: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.ogg">(OGG 6.0MB)</a><br>
1.63 deraadt 459: <br>
1.76 deraadt 460: <a href="images/Blob.jpg">
461: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Blob" src="images/Blob.jpg"></a>
1.63 deraadt 462: <br>
463: <br>
464: <em>
465: OpenBSD emphasizes security. It also emphasizes openness. All the code
466: is there for all to see. Blobs are vendor-compiled binary drivers
467: without any source code. Hardware makers like them because they
468: obscure the details of how to make their hardware work. They hide bugs
469: and workarounds for bugs. Newer versions of blobs can weaken support
470: for older hardware and motivate people to buy new hardware.<br>
471: <br>
472: <br>
473: Blobs are expedient. Many other open source operating systems
474: cheerfully incorporate them; in fact their users demand them.<br>
475: <br>
476: <br>
477: But when you need to trust the system, how do you check the blob for
478: quality? For adherence to standards? How do you know the blob contains
479: no malicious code? No incompetent code? Inspection is impossible; you
480: can only test the black box. And when it breaks, you have no idea why.<br>
481: <br>
482: <br>
483: <ul>
484: <li>Blobs can be 'de-supported' by vendors<br>
485: at any time.<br>
486: <br>
487: <li>Blobs cannot be supported by developers.<br>
488: <br>
489: <li>Blobs cannot be fixed by developers.<br>
490: <br>
491: <li>Blobs cannot be improved.<br>
492: <br>
493: <li>Blobs cannot be audited.<br>
494: <br>
495: <li>
496: Blobs are specific to an architecture, thus<br>
497: less portable.<br>
498: <br>
499: <li>Blobs are quite often massively bloated.<br>
500: </ul>
501: <br>
502: <br>
503: This release, like every OpenBSD release, contains OpenBSD and its
504: source code. It runs on a wide variety of hardware. It contains many
505: new features and improvements. OpenBSD does attempt to convince
506: vendors to release documentation, and often reverse-engineers around
507: the need for blobs. OpenBSD remains blob-free. Anyone can look at it,
508: assess it, improve it. If it breaks, it can be fixed.
509: </em>
510: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
511: <br>
512: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
513: <br><br><br>
514: Little baby Blobby was a cute little baby<br>
515: when we found him on the beach,<br>
516: there was nothin' shady<br>
517: you could bounce him on your knee<br>
518: like a ba-ba-ball<br>
519: and his first little word was adorable<br>
520: <br>
521: He said a blah blah blah blah blah<br>
522: blah blah blah<br>
523: Blah!<br>
524: <br>
525: <br>
526: Thin edge of the wedge?<br>
527: But everybody was so happy - about Blob<br>
528: <br>
529: <br>
530: Blob was popular at school he was helpful too<br>
531: He could get your motor runnin'<br>
532: with a drop of goo<br>
533: He was givin' it away never charged a dime<br>
534: But by the time he graduated<br>
535: Blob was business slime!<br>
536: <br>
537: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
538: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
539: blah blah<br>
540: <br>
541: <br>
542: He's givin' you the Evil Eye!<br>
543: <br>
544: <br>
545: Now everybody had it<br>
546: they was drivin' around<br>
547: They was givin' up their freedoms<br>
548: for convenience now<br>
549: Blobbin' up the freeway, water black as pitch<br>
550: And somehow little Blobby was a growin' rich!<br>
551: <br>
552: <br>
553: He was a blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
554: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
555: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
556: blah blah<br>
557: <br>
558: <br>
559: It's linkin' time!<br>
560: <br>
561: <br>
562: Now it was out of control<br>
563: n' fishy's came to depend<br>
564: on Blobby's Blob Blah, seemed to be no end<br>
565: Then his empire spread and to their surprise<br>
566: Blobby been a growin' to incredible size!<br>
567: <br>
568: <br>
569: He's a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
570: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
571: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
572: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<br>
573: B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b<br>
574: <br>
575: <br>
1.66 deraadt 576: Then along came a genius Doctor Puffystein<br>
1.63 deraadt 577: And he battled the Blob<br>
578: who had crossed the line<br>
579: He was 50 feet tall - Doctor said "No fear"<br>
580: I got a sample of Blob I can reverse engineer!<br>
581: <br>
582: <br>
583: But it was too late!<br>
584: Blob was takin' over the world!<br>
585: He wants your video!<br>
586: Ya he wants your net!<br>
587: He wants your drive!<br>
588: He wants it all!!<br>
589: <br>
590: <br>
591: Somebody help us!<br>
592: Noooooooo!<br>
593: NVIDIA!<br>
594: Intel!<br>
595: Atheros!<br>
596: 3-Ware!<br>
597: VIA!<br>
598: ATI!<br>
599: Broadcom!<br>
600: TI!<br>
601: Myricom!<br>
602: HighPoint!<br>
603: Adaptec!<br>
604: Mylex!<br>
605: ICP Vortex!<br>
606: and IBM!<br>
607: Takin' over the world!<br>
608: <br>
609: <br>
610: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 611: <img height=2160 width=396 src="images/39song.gif"><br>
1.63 deraadt 612: </td></tr></table>
613: <p>
614: <em>
615: CD 2 track 2 is an audio track entitled "Blob!".
616: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
617: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
618: Vocals and Lyrics by <a href="http://www.tysemaka.com">Ty Semaka</a> &
619: Theo de Raadt.
620: Bass guitar, organ and bubbles by Jonathan Lewis.
621: Guitar by <a href="http://www.tom-bagley.com">Tom Bagley</a>.
622: Drums by Jim Buick.
623: <br>
624: <br>
625: </em>
626:
627: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 628: <a name=38></a>
629: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="38.html">
630: 3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"</a></font></h2>
631: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
632: <tr>
633: <td valign="top" width="33%">
634: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.8 or other items]</a><br>
635: OpenBSD 3.8 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
636: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
637: <br>
1.76 deraadt 638: 4:24 minutes
639: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.mp3">(MP3 8.1MB)</a>
640: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38.ogg">(OGG 5.6MB)</a><br>
641: Instrumental version
642: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.mp3">(MP3 8.0MB)</a>
643: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song38b.ogg">(OGG 5.5MB)</a><br>
1.58 deraadt 644: <br>
1.76 deraadt 645: <a href="images/Jones.jpg">
646: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Jones" src="images/Jones.jpg"></a>
1.58 deraadt 647: <br>
648: <br>
649: <em>
650: For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock
651: out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our
652: programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support
653: their devices.
654: <p>
655: Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support
656: for the
1.70 steven 657: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aac&sektion=4">aac(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 658: Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed.
659: They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support
660: for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which
661: affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of
662: course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these
1.59 jolan 663: bugs are because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy firmware
664: issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation we
665: cannot solve these issues.
1.58 deraadt 666: <p>
667: The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts
668: of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no
669: public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with
670: different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate
671: development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of
672: "quality" to show its head.
673: <p>
674: RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for:
675: <br>
676: <ul>
1.60 pvalchev 677: <li>Redundancy
1.58 deraadt 678: <li>Repair
679: </ul>
680: You want a RAID unit to provide you with redundancy, so that if some drives
1.60 pvalchev 681: fail, your data is not lost. But once a drive has failed, you require your
682: array to (automatically, most likely) perform the operations to repair
1.58 deraadt 683: itself, so that it is functioning perfectly again.
684: <p>
685: Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have
686: sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers,
687: so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have
688: never given us any documentation for performing Repairs.
689: <p>
690: Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management
691: tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that
1.67 jolan 692: is supposed to work through a bizarre interface in the device driver, which
1.58 deraadt 693: we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation.
694: <p>
695: And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on
696: vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for
697: the AMI controllers.
698: <p>
699: There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all
700: rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement
701: basic RAID management:
702: <ul>
703: <li>SCSI transactions on the back-side busses
704: <li>Discovering which drives are in which volumes
705: <li>Being able to silence the buzzer
706: <li>Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare
707: </ul>
708: <p>
709: The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations.
710: And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost
711: all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives.
712: <p>
713: Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later
714: work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation
715: or do some reverse engineering for their products.
716: <p>
1.60 pvalchev 717: But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when (if
718: ever) we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID
1.58 deraadt 719: controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which
720: may mean we can never get documentation for the
1.70 steven 721: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=gdt&sektion=4">gdt(4)</a>
1.58 deraadt 722: controllers.
723: The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we
724: would not get documentation, either.
725: 3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians
726: look saintly.
727: <p>
728: Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID
729: in OpenBSD, please buy
730: <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/index.html">LSI/AMI</a>
731: RAID cards. And everything
1.70 steven 732: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112630095818062&w=2">
1.58 deraadt 733: will just work</a>.
734: <p>
735: And keep pestering the other vendors.
736: <br>
737: </em>
738: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
739: <br>
740: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
741: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
742: Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!<br>
743: <br>
744: Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!<br>
745: <br>
746: Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most
747: treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and
748: morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed
749: hackologist and adventurer!<br>
750: <br>
751: Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from
752: the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile
753: vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.<br>
754: <br>
755: Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!<br>
756: <br>
757: <br>
758: <font color="#b00000">Marlus:</font>
759: Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.<br>
760: <br>
761: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
762: I'm a careful guy Marlus.<br>
763: <br>
764: <br>
765: <font color="#b00000">Puffy and Salmah:</font>
766: They're hacking in the wrong place!<br>
767: <br>
768: <br>
769: <font color="#b00000">Beluge:</font>
770: You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!<br>
771: <br>
772: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
773: Now you're gettin' nasty.<br>
774: <br>
775: <br>
776: <font color="#b00000">Puffy:</font>
777: SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?<br>
778: <br>
779: <font color="#b00000">Salmah:</font>
780: API's, very dangerous. You go first.<br>
781: <br>
782: <br>
783: <font color="#b00000">Narrator:</font>
784: Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally,
785: there before him
786: lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most
787: secure operating system,
788: to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by
789: the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?<br>
790: <br>
791: Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of
792: Puffiana Jones!<br>
793: <br>
794: <br>
795: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 796: <img height=2160 width=380 src="images/38song.gif"><br>
1.58 deraadt 797: </td></tr></table>
798: <p>
799: <em>
800: CD 2 track 2 is an audio track entitled "Hackers of the Lost RAID".
801: Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis.
802: The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis.
803: Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough.
804: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios.
805: (1-403-233-0350).
806: <br>
807: <br>
808: </em>
809:
810: <hr>
1.44 deraadt 811: <a name=37></a>
812: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="37.html">
813: 3.7: "Wizard of OS"</a></font></h2>
814: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
815: <tr>
816: <td valign="top" width="33%">
817: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.7 or other items]</a><br>
818: OpenBSD 3.7 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
819: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
820: <br>
1.76 deraadt 821: 10:08 minutes
822: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.mp3">(MP3 18MB)</a>
823: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song37.ogg">(OGG 13MB)</a><br>
1.44 deraadt 824: <br>
1.76 deraadt 825: <a href="images/Wizard.jpg">
826: <img width=227 height=343 alt="Wizard" src="images/Wizard.jpg"></a>
1.44 deraadt 827: <br>
828: <br>
829: <em>
830: For an operating system to get anywhere in "the market" it must have
831: good device support.<br>
832: <br>
833: Ethernet was our first concern. Many vendors refused to supply
834: programmers with programming documentation for these chipsets. Donald
835: Becker (Linux) and Bill Paul (FreeBSD) changed the rules of the game
836: here: They wrote drivers for the chipsets that they could get
837: documentation for, and as they succeeded in writing more and more
838: drivers, eventually closed vendors slowly opened up until most
839: ethernet chipset documentation was available. Today, some vendors
840: still resist releasing ethernet chipset documentation (ie. Broadcom,
1.62 brad 841: Intel, Marvell/SysKonnect, NVIDIA) but the driver problem is mostly
1.46 henning 842: solved in the ethernet market.<br>
1.44 deraadt 843: <br>
844: Similar problems have happened in the SCSI, IDE, and RAID markets.
845: Again, the problem was solved by writing drivers for documented
846: devices first. If the free software user communities use those drivers
847: preferentially, it is a market loss for the secretive vendors.
848: Another approach that has worked is to publish email addresses and
849: phone numbers for the marketing department managers in these
850: companies. These email campaigns have worked almost every time.<br>
851: <br>
852: The new frontier: 802.11 wireless chipsets.<br>
853: <br>
854: Over the last six months, this came to a head in the OpenBSD project.
855: We asked our users to help us petition numerous vendors so that we
856: could get chipset documentation or redistributable firmware. Certainly, we did
1.52 deraadt 857: not succeed for some vendors. But we did influence some vendors, in
1.44 deraadt 858: particular the Taiwanese (Ralink and Realtek), who have given us
859: everything we need. We also reverse engineered the Atheros chipsets.<br>
860: <br>
861:
862: Want to help us? Avoid
863: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipw">Intel Centrino</a>,
864: Broadcom, TI, or Connexant PrismGT chipsets.
865: Heck, avoid buying even regular
1.48 deraadt 866: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi">old pre-G Prism products</a>,
1.44 deraadt 867: to send a message.
1.48 deraadt 868: If you can, buy 802.11 products using chips by
1.44 deraadt 869: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rtw">Realtek</a>,
870: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ral">Ralink</a>,
871: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atu">Atmel</a>,
872: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=awi">ADMTek</a>,
873: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ath">Atheros</a>.
874: Our manual pages attempt to explain which vendors (ie. D-Link) box
1.52 deraadt 875: which chipsets into which product.
1.44 deraadt 876: <br>
877: <br>
878: Send a message that open support for hardware matters. A vendor in
1.56 cloder 879: Redmond largely continues their practices because they get
1.44 deraadt 880: the chipset documentation years before everyone else does.
881: What really upsets us the most is that some Linux vendors are signing
882: Non-Disclosure Agreements with vendors, or contracts that let them
883: distribute firmwares. Meanwhile both Linux and FSF head developers
1.49 nick 884: are not asking their communities to help us in our efforts to free
1.44 deraadt 885: development information for all, but are even going further and
886: telling their development communities to not work with us at
887: pressuring vendors. It is ridiculous.
888: <br>
889: </em>
890: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
891: <br>
892: </td><td valign=top width="30%">
893: The heroine is deaf to her device<br>
894: her uncles on the farm,<br>
895: send out the alarm<br>
896: and the shit storm flies<br>
897: E-maelstrom is lifting up the house<br>
898: With Puffathy inside,<br>
899: twisting up a ride<br>
900: to the land of OS<br>
901: Hard landing, the packets celebrate<br>
902: The wicked lawyers dead<br>
903: The open slippers red are<br>
904: Hers to take<br>
905: <br>
1.53 otto 906: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 907: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
908: <br>
909: The north witch instructed Puffathy<br>
910: To get yourself back home<br>
911: Take this yellow road and<br>
1.47 pvalchev 912: You'll be fine<br>
1.44 deraadt 913: Believe in the open ruby shoes<br>
914: Now go to see the Wiz and<br>
915: give Taiwan your biz<br>
916: You'll never lose<br>
917: The 3 friends she made along the way<br>
918: Were nice but pretty lame,<br>
919: lazy and insane<br>
920: but they sang OK<br>
921: <br>
1.53 otto 922: Ding dong the lawyer's dead<br>
1.44 deraadt 923: You're off to see the Wizard kid<br>
924: <br>
925: Finally we're through the trees<br>
926: The city glows<br>
927: It's positively green<br>
928: Pompously the wizard booms<br>
929: He wants the broom of triple 'w'<br>
930: <br>
931: Go to the west<br>
932: You must pass the test<br>
933: For me<br>
934: Bring me the ride<br>
935: of the witch I despise<br>
936: And you'll be free<br>
937: <br>
938: You don't need the broom<br>
939: You don't need the shoes<br>
940: You don't need the wiz<br>
941: You will never lose<br>
942: You have all you need<br>
943: You always had heart<br>
944: You always had courage<br>
945: Did somebody fart?<br>
946: You always had brains<br>
947: You answered each call<br>
1.57 deraadt 948: And this may surprise you<br>
1.44 deraadt 949: But you've got some balls<br>
950: So double click heels<br>
951: and work with Taiwan<br>
952: And speak to your doggie<br>
953: You're already gone....<br>
954: <br>
955: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 956: <img height=1079 width=380 src="images/37song.gif"><br>
1.44 deraadt 957: </td></tr></table>
958: <p>
959: <em>
960: Lyrics and vocal melody written by Ty Semaka.
961: Main vocals by Jonathan Lewis, sung female vocals by Adele Legere,
962: Puffathy (little girl voice) by Anita Miotti, monkeys and laughing by Ty
963: Semaka,
964: guitar by Reed Shimozawa, drums, bass and all other sounds programmed by
1.55 tom 965: Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.44 deraadt 966: Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at Moxam Studios
967: (1-403-233-0350).
968: <br>
969: <br>
970: </em>
971:
972: <hr>
1.37 deraadt 973: <a name=36></a>
974: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="36.html">
975: 3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"</a></font></h2>
976: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
977: <tr>
978: <td valign="top" width="28%">
979: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.6 or other items]</a><br>
980: OpenBSD 3.6 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
981: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
982: <br>
1.76 deraadt 983: 4:00 minutes
984: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.mp3">(MP3 7.7MB)</a>
985: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song36.ogg">(OGG 5.2MB)</a><br>
1.37 deraadt 986: <br>
1.76 deraadt 987: <a href="images/Ponderosa.jpg">
988: <img width=227 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Ponderosa.jpg"></a>
1.37 deraadt 989: <br>
990: <br>
991: <em>
992: What is up with some free software providers?!
993: They say "Here's something free! Oh wait, I changed my mind."
994: <p>
995: While not exactly bait-and-switch, this is something which
996: has been causing the community continual grief, and therefore
997: we decided to honour a few of the projects that have decided
1.41 deraadt 998: to go non-free. After all.. having gone non-free, no one is
1.37 deraadt 999: going to remember them in the end.
1000: <p>
1001: This song is dedicated to a few worthy groups who
1002: have made this Free-to-Non-Free transition with their
1003: offerings in the last few years:
1004: <ul>
1005: <li>David Dawes worked for years with a team of
1006: developers to make a free X11 distribution for us to use,
1007: called XFree86, 98% of which was based on entirely free
1008: code from MIT. Suddenly, one day, he decided that
1009: we must give him more credit (ie. advertise his name) or
1010: stop using it. Within about 4 months every project had
1011: told him to get stuffed, and the community has created a
1012: replacement effort.
1.41 deraadt 1013: Now his team cannot even keep their web pages up to date...
1.37 deraadt 1014: <p>
1015: <li>OpenBSD was the first operating system to integrate a
1016: packet filter, and it was the ipf codebase from Darren Reed
1017: that we chose. But a few years later he told us that we
1018: were not free to make changes to the code. So we deleted ipf,
1019: and our new packet filter far exceeds the capabilities of the
1020: one he wrote. And other projects are switching too...
1021: <p>
1022: <li>The Apache group started from the humble beginnings
1023: of just being 'a patchy' set of changes to a completely free
1024: web server of dubious quality. But the years have changed them,
1025: and what they supply is now quite non-free... released under
1.40 jolan 1026: a license so entangled in legalese that we have absolutely no
1.51 jcs 1027: doubt that there are encumbrances hidden within. Legal terms
1.37 deraadt 1028: protect. Who are they protecting? Not your freedom.
1029: </ul>
1030: So here's a goodbye to those three groups, and a warning to any
1031: others who will follow them:
1032: Make your stuff non-free, and something else will
1033: replace it.
1034: <br>
1035: </em>
1036: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1037: <br>
1038: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1039: <br>
1040: <br>
1041: Well he rode from the ocean far upstream<br>
1042: Nuthin' to his name but a code and a dream<br>
1043: Lookin' for the legendary inland sea<br>
1044: Where the water was deep n' clean n' free<br>
1045: <p>
1046: But the town he found had suffered a blow<br>
1.38 pvalchev 1047: Fish were dying, cause the water was low<br>
1.37 deraadt 1048: Fat cat fish name o' Diamond Dawes<br>
1049: Plugged the stream with copyright laws<br>
1050: <p>
1051: <br>
1052: He said my water's good n' my water's free<br>
1053: So Pond-erosa, you gonna thank me!<br>
1054: Then he bottled it up and he labeled it "Mine"<br>
1055: They opened n' poured, but they ran outta time!<br>
1056: <p>
1057: So Puff made a brand and he tanned his hide<br>
1058: Said. "this is the mark of too much pride"<br>
1059: Tied him to a horse, set the tail on fire<br>
1060: Slapped er on the ass and the water went higher!<br>
1061: <p>
1062: <br>
1063: Pond-erosa Puff<br>
1064: wouldn't take no guff<br>
1.41 deraadt 1065: Water oughta be clean and free<br>
1.37 deraadt 1066: So he fought the fight<br>
1067: and he set things right<br>
1068: With his OpenBSD<br>
1069: <p>
1070: <br>
1071: Well things were good fer a spell in town<br>
1072: But then one day, dang water turned brown<br>
1073: Comin' to the rescue, Mayor Reed<br>
1074: He said, "This here filter's all ya'll need"<br>
1075: <p>
1076: But it didn't take long 'fore the filter plugged<br>
1077: Full of mud, n' crud, n' bugs<br>
1078: Folks said "gotta be a gooder way"<br>
1079: Mayor said "Hell No! She's O.K."<br>
1080: <p>
1081: <br>
1082: "The water's fine on the Open range"<br>
1083: And he passed a law that it couldn't change.<br>
1.51 jcs 1084: "No freeze, no boil, no frolicking young"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1085: Puff took him aside, said "this is wrong"<br>
1086: <p>
1087: Then he found the Mayor was addin' the crud!<br>
1088: So he took him down in a cloud of blood<br>
1089: Said "The Mayor's learnd, he's done been mean"<br>
1090: So they did it right and the water went clean!<br>
1091: <p>
1092: <br>
1093: CHORUS<br>
1094: <p>
1095: <br>
1096: So once agin' it was right, but then<br>
1097: The lake went dry, she was gone again!<br>
1098: Fish started flippin' and floppin' about<br>
1.42 deraadt 1099: Yellin' "Mercy Puff! It's a doggone drought!"<br>
1.37 deraadt 1100: <p>
1101: So he rolled up-gulch till he hit the lake<br>
1102: Of Apache fish, they was on the take<br>
1103: They'd built a dam that was made of rules<br>
1104: Now Puff was pissed and he lost his cool!<br>
1105: <p>
1106: <br>
1107: I'm sick and tired of these goldarn words!<br>
1.39 mcbride 1108: n' laws n' bureaucratic nerds!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1109: You're full o' beans n' killin' my town<br>
1110: and if you's all don't shut er down<br>
1111: <p>
1112: I'll hang a lickin' on every one<br>
1113: of you sons o' bitchin' greedy scum!<br>
1.41 deraadt 1114: So he blew the dam, an' he let 'er haul<br>
1115: Cause water oughta be free for all!<br>
1.37 deraadt 1116: <p>
1117: <br>
1118: CHORUS<br>
1119: <br>
1120: <p>
1121: That's right!<br>
1122: I'll hang a lickin' on ya!<br>
1123: Never piss on another man's boot!<br>
1124: <br>
1125: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1126: <img height=1634 width=263 src="images/36song.gif"><br>
1.37 deraadt 1127: </td></tr></table>
1128: <p>
1129: <em>
1130: Vocals, Lyrics, Melody and Co-Arrangement by Ty Semaka - Guitar by
1131: Chantal Vitalis - Bass by Jonny Nordstrom - Drums by John McNiel,<br>
1132: Fiddle - Co-Arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Mastering by Jonathan Lewis of
1133: Moxam Studios (1-403-233-0350).
1134: <br>
1135: <br>
1136: </em>
1137:
1138: <hr>
1.30 deraadt 1139: <a name=35></a>
1.33 deraadt 1140: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="35.html">
1141: 3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"</a></font></h2>
1.30 deraadt 1142: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1143: <tr>
1144: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 1145: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.5 or other items]</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1146: OpenBSD 3.5 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1.55 tom 1147: uncompressed copy of this skit & song.<br>
1.30 deraadt 1148: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1149: 5:21 minutes
1150: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.mp3">(MP3 9.7MB)</a>
1151: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song35.ogg">(OGG 6.8MB)</a><br>
1.30 deraadt 1152: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1153: <a href="images/Carp.gif">
1154: <img width=255 height=343 alt="CARP" src="images/Carp.gif"></a>
1.30 deraadt 1155: <br>
1156: <br>
1157: <em>
1158: A common theme used by the comedy crew Monty Python was to emphasize
1159: and exaggerate ridiculousnesses that their target had imposed upon
1160: themselves. Few things could be considered as humorous as making a
1161: redundancy protocol... redundant; e.g. being forced to replace it by
1162: Cisco lawyers and IETF policy.
1163: <p>
1164: We've been working a few years now on our packet filtering software
1165: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
1166: and it became time to add failover. We want to be able to set up pf
1167: firewalls side by side, and exchange the stateful information between
1168: them, so that in case of failure another could take over 'keep state'
1169: sessions. Our
1170: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>
1171: protocol solves this problem. However, on both sides of the firewall,
1172: it is also necessary to have all the regular hosts not see a
1173: network failure. The only reliable way to do this is for both
1174: firewall machines to have and use the same IP and MAC addresses. But
1175: the only real way to do that is to use multicast protocols.
1176: <p>
1177: The IETF community proposed work in this direction in the late
1178: 90's, however in 1997 Cisco informed them that they believed some of
1179: Cisco's patents covered the proposed IETF VRRP (Virtual Router
1180: Redundancy Protocol); on
1181: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/VRRP-CISCO">
1182: March 20, 1998 they went further and specifically named their HSRP
1183: "Hot Standby Router Protocol" patent</a>. Reputedly, they were upset
1184: that IETF had not simply adopted the flawed HSRP protocol as the
1185: standard solution for this problem. Despite this legal pressure, the
1186: IETF community forged ahead and published VRRP as a standard even
1187: though there was a patent in the space. Why?
1188: <a href="http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/documents/standards/general-comms/ietf/vrrp/vrrp-minutes-97dec.txt">
1189: There was much deliberation</a>
1190: at all levels of the IETF, and unfortunately for all of us the
1191: politicians within eventually decided to allow patented technology in
1192: standards -- as long as the patented technology is licensed under RAND
1193: (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) terms. As free software
1194: programmers, we therefore find ourselves in the position that these
1195: RAND standards must not be implemented by us, and we must deviate from
1196: the standard. We find all this rather Unreasonable and Discriminatory
1197: and we *will* design competing protocols. Some standards organization,
1198: eh?
1199: <p>
1200: Due to some HSRP flaws fixed by VRRP and for compatibility with the
1201: (HSRP-licensed) VRRP implementations of their competitors, Cisco in
1202: recent times has largely abandoned HSRP and now relies on VRRP instead
1203: -- a protocol designed for and by the community, but for which they
1204: claim patent rights.
1205: <p>
1206: On August 7 2002, after many communications, Robert Barr (Cisco's
1207: lawyer) firmly informed the OpenBSD community that Cisco would defend
1208: its patents for VRRP implementations -- meaning basically that it was
1209: impossible for a free software group to produce a truly free
1210: implementation of the IETF standard protocol. Perhaps this is because
1211: Cisco and Alcatel are currently engaged in a pair of patent lawsuits; a
1212: small piece of which is Cisco attempting to use the HSRP patent
1213: against Alcatel for their use of VRRP. Some IETF working group
1214: members took note of our complaints,
1215: <a href="http://lists.microshaft.org/pipermail/dmca_discuss/2003-April/004702.html">
1216: however an attempt in April 2003 to have the IETF abandon the use of
1217: patented technology failed to "reach consensus" in the IETF</a>.
1218: <p>
1219: A few years ago, the W3C, who designs our web protocols, tried to move
1220: to a RAND policy as well (primarily because of pressure from Microsoft
1221: and Apple), but the community outrage was so overpowering that they
1222: backed down. Some standards groups use this policy, while others
1223: avoid it -- the one differentiation being the amount of corporate
1.55 tom 1224: participation. In the IETF, the pro-RAND agents work for AT&T,
1.30 deraadt 1225: Alcatel, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and other large companies. Since IETF
1226: is an open forum, they can blend in as the populace, and vote just
1227: like all others, except against the community.
1228: <p>
1229: Translation: In failing to "reach consensus", the companies who
1230: benefit from RAND won, and the community lost again.
1231: <p>
1232: Left with little choice, we proceeded to reinvent the wheel or, more
1233: correctly, abandon the wheel entirely and go for a "hovercraft". We
1234: designed CARP (Common Address Redundancy Protocol) to solve the same
1235: problem that these other protocols are designed for, but without the
1236: same technological basis as HSRP and VRRP. We read the patent
1237: document carefully and ensured that CARP was fundamentally different.
1238: We also avoided many of the flaws in HSRP and VRRP (such as an inherent
1239: lack of security). And since we are OpenBSD developers, we designed
1240: it to use cryptography.
1241: <p>
1242: The combination of
1243: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>,
1244: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync&sektion=4">pfsync(4)</a>, and
1245: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp&sektion=4">carp(4)</a>
1246: has permitted us to build highly redundant firewalls. To date, we
1247: have built a few networks that include as many as 4 firewalls, all
1248: running random reboot cycles. As long as one firewall is alive in a
1249: group, traffic through them moves smoothly and correctly for all of
1250: our packet filter functionality. Cisco's low end products are unable
1251: to do this reliably, and if they have high end products which can do
1252: this, you most certainly cannot afford them.
1253: <p>
1254: As a final note of course, when we petitioned IANA, the IETF body
1255: regulating "official" internet protocol numbers, to give us numbers
1256: for CARP and pfsync our request was denied. Apparently we had failed
1257: to go through an official standards organization. Consequently we
1258: were forced to choose a protocol number which would not conflict with
1259: anything else of value, and decided to place CARP at IP protocol 112.
1260: We also placed pfsync at an open and unused number. We informed IANA of
1261: these decisions, but they declined to reply.
1262: <p>
1263: This ridiculous situation then inspired one of our developers to create
1264: this parody of the well-known Monty Python skit and song.
1265: <br>
1266: </em>
1267: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1268: <br>
1269: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1270: <br>
1271: <br>
1272: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1273: Hello, I would like to buy a CARP license please.
1274: <br>
1275: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1276: A what?
1277: <br>
1278: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1279: A license for my network redundancy protocol, CARP.
1280: <br>
1281: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1282: Well, it's free isn't it?
1283: <br>
1284: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1285: Exactly, the protocol's name is CARP. CARP the redundancy protocol.
1286: <br>
1287: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1288: What?
1289: <br>
1290: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1291: He is an.... redundancy protocol.
1292: <br>
1293: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1294: CARP is a free redundancy protocol!
1295: <br>
1296: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1297: Yes, I chose it out of three, I didn't like the others,
1298: they were all too... encumbered. And now I must license it!
1299: <br>
1300: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1301: You must be a looney.
1302: <br>
1303: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1304: I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely
1305: because I wish to protect my redundancy protocol? I've heard tell
1306: that Network Associates has a pet algorithm called RSA used in IETF
1307: standards, and you wouldn't call them a looney; Geoworks has a claim
1308: on WAP, after what their lawyers do to you if you try to implement it.
1309: Cisco has two redundant patents, both encumbered, and Cadtrack has a
1310: patent on cursor movement! So, if you're calling the large American
1311: companies that fork out millions of dollars for the use of XOR a
1312: bunch of looneys, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
1313: <br>
1314: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1315: Alright, alright, alright. A license.
1316: <br>
1317: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1318: Yes.
1319: <br>
1320: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1321: For a free redundancy protocol?
1322: <br>
1323: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1324: Yes.
1325: <br>
1326: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1327: You are a looney.
1328: <br>
1329: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1330: Look, it allows for bleeding redundancy doesn't it? Cisco's got a
1331: patent for the HSRP, and I've got to get a license for me router
1332: VRRP.
1333: <br>
1334: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1335: You don't need a license for your VRRP.
1336: <br>
1337: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1.32 otto 1338: I bleeding well do and I got one. It can't be called VRRP without it.
1.30 deraadt 1339: <br>
1340: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1341: There's no such thing as a bloody VRRP license.
1342: <br>
1343: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1344: Yes there is!
1345: <br>
1346: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1347: Isn't!
1348: <br>
1349: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1350: Is!
1351: <br>
1352: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1353: Isn't!
1354: <br>
1355: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1356: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
1357: <br>
1358: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1359: This is a Cisco HSRP patent document with the word "Cisco" crossed
1360: out and the word "IETF" written in in crayon.
1361: <br>
1362: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1363: The man didn't have the right form.
1364: <br>
1365: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1366: What man?
1367: <br>
1368: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1369: Robert Barr, the man from the redundancy detector van.
1370: <br>
1371: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1372: The looney detector van, you mean.
1373: <br>
1374: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1375: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
1376: <br>
1377: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1378: What redundancy detector van?
1379: <br>
1380: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1381: The redundancy detector van from the Monopoly of Cizzz-coeee.
1382: <br>
1383: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1384: Cizzz-coeee?
1385: <br>
1386: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1387: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant! I never seen
1388: so many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could
1389: pinpoint a failover configuration at 400 yards! And my Cisco router,
1390: being such a flappy bat, was a piece of cake.
1391: <br>
1392: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1.34 otto 1393: How much did you pay for that?
1.30 deraadt 1394: <br>
1395: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1396: Sixty quid, and twenty grand for the PIX.
1397: <br>
1398: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1399: What PIX?
1400: <br>
1401: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1402: The PIX I'm replacing!
1403: <br>
1404: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1405: So you're replacing your PIX with free software, and yet you want to
1406: license it?
1407: <br>
1408: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1409: There's nothing so odd about that. I'm sure they patented this
1410: protocol too. After all, the IETF had a hand in it!
1411: <br>
1412: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1413: No they didn't!
1414: <br>
1415: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1416: Did!
1417: <br>
1418: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1419: Didn't!
1420: <br>
1421: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1422: Did, did, did and did!
1423: <br>
1424: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1425: Oh, all right.
1426: <br>
1427: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1428: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a CARP
1429: license?
1430: <br>
1431: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1432: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
1433: <br>
1434: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1435: In that case, give me a Firewall License.
1436: <br>
1437: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1438: A license?
1439: <br>
1440: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1441: Yes.
1442: <br>
1443: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1444: For your firewall?
1445: <br>
1446: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1447: No.
1448: <br>
1449: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1450: No?
1451: <br>
1452: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1453: No, half my firewall. It had an accident.
1454: <br>
1455: <font color="#b00000">Licenser:</font>
1456: You're off your chump.
1457: <br>
1458: <font color="#b00000">Customer:</font>
1459: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquialism
1.43 deraadt 1460: to imply that my sanity is not entirely up to scratch, or indeed to deny the
1.30 deraadt 1461: semi-existence of my little half firewall, I shall have to ask you to
1462: listen to this! Take it away CARP the orchestra leader!
1463: <br>
1464: <br>
1465: A zero... one.. A one zero one one<br>
1466: <br>
1467: VRRP, philosophically,<br>
1468: must ipso facto standard be<br>
1469: But standard it<br>
1470: needs to be free<br>
1471: vis a vis<br>
1472: the IETF<br>
1473: you see?<br>
1474: <br>
1475: But can VRRP<br>
1476: be said to be<br>
1477: or not to be<br>
1478: a standard, see,<br>
1479: when VRRP can not be free,<br>
1480: due to some Cisco patentry..<br>
1481: <br>
1482: Singing...<br>
1483: <br>
1484: La Dee Dee, 1, 2, 3.<br>
1485: VRRP ain't free.<br>
1486: O P E N B S D<br>
1487: CARP is free<br>
1488: <br>
1489: Is this wretched Cisco-eze<br>
1490: let through IETF to mean<br>
1491: my firewall must pay legal fees?<br>
1492: No! CARP and PF are Free!<br>
1493: <br>
1494: Fiddle dee dum,<br>
1495: Fiddle dee dee,<br>
1496: CARP and PF are free.<br>
1497: <br>
1498: 1 1 2,<br>
1499: Tee Hee Hee,<br>
1500: CARP and PF are free.<br>
1501: <br>
1502: My firewall just keeps running, see,<br>
1503: bisected accidentally,<br>
1504: one summer afternoon by me.<br>
1505: Redundancy's good when free.<br>
1506: <br>
1507: Redundancy must be free.<br>
1508: Redundancy must be free.<br>
1509: <br>
1510: The End<br>
1511: <br>
1512: Under the Geddy Lee?<br>
1513: <br>
1514: No, Redundancy must be free!<br>
1515: <br>
1516: Geddy must be free.<br>
1517: <br>
1518: <br>
1519: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1520: <img height=1800 width=360 src="images/35song.gif"><br>
1.30 deraadt 1521: </td></tr></table>
1522: <p>
1523: <em>
1524: <font color="#00b000">"CARP License"</font> sketch:<br>
1525: Tony Binns as the Customer, Peter Rumpel as the Licenser.
1526: <br>
1.34 otto 1527: <font color="#00b000">"Redundancy must be free"</font> song:<br>
1.30 deraadt 1528: Lead vocal by Peter Rumpel, backing vocals by Jonathan Lewis and Ty Semaka.
1.37 deraadt 1529: Piano by Janet Lewis, acoustic guitars by Chantal Vitalis.<br>
1.30 deraadt 1530: Bass and Geddy Lee questioning by Jonathan Lewis.
1531: Lyrics by Bob Beck.<br>
1532: <br>
1533: <br>
1534: </em>
1535:
1536: <hr>
1.20 deraadt 1537: <a name=34></a>
1.33 deraadt 1538: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="34.html">
1539: 3.4: "The Legend of Puffy Hood"</a></font></h2>
1.20 deraadt 1540: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1541: <tr>
1542: <td valign="top" width="28%">
1.33 deraadt 1543: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.4 or other items]</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 1544: OpenBSD 3.4 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1545: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1546: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1547: 3:30 minutes
1548: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.mp3">(MP3 7.0MB)</a>
1549: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song34.ogg">(OGG 5.1MB)</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 1550: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1551: <a href="images/Hood.gif">
1552: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puffy Hood" src="images/Hood.gif"></a>
1.20 deraadt 1553: <br>
1554: <br>
1555: <em>
1556: Join Puffy Hood and his Funny Fish as they take on
1.26 deraadt 1557: the Sheriff (an unelected leader) and other evil
1.20 deraadt 1558: forces of the draconian government!
1559: <p>
1560: <br>
1561: As we did for the 3.3 release, we have once again tried
1562: making release artwork and music which are allegorical
1563: of recent happenings.
1564: <p>
1565: Two years ago we became involved with the University
1566: of Pennsylvania and DARPA, who were funding us to do
1567: security research and development .. on things that
1568: we were already intending to do. We provided ideas,
1569: wrote papers, and deployed cutting-edge technology;
1570: DARPA provided finances and reaped a share of the
1571: credit, and the University of Pennsylvania acted as
1572: a middle-man. We accepted funding based on the
1573: promise that our freedom to operate as we wished
1574: was unaffected. To us, freedom is more important
1.21 deraadt 1575: than funding -- heck, we were dealing with the evil
1.20 deraadt 1576: forces of government, and needed to be careful.
1577: <p>
1578: A few months prior to this release, DARPA suddenly
1579: and without warning decided to withdraw that funding;
1580: they also aggressively backed out of contractual
1581: obligations. Many articles in the <a href=press.html>press</a> followed regarding
1.67 jolan 1582: this sudden maneuver. Apparently this hoopla happened
1.20 deraadt 1583: because an OpenBSD-related article in the Canadian
1.55 tom 1584: newspaper The Globe & Mail had quoted Theo de Raadt
1.20 deraadt 1585: making anti-war statements regarding Iraq and the
1586: theft of oil.
1587: <p>
1588: The only answer given (to major media reporters) by a
1589: DARPA spokesperson (Jan Walker) was this:
1590: <p>
1591: "As a result of the DARPA review of the
1592: project, and due to world events and the evolving
1593: threat posed by increasingly capable nation-states,
1594: the Government on April 21 advised the University
1595: to suspend work on the "security fest" portion of
1596: the project."
1597: <p>
1598: That almost toes the line of calling us terrorists!
1599: We had lost financial support, but the release of the
1600: statement above suddenly made us very happy to be free
1601: of any perceived obligation to such crazy people.
1602: <p>
1603: Since the termination came near natural contract
1604: termination (about 4 months remained), less damage
1605: than expected was sustained by the project. Sponsors
1606: stepped forward and helped us make up the missing funds
1607: we needed to run our "Hackathon", and the event
1.61 grunk 1608: proceeded as planned. We even had T-shirts made with
1.20 deraadt 1609: "Workstations of Mass Development" artwork for those
1610: developers who attended (sorry, they are not for sale).
1611: <p>
1612: We could not make stories like this up. So instead,
1613: we are making up an allegory about it, using the tale
1614: of Robin Hood.
1615: </em>
1616: </td><td valign="top" width="3%">
1617: <br>
1618: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1619: <br>
1620: Sir Puffy of Ramsay was a wandrin'<br>
1621: Through forests of seaweed all alone<br>
1622: He had found the crusades<br>
1623: were an endless charade<br>
1624: So for now he called Nothing Hack home<br>
1625: <br>
1626: <br>
1627: One day he met Little Bob of Beckley<br>
1628: Beat him fair on a log-in by staff<br>
1629: Clever chums they did find<br>
1630: other fish of their kind<br>
1631: Thwarting evil with humppa and math<br>
1632: <br>
1633: <br>
1634: Now trouble was a brewin' when the Good King was away<br>
1635: The Sheriff came a callin' for the poor to pay<br>
1636: With CD's and their freedom<br>
1637: for to share online<br>
1638: And burning down the village cause he was a slime<br>
1639: <br>
1640: <br>
1641: So Puffy and his buddies took the booty from the rich<br>
1642: and turned it into a system to protect poor fish<br>
1643: Sent out by Hook or a Wim<br>
1644: to the teaming schools<br>
1645: Town cryers were on fire cause the crypto ruled!<br>
1646: <br>
1647: <br>
1648: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
1649: They called it "BSD"!<br>
1650: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
1651: So raise up your glass and<br>
1652: three cheers to the Funny<br>
1653: Fish for never running<br>
1654: and making something good!<br>
1655: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
1656: <br>
1657: <br>
1658: Aaaw! Word to the sea y'all<br>
1659: The Hood's a bad ball<br>
1660: Ya underneath he's a heathen and a traitor<br>
1661: He can take from you all and say "later!"<br>
1662: Think he's a hero?<br>
1663: Naw he ain't lovin' ya<br>
1.24 deraadt 1664: He gettin' richer than Bill Gates and Dubya<br>
1.20 deraadt 1665: Read the Wanted poster<br>
1666: of Sheriff Plac-o-derm fool<br>
1667: We gettin' back the booty<br>
1668: or we take away your worms too<br>
1669: <br>
1670: <br>
1671: Yo! Word to the classes<br>
1672: Put on your glasses<br>
1673: I guess the Sheriff is King till this passes<br>
1674: Times are a changin' and movin' so fast<br>
1675: He says "Give me your freedom,<br>
1676: I'll grasp it and pass it to brass<br>
1677: who can hash it for weapons of massive distraction.<br>
1678: And hand me the bastards that brashly amassed from the cash<br>
1679: happy faction of oily and gassy co-action".<br>
1680: No! Don't hand em dick, grab a stick, keep attacking for freedom<br>
1681: and hack till the King cometh back and leave em'<br>
1682: <br>
1683: <br>
1684: Then trouble was a rollin' with an army on the run<br>
1.25 deraadt 1685: The Sheriff came a callin' for the spikey one<br>
1.20 deraadt 1686: And took back all the booty<br>
1687: Puff intended for the poor<br>
1688: The Arch-a-thon went on despite the mighty roar<br>
1689: <br>
1690: <br>
1691: Puff snuck into the castle, and found the treasure hill<br>
1692: And also found Maid Marlin held against her will<br>
1693: He loaded all the loot<br>
1694: to give it back and big surprise<br>
1695: He took the maiden too, 'cause she was easy on the eyes<br>
1696: <br>
1697: <br>
1698: <em>Chorus:</em><br>
1699: They called it "BSD"!<br>
1700: And "Open" because it's always free<br>
1701: So raise up your glass and<br>
1702: three cheers to the Funny<br>
1703: Fish for never running<br>
1704: and making something good!<br>
1705: And here's to Puffy Hood!<br>
1706: <br>
1707:
1708: <br>
1709: <br>
1710: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1711: <img height=1440 width=263 src="images/34song.gif"><br>
1.20 deraadt 1712: </td></tr></table>
1713: <p>
1714: <em>
1715: Music, Co-arrangement, Recording, Mixing, Drum Programming,
1716: Bass, Organ, and Violin by Jonathan Lewis.
1717: <br>
1718: Co-Arrangement, Lyrics, and Main Vocals by Ty Semaka.
1719: <br>
1720: Back-vocals by Bob Beck, Calvin Beck, Theo de Raadt, Alan Kolodziejzyk,
1.55 tom 1721: Jonathan Lewis & Peter Valchev.
1.20 deraadt 1722: <br>
1723: Rap #1 by Richard Sixto.
1724: Guitar by Chantal Vitalis.
1725: <br>
1726: </em>
1727:
1.23 jose 1728: <br>
1729: <hr>
1.11 deraadt 1730: <a name=33></a>
1.33 deraadt 1731: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="33.html">
1732: 3.3: "Puff the Barbarian"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 1733: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1734: <tr>
1735: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 1736: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.3 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1737: OpenBSD 3.3 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1738: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1739: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1740: 4:00 minutes
1741: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.mp3">(MP3 7.5MB)</a>
1742: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song33.ogg">(OGG 3.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1743: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1744: <a href="images/Barbarian.gif">
1745: <img height=343 width=255 alt="Puff the Barbarian" src="images/Barbarian.gif"></a>
1.12 deraadt 1746: <br>
1747: <br>
1.14 deraadt 1748: <em>
1.69 deraadt 1749: Like other Barbarians before him, Puff has had to
1750: face some pretty crazy challenges.
1.12 deraadt 1751: <br>
1.69 deraadt 1752: This song is an allegory of the recent difficulties
1753: we went through dealing with Sun, who refused our
1754: request for documentation about their UltraSPARC
1755: III processors. We want documentation, because
1756: these are the fastest processors with a per-page
1757: eXecute bit in the MMU, needed to fully support
1758: our new W^X security feature. In the meantime,
1759: the AMD Hammer has come onto the scene, and
1760: this processor supports an eXecute bit in 64-bit
1.36 deraadt 1761: mode.<br>
1762: <br>
1763: And it is going to be faster...<br>
1.12 deraadt 1764: </em>
1.11 deraadt 1765: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1766: Deep through the mists of time<br>
1767: Gaze to the crystal ball<br>
1768: Back to the age of darkness<br>
1769: Black was the protocol<br>
1770: <p>
1771: A King ruled the web with fear<br>
1772: Spilling the blood of men<br>
1773: Then from the ocean came<br>
1774: Puff the Barbarian<br>
1.17 deraadt 1775: <br>
1776: <br>
1.11 deraadt 1777: Born in a tiny bowl Puff was a pet<br>
1778: Sold into slav-er-y by the man<br>
1779: Eating the weeds till he was strong enough<br>
1780: Breaking his bonds like nobody can<br>
1781: <p>
1782: Down the sewer pipes of Hell<br>
1783: A thousand kitties then did bleed<br>
1784: Constraints were slain as well<br>
1785: Hacked his way out to the C<br>
1786: <p>
1787: And there he found<br>
1788: His destiny<br>
1789: Hammer of the Ocean God<br>
1790: "Xor taking care of me"<br>
1791: <p>
1792: Then in a dream Xor requested he<br>
1793: "Go to the Sun King, get what I yearn<br>
1794: Kernighan saw it, prophet of the C<br>
1795: Knowledge - so they may never return"<br>
1796: <p>
1797: At the tower Puff appealed<br>
1798: For the wisdom of the One<br>
1799: Denied, his mind did reel<br>
1800: Puff was getting tired of Sun<br>
1801: <p>
1802: Broke down the guard<br>
1803: Cause math is hard<br>
1.18 deraadt 1804: Saw McNealy on his throne<br>
1.11 deraadt 1805: All alone and only bones<br>
1806: <p>
1807: Come the Sun King blade ablur<br>
1808: Hammer down eclipse the Sun<br>
1809: And Puff, the land secured<br>
1810: The new King Barbarian!<br>
1811: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1812: <img height=640 width=260 src="images/33song.gif"><br>
1.11 deraadt 1813: </td></tr></table>
1814: <p>
1815: <em>
1816: Written and arranged by Ty Semaka.
1817: Co-arranged, recorded, mixed & mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
1818: <br>
1819: Vocals by DeVille, guitar by Sean Desmond, bass by Ian Knox,
1820: drums by John McNiel, violin by Jonathan Lewis.
1821: </em>
1822:
1823: <br>
1824: <hr>
1.9 millert 1825: <a name=32></a>
1.33 deraadt 1826: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="32.html">
1827: 3.2: "Goldflipper"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 1828: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1829: <tr>
1830: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 1831: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.2 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1832: OpenBSD 3.2 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1833: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1834: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1835: 3:00 minutes
1836: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.mp3">(MP3 2.5MB)</a>
1837: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song32.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1838: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1839: <a href="images/MrPond.gif">
1840: <img height=313 width=255 alt="Mr Pond" src="images/MrPond.gif"></a>
1.11 deraadt 1841: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.9 millert 1842: Goldflipper<br>
1843: With golden skin<br>
1844: and flippers as sharp as a knife<br>
1845: He's the machine<br>
1846: Designed to dismember your life<br>
1847: <p>
1848: And the fish<br>
1849: Protecting us all from the cat<br>
1850: And the cat<br>
1851: Infecting the wo-orld for a laugh<br>
1852: <p>
1853: Cyborg on a mission<br>
1854: To do some Puff fishin'<br>
1855: The doctor wants fugu tonight!<br>
1856: <p>
1857: (short instrumental intro)
1.1 deraadt 1858: <p>
1.9 millert 1859: You'll need some machismo to<br>
1860: catch the spikey one<br>
1861: He's got guts and gizmos to<br>
1862: make the system run<br>
1.1 deraadt 1863: <p>
1.9 millert 1864: But Flip's here for fun<br>
1865: and without a gun<br>
1866: He'll dice you with his Golden fin<br>
1.1 deraadt 1867: <p>
1.9 millert 1868: She's all over Puff cause he's<br>
1869: such a sexy catch<br>
1870: Is she spying on him or<br>
1871: just a seafood match?<br>
1.1 deraadt 1872: <p>
1.9 millert 1873: Oh double seven<br>
1874: Send me to Heaven<br>
1875: Cause for Mr. Po-o-o-ond<br>
1.1 deraadt 1876: <p>
1.9 millert 1877: The women are fond<br>
1878: She knows what to do<br>
1879: She'll turn Gold to goo<br>
1.1 deraadt 1880: <p>
1.9 millert 1881: Goldflipper is gone<br>
1882: Gold flipper's goooooooooooooone<br>
1.11 deraadt 1883: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1884: <br>
1885: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 1886: <p>
1887: <em>
1.9 millert 1888: Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
1.1 deraadt 1889: <br>
1.9 millert 1890: Base & drum programming, recording, mixing & mastering by
1891: Jonathan Lewis. Vocals by Onalea Gilbertson. Sax by Dan Meichel.
1892: Trumpet & Trombone by Craig Soby.
1.1 deraadt 1893: </em>
1894:
1895: <br>
1896: <hr>
1.3 ian 1897: <a name=31></a>
1.33 deraadt 1898: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="31.html">
1899: 3.1: "Systemagic"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 1900: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="100%">
1901: <tr>
1902: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 1903: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.1 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1904: OpenBSD 3.1 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1905: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1906: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1907: 3:00 minutes
1908: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
1909: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song31.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1910: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1911: <a href="images/Systemagic.jpg">
1912: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Systemagic" src="images/Systemagic.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 1913: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 1914: BSD fight buffer reign<br>
1915: Flowing blood in circuit vein<br>
1916: Quagmire, Hellfire, RAMhead Count<br>
1917: Puffy rip attacker out<br>
1918: <p>
1919: Crackin' ze bathroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
1920: Tale of the script, HEY! Secure by default<br>
1921: <p>
1922: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
1923: Über tragic<br>
1924: Can't fight the Systemagic<br>
1925: <p>
1926: Sexty second, black cat struck<br>
1927: Breeding worm of crypto-suck<br>
1928: Hot rod box unt hunting wake<br>
1929: Vampire omellete, kitten cake<br>
1.11 deraadt 1930: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.1 deraadt 1931: <p>
1932: Crackin' ze boardroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
1933: Rippin' ze bat, HEY! Secure by default<br>
1934: <p>
1935: Chorus
1936: <p>
1937: Cybersluts vit undead guts<br>
1938: Transyl-viral coffin muck<br>
1939: Penguin lurking under bed<br>
1940: Puffy hoompa on your head<br>
1941: <p>
1942: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
1943: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
1944: Crackin' ze bedroom, Crackin' ze vault<br>
1945: Crackin' ze whip, HEY! Secure by default<br>
1946: <p>
1947: Chorus<br>
1.11 deraadt 1948: </td></tr></table>
1.1 deraadt 1949: <p>
1950: <em>
1.3 ian 1951: Produced & Directed by Ty Semaka and Ian Knox.
1.1 deraadt 1952: Written, Arranged and Performed by Ty Semaka (vocals, lyrics), Ian Knox (bass,
1953: drum programming), and Sean Desmond (guitar).
1954: <br>
1.3 ian 1955: Recorded & Mixed at Ruffmix Audio Productions (Calgary) by Kelly Mihalicz.
1.1 deraadt 1956: <br>
1957: Mastered by Jonathan Lewis.
1958: </em>
1959:
1.8 millert 1960: <br>
1961: <hr>
1.9 millert 1962: <a name=30></a>
1.33 deraadt 1963: <h2><font color="#00b000"><a href="30.html">
1964: 3.0: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"</a></font></h2>
1.11 deraadt 1965: <p>
1966: <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
1967: <tr>
1.76 deraadt 1968: <td valign="top" width="33%">
1.33 deraadt 1969: <a href="orders.html">[Order OpenBSD 3.0 or other items]</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1970: OpenBSD 3.0 CD2 track 2 is an<br>
1971: uncompressed copy of this song.<br>
1972: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1973: 3:00 minutes
1974: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.mp3">(MP3 2.9MB)</a>
1975: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song30.ogg">(OGG 2.3MB)</a><br>
1.11 deraadt 1976: <br>
1.76 deraadt 1977: <a href="images/Rock.jpg">
1978: <img width=255 height=323 alt="Rock" src="images/Rock.jpg"></a>
1.11 deraadt 1979: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.76 deraadt 1980: <br>
1981: <br>
1.9 millert 1982: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
1983: Don't tell anyone I'm free<br>
1.8 millert 1984: <p>
1.9 millert 1985: During these hostile and trying times and what-not<br>
1986: OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense<br>
1.8 millert 1987: <p>
1.9 millert 1988: I'm secure by default<br>
1.8 millert 1989: <p>
1.27 deraadt 1990: They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety<br>
1.9 millert 1991: deserve neither liberty nor safety<br>
1.8 millert 1992: <p>
1.9 millert 1993: RELEASE TIME!!!!<br>
1.8 millert 1994: <p>
1.16 deraadt 1995: Stay off, stay off, stay off...<br>
1.9 millert 1996: I'm secure by default<br>
1997: stay off, stay off, stay off<br>
1.8 millert 1998: <br>
1.11 deraadt 1999: </td><td valign=top width="33%">
1.8 millert 2000: <br>
1.11 deraadt 2001: </td></tr></table>
2002: <p>
1.8 millert 2003: <em>
1.9 millert 2004: By The Plaid Tongued Devils. Produced & Arranged by Ty Semaka & Wynn Gogol.
2005: <br>
2006: Written & Performed by Gordon Chipp Robb (bass line),
1.35 nick 2007: John McNiel (drums), Ty Semaka (vocals & lyrics), and Wynn Gogol (programming).
1.9 millert 2008: <br>
2009: Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Wynn Gogol of Workshop Recording Studios (Victoria BC).
1.8 millert 2010: <br>
1.9 millert 2011: Check out <a href="http://www.thedevils.com">http://www.thedevils.com</a>
1.8 millert 2012: </em>
2013:
1.1 deraadt 2014: <hr>
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