June 2017 – DragonFly BSD Digest

If you are interested in AES-GCM, and didn't have to look it up on Wikipedia, and could implement it in the aesni(4) module - tell Sepherosa Ziehau.

BSDNow has reached the magic 200 episode mark, and this week they cover a nice wide range of topics - including Illumos!

If you happen to get missing shared library errors when running something installed via dports, you may have installed during a short period where this previously mentioned bug had bit. The fix is to replace with known good binaries, completely.

There's an update for the i915 (Intel) driver that is mostly of interest to you if you have a more recent processor. It looks to be mostly bugfixes.

If you're looking for hardware RAID on DragonFly, here's some brief notes on what should work. Areca and LSI are the hardware names to watch for. The person who asked the original question pointed to earlier benchmarks, which I may have linked before.

Only half a year until Christmas!

Base-4 fractions in Telugu.
Custom Built "Commute Deck". (via)
VMS Software's OpenVMS Rolling Roadmap. VMS won't die. (via)
One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Xerox Alto. (via)
Git remote branches and Git's missing terminology.
Same source - Git's rejected push error.
Archive it or you will miss it. (via)
The cutest palm-sized Apple II Computer. (via)
Rations for various RPG Races. (via)
Neural networks can name guinea pigs.
This is Spinal Map. (via)
Burrowing a Gopher Hole. The state of Gopher in 2017.
Statistical Analysis of Yorkshire Pudding. One could create a sort of "ur-pudding" based on this, I suppose - but I bet it would the least interesting variation.

Your unrelated video link of the week: time for sushi. A followup to going to the store and late for meeting. (via)

Back to overflow, which sort of makes my life easier.

BCHS: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite. Linked before, so comments on source links are where to look if you are already familiar with BHCS.
Possible stack vulnerabilities in BSD-land.
How to disable cores in OpenBSD?
Nextcloud via httpd on OpenBSD. (via)
MP-safe Networking in NetBSD. PDF, from BSDCan. (via)
BSDCan 2017 Recap from iXSystems.
Unix in Europe: between innovation, diffusion and heritage. October 19th, Paris, France. (via)
The Stack Clash, via many places.
pkgsrcCon 2017, in one week.
PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber? Note that this is for BSD-based, server-based routers. Follow the thread for lots of hardware talk.
OpenBSD now has Trapsleds to make life harder for ROPers.

Should you need have Ubiquiti devices, and you need to get the Unifi management program running on your DragonFly server, this script will work for you. Some of the filepaths are different, but it's otherwise complete.

No interview in this week's BSDNow, but there's a good run through recent BSD news, including some talk about a "Aeronix" machine project, which led me to some other interesting links.

Thanks to Imre Vadasz, your Haswell, Atom SoCs, Skylake, and Kaby Lake CPUs will now recognize the ig4 device on the associated motherboard. I think it does something with ACPI? I have always been hazy on smbus device functions.

The weather's nice but the links aren't stopping!

The future of education is plain text. (via)
Compiling the Original Commodore 64 KERNAL Source. (via)
Getting a working toilet in a video game. (via)
Harvey OS, a descendent of Plan9. (via)
Pointer Overflow Checking is in LLVM.
Shanzhai Archeology. I like the multi-SIM phones. (via)
200-odd developer tools.
How is GNU `yes` so fast?
The smell of bad software.
‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ book structures. (via)
What the jot command can do for you.
How gaming got its dice. (via)
Apple IIe Design Guidelines [pdf]. The human interface section is still relevant. (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Mister Hayden Comics.

All found-this-week links, now.

BSDNow 198 is now available, almost all about the just-finished BSDCan.

Matthew Dillon noted some OpenVPN problems, requiring him to disable compression. I don't think this is a DragonFly problem, or even necessarily a BSD problem, but it's worth mentioning in case you run it.

All over the map today.

$3,200 per month for 5 megabytes of space: the first hard drives.
csv,conf,v3, a cleverly named data conference. (via)
Silicon Graphics' IRIX and Magic Desktop return as Linux desktop. Nostalgia! (via)
C64 Yourself. C64 palette applied to a picture. (via)
Strategy headroom in roguelikes. (via)
WiFi232 – An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer. (via)
ESR Shares A Forgotten 'Roots Of Open Source' Moment From 1984.
Plan9-9k: 64-bit Plan 9. (via)
Leave Britney's Command and Control Server Alone! Many places linked to this, but this is the best link text. (via)
How Thou Canst Maketh a Fine Program in Fortran. (via)
Best Board Games of Essen 2016. Complex games, too. (via)
Warren Ellis's podcast subscription list.

Unrelated link of the week: I Love Butter Tarts. If you've never encountered a butter tart, you should. Found via the Midland Butter Tart Festival, which I am disappointed to have missed.

I think I've finally caught up on my BSD link backlog.

Radeon hardware support in DragonFly has been moved up to match what's in the Linux 4.7.10 kernel. If you have a R9 290 GPU, there's some tweaks you may need. (n.b. may be unnecessary now from later commits; I don't have the hardware to check.)

Slightly earlier than normal because of the magic of prerecording, BSDNow 197 is up and has an interview with Michael W. Lucas about his books. (I'm hoping for interviews from BSDCan next week.)

Apparently there's a missing dhclient feature in DragonFly needed to run on OpenStack. Matthew Dillon's made a change to get it to work - though I can't find the exact commit.

For some reason I am completely unfamiliar with this standard, but UHS-1 support for Secure Digital cards has been ported to DragonFly by Imre Vadasz, for a limited range of models. UHS stands for "Ultra High Speed", so perhaps it's clear what that standard does for you.