A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
I did this last year and the year before, so why not make a habit of it? I get no commissions; these are mostly places I’ve shopped or plan to shop. It’s based on “This would be SO COOL to have”, and nothing else. General: Nerditry: Newegg, ThinkGeek, Leatherman Wave, ISC.org (see 9-layer OSI model …
For those of you doing last-minute holiday shopping – like me: see previous years of gift links. There’s also a number of comics lists, book lists, and game guides. And of course, donations.
Shopping! This is the big holiday shopping weekend in the US, and I usually put together something here. Buy an SSD for someone who doesn’t have one – including you if that’s the case. There’s better and worse SSDs out there, but you’ll get a speed benefit no matter what, and other bonuses are possible. …
There are some stealth links here to much more reading, if you look carefully. mepo, Open Street Map data app. I didn’t think something like OSM could be built collectively but I am glad to be wrong. (via) I will pay you cash to delete your npm module. What is not portable. IBM 5110 Emulator. …
I’m not planning a holiday gift guide this year, though they are fun to do. You can always check previous ones; I try to link to stores rather than individual items. Six Ways to Level Up Your nmap Game. (via) Controlling the Spice, Part 3: Westwood’s Dune. The first real RTS. Choosing error codes based …
I do this almost every year, with a little bit more every time. Check those previous years for non-comics/books, cause that’s most of what I’ve seen lately. I’ve recently seen a number of comics lists: Comics/books: Wondermark gift guide – Wondermark store and cards – Dr. McNinja store – Schlock Mercenary guide – Spacetrawler (scroll down) …
Another week, another linkpile. Here’s some old software. I’ve got something older sitting on my shelf here, though. A patch to DragonFly, taken from OpenBSD, submitted by Loganaden Velvindron and committed by Venkatesh Srinivas. The patch isn’t that exciting, but it makes me feel cool to namedrop non-Americanized names. If only I could pronounce them! Speaking …
There’s some gift ideas in here. The Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute. Styles and time periods. (via) d20 Orbs. Robot Arm Clock. Entertainingly dumb. (via) postmarketOS, an indirect explanation. SerenityOS, an indirect explanation. Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time. (via) Related and same source: r/selfhosted. Have Vint Cerf tell you …
Today is my birthday, so I have a gift for you: a lot of reading! Don’t panic and keep forking Debian. It leads to devuan.org. For a fork to succeed, they need positive reasons to exist, not just a definition of what it’s not. (via) Advent Planet. Follow it, find your interest topic, get something …
This is a mini-theme Lazy Reading, where I find small groups of related things. Exploratory data analysis with Unix tools. The command line is a far better place to mangle data than you’d expect. Well, maybe not your expectations, given that you’re reading this site. “The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive” Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, and …
The end of year shopping season is on many of us again. I did this last year, and it seemed useful, so here’s another geeky holiday shopping guide. For DragonFly material, there’s a number of places that will ship you a CD/DVD. If you want a computer hardware gift, but your friends/family don’t know that …