I’m actually a few days late pointing at this, as it came out a few days ago. Anyway, the most-recent-at-this-point Garbage podcast is out, talking about VAX going away, and ends with a good note about donations, and how just giving your pocket change helps.
If you’re somewhere around Michigan tomorrow around 7 PM, Michael W. Lucas is presenting at the SEMIBUG meeting, on FreeBSD filesystems. See the group site for location.
I had too many links for this as early as Tuesday.
- A perspective on the state of the SSLiverse as of early 2016. (via the author on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- In defense of Unix. (via)
- The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science. (via)
- SIGGRAPH 2016 – Computer Animation Festival Submissions. (via)
- An interactive and audio history of interactive fiction. This can eat some hours. (via)
- A Configuration Management Rosetta Stone. 1 program, 4 systems. (via)
- An explanation of database indexes. Using PostgreSQL, but probably near-universal. (also via)
- I knew but I didn’t really know there were so many named maneuvers in chess, and here’s a whole lot of visualization of them. (via)
- Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors: “you take it for granted that someone, somewhere is breaking everything he possibly can” (via)
- Announcing SQL Server on Linux. It was this, or losing relevancy within 5 years. (via)
- A Robot That Has Fun at Telemarketers’ Expense. Similar to Lenny. (via)
- Is group chat making you sweat? A good point on attention as a limited resource. (via)
- @Play 84: The Rescue of Meta-Zelda. Randomized Roguelike Legend of Zelda is a somewhat crazy, exciting concept to me.
- There’s a third game in the Infinite Space series out – Sea of Stars. The first game is one of the best space-theme roguelikes out there.
Your unrelated video link of the week: Rotoscoped Horse. Taken from the old Muybridge photos. (via)
Has anyone been watching the AsiaBSDCon video? I have not been awake/unbusy at the right times.
- Installing Qemu on FreeBSD 10. (via)
- To SLOG or not to SLOG: How to best configure your ZFS Intent Log.
- *BSD Developers Have a New Hosting Option with RootBSD. (via)
- Proactive Security & (re)discovering OpenBSD. (via)
- Bitcoin Devs Could Learn a Lot from BSD.
- “Will lack of an easy to deploy container service like Docker push BSD distributions into irrelevance?” Lack of knowledge or trolling, can’t tell.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/03/07.
- New Video Tutorial on the Pipelight Plugin and Netflix in PC-BSD.
- OPNsense 16.1.6 released
- OpenBSD 5.9 songs released.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” in tech review. If you sponsored, you’d have it already. Michael W. Lucas has a new crime fiction book out, too.
- Xeon Developer Workstation. iXSystems builds BSD workstations, too.
- The VAX platform is no more, for OpenBSD. Aww.
- Building a Distributed Hypervisor on FreeBSD. (via)
If you find yourself using gpt and disklabel64 for a new disk, and aren’t quite sure what order to type everything in to create a disk slice, why not crib from Tim Darby’s notes? (note that the archive has added some line breaks to it.)
BSDNow 132 is up, titled “Scaling up with BSD“, with an interview of host Allan Jude about ScaleEngine, plus a bunch of news links. There isn’t the usual longer writing because they are currently at AsiaBSDCon, and I saw that there are streaming links for the events there. Look at the schedule, watch, and I hope there’s saved video too.
The ‘hammer show’ command can be used to dump the B-Tree structure of a Hammer volume, and CRC errors can be spotted. It’s rare that anyone would need it, but if you do, this dumped information will include file hierarchy information.
If that makes you a bit nervous to repost any of that information when talking about it in public, Tomohiro Kusumi has added an ‘obfuscate’ option to ‘hammer show’ that does just that – it hides path information from the debug output.
Sepherosa Ziehau has continued his quest of making large-scale data transmission on DragonFly effortless; his latest change has cut the kqueue contention rate by two-thirds when dealing with a connection rate of nearly 400,000 connections per second. Note that’s number of connections, without even tracking the bandwidth used by each.
John Marino rearranged how GCC5 handles CPUTYPE settings. If you are specifically setting the target CPU when compiling, his commit will give you an exact list of what to target.
Note that I am not saying another architecture – this is all x86_64. I also don’t recommend doing this unless you have a specific use for it – compiler overoptimizations often create more problems than they fix.
All over the map this week.
- VT100 Terminal Art: old text-based animations you can run in your terminal. (via)
- Free security advice. Generally correct, and not so in-depth you can’t hand it to most anyone. (via)
- A project to resurrect Unix on the PDP-7 from a scan of original assembly code. (via)
- Refurbishing A 1927 Switchboard. I like the way very old electronics smell, strange as that may seem. (via)
- Y2K Futurism, or what people thought the future would look like 1996-2002. (via)
- NexDock, or a phone/laptop dock device. This is getting pretty close to the ‘seamless’ device version I have in my head. (via)
- The Five Stages of NoSQL. (via)
- GNU complexity 1.5. Someone run this on a BSD. (via)
- The past and future are here. It’s just not evenly distributed (yet). (via)
Your unrelated link of the week: teasmades, 50% off with the code ‘MOTHERSDAY2016’ until March 9th. Given the difference in US – UK voltage, I don’t know if this would be a good investment for me, but I’d sure like to have one.
I hope you have some time for reading this week.
- BSDCan: OpenBSD presentations.
- Linux Emulation goes to the great bitbucket of the sky.
- How do I find what is in the ports tree without installing?
- OpenSSH 7.2 released Feb 29, 2016. (via)
- Upcoming Features in GCC 6. Will this make it to a BSD other than maybe DragonFly? Dunno. (via)
- FreeBSD 10.3: Third Beta Available.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/02/29.
- X11 Forwarding with Kali Linux and bhyve. (via)
- Are BSD OS’ developed in the the open? If a device uses a lot of BSD, can it run XYZ?
- Who is the figurehead/rep/person who wrote BSDL? Ugh.
- Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones. (via)
- LibreSSL not affected by DROWN attack.
- OpenBSD 5.9 network improvements.
- Pre-orders for 5.9 are up! OpenBSD, if you weren’t sure.
- OPNsense 16.1.5 released.
- “it would have largely boiled down to the choice between a BSD family operating system or a Linux family operating system.“
- FreeBSD and NetBSD are in Google Summer of Code 2016.
- Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems. So many of these Linux problems aren’t even present on BSD. (via)
- NetBSD Core Team changes.
- NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2016 Tokyo/Spring.
Garbage 16 is out, with OpenBSD news and general tech talk. There’s apparently progress on Raspberry Pi 3 support.
(Podcasts tend to be timely, and time-dependent, so I’m not saving this for the weekend In Other BSDs)
Daniel Bilik has found there’s an issue with i915 acceleration, Baytrail CPUs, and some AUTODEEP low-power states. This will only affect you if you are using that specific hardware combo and setting certain low power modes. Interestingly, it affects other platforms, too, as it appears to be a symptom of how the video is addressed, not a DragonFly-specific bug.
BSDNow 131 is out, and has an interview of Jamie McParland, on I assume the topic of BSD in school environments, guessing by the title and guest’s email address. It has the normal summary of news items, including explanations of load average I think many people would find useful.
I almost missed this: There’s a NYCBUG meeting tonight, at 6:45 PM, at the Stone Creek Bar and Lounge in New York City. The presentation will be from Raul Cuza, titled “BSD init(8) and rc(8): Room for Improvement?“. I imagine there will be an opportunity to complain about systemd’s very existence, at this meeting.