A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Link text back to normal. C++ Shanty. (via) The theory and form of classic drum patterns. Interesting cause I’ve never seen drum patterns visualized before. (via) Telehack, which I have linked to before, but not since 2011. Still super-complex. (reminded via) 50 Years of Text Games: 1972: Rocket and 1973: Hunt the Wumpus. How Gumroad works. …
I might have a job open at my workplace soon, for a junior admin/support/network role. (Department is too small for narrowly defined roles…) I’ll post about it here if it happens. libguestfs, ‘tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images’. (via) I can think of a lot of places that could be useful. I …
A light week. School’s nearly out in the States, so I expect the Internets to be quieter. Another open-source compiler suite. Maybe parts of it were open before? I don’t know; all I have to go on is a press release. Remember when there was GCC or nothing? Read this; it will show you just …
Short but good this week. I always enjoy seeing other people’s window configs, even if I don’t use them. The CCBY license is very similar to the BSD license – and there’s some big institutions using it. That is good news for everyone. I linked to telehack before, but I didn’t realize how huge it …
This week: lots more reading! Michael Lucas describes an extra layer of protection for when you can’t force public key usage on every SSH user. Cool, but obscure Unix tools (via) The screenshots are all from a Mac… How many of the 24 tools listed are in pkgsrc/pkgsrc-wip? Almost all of them. (tpp sounds entertaining.) …