I have such a surplus of links these days that I started this Lazy Reading two weeks ago.

• Setting Up spamd(8) With Secondary MXes In Play In Four Easy Steps.  Reprinted from bsdly.
• A Brief History of Videogames.  (via)  A 3 minute movie.
• Networking by Example with the Packet Construction Set.  An mp3 of the NYCBUG presentation from George Neville-Neil.  I wish I was just a little closer to NYC so I could attend these…  but then I’d be in Syracuse or Albany, and that’s not as cool as Rochester.
• I knew Interix existed, but I had never looked at it.  Apparently there’s community-created bundles of software to go with it.  I think pkgsrc works with it too.
• SSD prices appear to be crashing.  Now may be a good time to buy.  Having a SSD is possibly the bestest part of my work laptop.
• Buffers, Windows, and Tabs in Vim.  A good explanation for terms unfortunately used somewhat differently in Vim that you’d expect.  (via)
• Magenta, Darwin/BSD (so sorta FreeBSDish?) on top of Linux.  Quoted from page: “This is a very weird project.”  As time goes on, what you would think of as BSD goes through new mutations and growths.  (also via)
• Some selected BSD desktops.  XFCE seems to be the most popular; that may not be a surprise in an environment where you are compiling or installing yourself.  Various Linux distributions coming with a set desktop hide the pain of compiling all of GNOME/KDE from the user.  Whether that is good or bad is a matter of debate.
• I never heard the term troll-hugging before, but this description of how a caustic software community will become a smaller software community makes sense.  (via)
• This emulated VMSCluster setup cost probably close to $150.  It would have cost a quarter million or more when I was in college.  (via)
• It’s a Learning Perl book, from Wrox.  But the whole thing appears to be available online at O’Reilly’s site for free?  I’m not sure what that is.
• Zork 1 played via Twitter.
• The Interrupted Unix FAQ.  (via)  Funny, but probably also a good thing to memorize.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Elfquest, every issue ever.  The dialogue is cheesy but the original art is fun, in a way that grabbed me when I read it at 10 years of age.