A bumper crop of articles to read this week.

• Ruby went to a BSD license.  That’s nice to see.  Commence licensing argument in 3… 2…
• DragonFly BSD on Ohloh hasn’t been updated in months – it should be noticing new commits automatically.  Don’t know why.  Any more vigorous users of Ohloh that know why?
• “Which OSS clustered file system should I use?”  The commenters point out something that many people mix up: RAID redundancy is not backups.
• I always enjoy accounts of completely ineffective break-in attempts.
• In praise of “crap” technology.  I must admit, I love just looking at stuff like what Brando sells, or various surplus sites.  It’s never high-end fancy, but that is part of the appeal, as the linked article notes.
• Think of this speech the next time someone asks you for help online, no matter how accessible the answer.
• 20 years of Vim.  Vim started on the Amiga, of all places.  That would make vi itself about eleventy kajillion years old.  Does it predate the release of 1BSD?   I don’t know.  Looking at a BSD family tree to see what I could learn, I also found that QNX was originally QUNIX.  I didn’t know that either.  Everything leads back to UNIX, really.  I look forward to Jeremy C. Reed’s book about this early history…
• This electronic music site entertains me, for it is also available in amber.  (You have to have seen monochrome monitors circa 1982 or so to understand…)
• Speaking of 1982, you may enjoy Nintendo Legend, CRPG Addict, and Blogging Ultima.  (via trevorjk on #dragonflybsd IRC)

Random unrelated link for the week: “War Photographer“.  This animation makes me so happy.