It’s now possible to pick which sort of compression you want to use for dsynth packages – xz is the default, but you can go gzip for speed.
SeMiBUG meeting, tonight
SeMiBUG meets tonight, 7 PM, Altair Engineering. Go, if you are near.
(not sure about capitalization on semibug…)
The Digest and TeleVideo
Thanks to Erik Blomberg and the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, I now know the Digest has reached a whole new operating system: CP/M. This entertains me.
(It’s the Digest being browsed in text mode on a TeleVideo TS-803, if you can’t see the screen well enough.)
Lazy Reading for 2019/10/13
A mix of complaints, history, and odd technical items. The usual!
- Unsung Beauty of Analog Devices Datasheets. (via)
- Managing passwords using ed and gpg2. Because: no tempfile.
- Adding redirection to the gopher protocol.
- How Long Will Unbreakable Commercial Encryption Last? Readers of a certain age will remember how PGP was briefly export controlled; also remember that history rhymes. (via)
- How my application ran away and called home from Redmond. (Thanks, Heiko Kuhrt)
- Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast about audio. (via)
- The tiniest FatMac. (really a console and an emulator, but that’s fine.)
- Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual. (via)
- 93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs. This is not the throwaway joke it sounds like. (via)
- ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision. Chessboards are natural placemarkers. (via)
- Wackaging, a trend I hope will end. (via)
- The Fantasy of Opting Out. (via)
- Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019. (via)
- James Mickens’ Tenure Announcement. It is exactly as wonderful as you would think. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2019/10/12
I’m sure there’s some recent stuff I missed; I will catch it in next week’s roundup.
- SeMiBUG meets Tuesday the 15th.
- FreeNAS datasets and snapshots.
- Defense at Scale. There’s a BSD system in there. (via)
- History of UNIX Design and Interfaces. BSD history mixed in. (via)
- 1 day / 1 game: solene@ playing Unexplored on OpenBSD. Links to FLV.
- OpenSSH 8.1 released. (via)
- Care and Feeding of OpenBSD Porters. (via)
- By the numbers: ZFS Performance Results from Six Operating Systems and Their Derivatives. This and following are vBSDCon 2019 videos. (via)
- Transitioning from FreeNAS to FreeBSD. (via)
- In-Kernel TLS Framing and Encryption for FreeBSD. (via)
- 20 Years of FreeBSD Jails. Last video. (via)
- Ken Thompson’s Unix password. He doesn’t need it. (via)
- OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits. (via)
- Porting NetBSD to the AMD x86-64: a case study in OS portability. Old news but why not. (via)
- Resurrecting Ancient Operating Systems on Debian, Raspberry Pi, and Docker. Very early BSD. (via)
- FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google Pixelbook. (via)
- Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance. Can’t tell if they are doing this on FreeBSD or not. (via)
Bay Area FreeBSD Summit now
Posting this now cause tomorrow’s too late: the 2019 Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor and Developer Summit is happening today and tomorrow. Go, if you are near.
msdos fixes, of all things
Tomohiro Kusumi has been bringing in a large number of fixes to the msdos filesystem, mostly from FreeBSD, but from other sources. I’m not going to link to them all, cause there’s many over the last few weeks, but the good news is that there’s performance gains for this lowest-common-denominator filesystem.
BSD Now 319: Lack Rack, Jack
This week’s BSD Now is up, with a nice general range of topics, including the perennial Lack Rack idea.
BSD.nrw meetup tomorrow
The BSD.nrw Dusseldorf-Wersten BSD user’s group is meeting tomorrow at 19:00 at The Schalander. It probably helps if you speak German; I had to rely on Google Translate for this one. Go, if you are near.
ChiBUG meeting tomorrow
ChiBUG meets tomorrow, the 8th. Go, if you are near Chicago.
Lazy Reading for 2019/10/06
Pre-posted in advance cause once again working through the weekend.
- BBSes: Partying Online Like It’s 1989. (via)
- The 25th Interactive Fiction Competition is Open.
- After Dark has been ported to Twitter.
- Text Rendering Hates You. (via)
- A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer. Wonderful pictures, as always.
- Feast of Legends. A RPG from the Wendy’s fast food chain. It’s a legit PDF rulebook, and looks like a D&D-style product, but everything is themed to match Wendy’s food. It’s bizarre. (via)
- This to That, answering how to glue two different substances together. Really! (via)
- Media Accounting 101: Appholes and Contracts, a long read about reading.
- Springer’s History of Computing series. Seriously in-depth; this is research, not light entertainment. (via)
- How to remove a part of a video using ffmpeg.
- “Night of the Lepus” was based on a book? Excellent use of the interrobang, and also you should see this movie.
- Reminiscences on 5.25? floppy drives of the early 1980’s.
Your unrelated video link of the week: Scratch. I saw this in the theater a while ago, and I didn’t realize the whole thing was on Youtube. It’s turntablism at its peak. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2019/10/05
There’s been a lot of BUG meetings lately; I think it’s time to form some more.
- Fixing up KA9Q-unix, or “neck deep in 30 year old codebases..” Packet radio!
- ZFS performance really does degrade as you approach quota limits.
- How To Set Up Buildbot on FreeBSD. (via)
- Next ChiBUG meeting: October 8th. I’ll post a reminder.
- pkgsrc-2019Q3 is out.
- Fuzzing Filesystems on NetBSD via AFL+KCOV. (PDF, via)
- NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack. (via)
- OPNsense 19.7.4 released.
- Project Trident 12-U8 available.
- FreeBSD 12.1-beta2 available.
sysupgrade(8)Added to OpenBSD 6.5.- OpenBSD moving towards 6.6.
- Valuable News – 2019/10/01.
- Cannot destroy ‘pool/data’: dataset already exists.
- Support for the sgi platform discontinued. (OpenBSD)
BSD Now 318: The TrueNAS Library
This week’s BSDNow, number 318, “The TrueNAS Library“, covers some links I’ve picked up before but also has BSD and presidential library news, an uncommon combo.
Reminder: set hostname
You should set hostname in /etc/rc.conf. I am mentioning this now because not doing it kept me from running X apps from a DragonFly system on a Windows 10 system with vcxsrv, and I wasted half an hour of my life figuring that out. Apparently this is a lesson I need to keep relearning.
NYCBUG tonight: Plan 9
Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, presented by Ori Bernstein, is happening tonight at the ever-mighty NYCBUG. Go, if you are near.
Watching dsynth go
dsynth(1) has a new ‘monitor’ command, which watches log output and tells you what it’s doing. I haven’t tried it yet, so I am only guessing. A screenshot would be nice.
KnoxBUG tonight: home labs
KnoxBUG meets tonight, with home labs being the topic. Go, if you are near.
Lazy Reading for 2019/09/29
You may be able to tell one of my link sources changed RSS feeds, so I had some catchup to do this week.
- What is “DCC SEND startkeylogger”? (via)
- Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case. (via)
- Imaging Floppies. (via)
- Just Delete Me. (via)
- ReMarkable review. Has anyone used one of these recently?
- Explanations, about X and beyond. (via)
- Recent News in Narrative Games.
- What Happened to the Real Time Strategy Genre and When games grow and time passes.
- It’s almost XScreenSaver in clock form.
- Bits vs. Things.
- Gastropod facts. I greatly enjoy this podcast.
- Reverse-engineering precision op amps from a 1969 analog computer. Worth it for the pictures alone.
- Risky line printer music on a vintage IBM mainframe.
In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28
Note there’s several BUG meetings coming up.
- KnoxBUG meets Monday, talking about home labs.
- Pure sh bible. POSIX sh, not bashisms, for once. (via)
- ZFS is not a universal filesystem that is always good for all workloads. Neither is HAMMER. It’s interesting to think of the edge cases.
- Taking NetBSD kernel bug roast to the next level: Kernel Fuzzers (quick A.D. 2019 overview). (via)
- Next NYCBUG meeting: Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, with Ori Bernstein. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
- EuroBSDCon 2019.
- 1 day / 1 game : Red Alert with games/openra. It’s a FLV file.
- Playing Ion Fury on OpenBSD. Another FLV link.
- 1 day / 1 game on OpenBSD: Sword of the Stars: The Pit by thfr@.
- fnaify 2.0 out. (via)
- Project Trident 12U7 now available.
- List Block Devices on FreeBSD lsblk(8) Style.
- Valuable News – 2019/09/23.
- OpenBSD at EuroBSDcon 2019.
Your book plug of the week: “Of course, if you don’t want to sponsor a book on SNMP I can’t blame you for that either. It’s a horrible topic that most of us would rather pretend didn’t exist.“
Default jail variables change
The default variables for jails on DragonFly have changed; obviously this only affects you if you are running jails. Adjust your rc.conf as needed.