Welcome to the new OpenBSD Journal
From 2000 to April 1st 2004, this journal was well known as
deadly.org.
The administrators and editors
James (Jim) Phillips and
Jose Nazario did a great job,
providing a valuable service for the OpenBSD community for years.
On April 1st 2004, much to the surprise and confusion of most readers, they announced the retirement of the journal. Initially, people didn't realize they weren't just pulling an April's fool joke, but were dead serious.
When reality dawned upon the readers, there were two questions. What happens to the existing archive of articles and comments? And who is going to step in and fill the gap? Initially, I just wanted to copy the web pages in case the original server would suddenly dissappear completely. Studying the PHP generated pages, relatively simple patterns emerged, and I started writing a CGI that would allow to browse the archive backup read-only, to preserve the over 1100 articles and 14000 comments, which might otherwise be lost.
Jim and Jose kindly gave permission to use the archive, those articles and comments are copyright of their respective authors. So the primary goal, preserving the vast pool of information and entertainment from the original OpenBSD Journal is achieved. I'd like to thank both Jim and Jose for their hard work during all those years, and for allowing their work to be preserved here. Thank you!
Well, it turned out that adding support for submitting new articles and comments wasn't much of a deal after that, so here's my proposal for a new OpenBSD Journal. There's much to be done, both in code features and, most importantly, in editing new articles. Volunteers are most welcome, drop us a mail. -- Daniel Hartmeier, April 9th 2004
Editors
| Id | Name | Comment |
If you're an editor and not listed above, login, edit preferences and set some web site (only accounts with non-empty web sites are shown here).
Contributors
| Date | Name | Contribution |
| 2008.04.17 | Colin Didier | Source patch (last-read marker for logged in users) |
| 2007.04.12 | Pedro Almeida | Sponsored domain registrar fees |
| 2006.10.11 | Nate Montague | NDA witch icon |
| 2005.05.20 | Henrik Hellerstedt | Improved pf topic image |
| 2004.09.20 | Nick Holland | HTML patch (vlink/alink colors) |
| 2004.08.17 | Chris Reid | HTML template patches (improve comment threading in IE) |
Want to contribute? Fetch the source tarball (see footer) and send in code or HTML patches or artwork. Or paypal some love to the editors.
Latest changes
| Date | Change |
| 2007.08.20 | IPv6 connectivity enabled, try http://ipv6.undeadly.org/ (2001:4830:155e::1) |
| 2006.12.21 | user account registration opened |
| 2006.05.15 | added captcha to submission form in response to repeated spamdalism |
| 2006.04.18 | quoting the replied-to comment, based on a patch from Sean Cody. See RFC 1855 about how to use this properly |
| 2006.01.02 | added RSS rate limiting |
| 2005.12.27 | patched thttpd some more, it now passes If-Modified-Since: from client to cgi, which generates status 304 (Not Modified) to save bandwidth. also make thttpd log the real status and bytes sent to the client from the cgi. log stats (see below) should be more accurate from now on. |
| 2004.08.19 | support polls |
| 2004.08.18 | support password changes (editors) |
| 2004.08.18 | fix loss of newlines on preview |
| 2004.08.18 | support plain-text submission |
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