Month: September 2005

If you've only ever used to 'shutdown -h now' to halt a machine, Sepherosa Ziehau reminds that 'shutdown -p now' is the way to get the server powered off.

Joseph Garcia got to fight with tftp on DragonFly; he wrote down the rather torturous procedure he had to follow, which may help anyone else with a Cisco router that needs to be configured.

It's rather quiet lately... Why not spend some time clicking Hubert's links?

UnixReview.com has more than normal this week: 4 articles! There's a regex article titled "Regular Expressions: Two Easy Steps Better Than One Hard One", a writeup of: php | works Conference – Toronto Sept 14 – 16, 2005, a security article with the run-on title of "Computer Security, It’s Not About the Software", and a review of the book "Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard".

bsdnews.com, which redirected to daily.daemonnews.org, seems to be missing. www.daemonnews.org is still there, though the layout has changed.

OnLAMP.com/BSD has a new article up from FreeBSD Basics: "A finer-grained permissions system"

SANE 2006 will be held in May of next year; the initial call for papers is out. SANE = "System Administration and Network Engineering", if you didn't know.

Matthew Dillon has made available a preliminary start on his bug tracker, which he is apparently calling "dunebuggy".

Rob D. posted a link to a page that describes problems with MD5, a hashing algorithm.

Jeremy Reed found that there are some tricks to building world in a jail.

Reader LabThug helpfully pointed out that the blog at http://opensource.weblogsinc.com/ has been talking about the events at NYCBSDCON. Oh, I'm kicking myself for not going. Of special interest to readers here is a writeup on Jeffrey Hsu's DragonFly talk.

This week on UnixReview.com: reviews of the books "Mobile IP Technology and Applications" and "Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition", and a writeup of the card game "PySol".

Any readers go to NYCBSDCON? How was the event?

Emiel Kollof pointed out that Mustang is going to be the next release of Java; we have a chance to get some support for DragonFly in now.

Matthew Dillon didn't like the idea of a Java-based bug tracker, so he's rolling his own. As part of it, his Backplane databse will probably be used as the back-end for it, though under the GPL.

The 2006 USENIX Technical Conference, coming up at the end of next May, has issued a Call for Papers. If you want to present one, you need to have your paper done by mid-January.