Francois Tigeot is going to be giving a talk about the DragonFly graphics stack at EuroBSDCon 2017. (14:00 September 21st in Paris) Registration is already closed because I didn’t realize how soon it was happening – sorry!
Seventies/Eighties computing, this week.
- books chapter ten
- Eclipses and decibels.
- Twenty-plus years on, SMTP callbacks are still pointless and need to die.
- Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons. First comment in the source link is great.
- The Icewind Dale Problem. Related to previous link. (via)
- The Enduring Legacy of Zork. (via)
- Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading. (via)
- Noticed in the same place, in an article about VERB and NOUN buttons: People are patching the code for the Apollo 11 guidance computer. People apparently can’t help patching code.
- Interface, a decent non-serif, non-monospaced font. (via)
- So You Want to Read… A Guide to Sci-Fi and Fantasy Subgenres. (via I lost it, sorry!)
- The Return of the Cray files (2013-2016) (via)
- Arithmetic for Beginners. (via via)
- 1976 word processor error messages. They sound exactly right. (via)
- Having Played Every Adventure From the 1970s, Some Thoughts. (via)
- 6502cloud – Bringing the 80’s to the cloud. (via)
- Software development 450 words per minute. (via)
- The Light Phone. (via)
Lots of links this week – so many I’ve already started next week’s post.
- FreeBSD 10.4-BETA available. I’m prewriting this part of the post so there may be a new beta by the time this publishes.
- Introducing sandboxfs.
- “TIL GhostBSD has a patreon” (via)
- OpenBSD rtables and rdomains. (via)
- Setting up OpenBSD’s LDAP Server (ldapd) with StartTLS and SASL. (via)
- Ansible OpenBSD Cookbooks. (via)
- This crazy hardware porting example thread led me to some new hardware, some of which may run a BSD? The Pinebook is apparently bootable but I don’t know if that means usable.
- Also: using the audio port for serial? First time I heard of that. (referring to previous crazy hardware links above)
- Eventually all packaging systems eat an operating system. And then they aren’t packaging systems any more. (via)
- DFS with Freenas for data replication between multiple sites?
- openbsd changes of note 627
- yet another introduction to yacc
- OpenBSD 6.1, a an overview.
For your audiovisual pleasure: BSDNow 209: “Signals: gotta catch ‘em all“, and garbage[42]: Interview with Purism’s Todd Weaver are both available now. Watch/download and listen on your (in the US) extended weekend.
Here’s a detailed writeup from Aaron LI on how to get a DragonFly system onto an IPv6 network.
Update: He also supplied an example pf ruleset that solved some IPv6 throughput problems for his VPS.
Pulled from a longer thread: x.x.1 update instructions for DragonFly.
Probably old hat to most readers, but I like to see this documented, and the hw.ncpu ‘trick’ is nice.
I finally used up my overflow links.
- Dusty Decks: Preserving historic software. (via)
- Moore’s Law, from Rodney Brooks and from ACM. (via)
- All you need to know about Unix environment variables.
- A Unix Person’s Guide to PowerShell. (via)
- Nodes of Yesod: ZX Spectrum Next – developer blog episode 2.
- Steve Jackson’s Ogre rumbles onto PC in October. Linked solely because I found the original asymmetric board game fascinating. And never played it.
- Getting an Amiga 1000 Online. (via)
- How to Hand Letter Like an Architect. I took several technical drawing classes … 20 years ago? It still affects my handwriting.
- Debugging DNS. (via)
- Best option for modern X server on Windows?
- books chapter nine
- Carry a Little More to Waste a Little Less. Good advice, but get a folding utensil set; it’s much easier to deal with.
- The HERE IS key. (via)
Your odd video link of the week: what if the Doctor Who theme was composed by John Carpenter, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, or Tangerine Dream? (via)
The new look on undeadly.org sure is nice.
- RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in exploit mitigation, is about to debut.
- Can a BSD system replicate the performance of high-end router appliance? Benchmarking would A: show the answer and B: I bet show that the throughput needs of the poster were not as high as they thought.
- Which Unix had the first package manager?
- FreeBSD 10.4-BETA1 Available.
- subversion via ssh passphrase-less key. Really about capturing DNS changes.
- deraadt@ moves us to 6.2-beta!
- t2k17 Hackathon Reports: Daniel Jakots on updating ports, Nagios OpenBGPD plugin and…, Ian Sutton on ARM progress, My first time (Aaron Bieber), Philip Guenther: locking and libc, Andrew Hewus Fresh on Perl and Coffee, and No lock no cry… with CTF! (Martin Pieuchot).
- Kernel syspatches will soon be smaller thanks to KARL.
- PFsense <-> EdgeOS IPSec tunnels.
- Faster forwarding.
- AF3e status, 22 August 2017. That’s ‘Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition’.
- The Manifest – A podcast all about package management. I’m sure this will include BSD packaging systems at some point. (via)
- BSDCan 2017 videos have started being uploaded. (via)
No interview this week, but BSDNow 208 notes a certain recent software release and also links to something I’ve always wanted to see – a BSD games site. It’s OpenBSD oriented, but it probably applies pretty evenly across all the BSDs.
I was reminded of this thanks to the Google Calendar entry: SemiBUG is having their monthly meeting tomorrow night (the 22nd, in case that’s tonight by the time you read this), and it’s one of my favorite formats – a series of lightning talks with 2 slides, 5 minutes.
There will be a bootable, single-image version of HAMMER2 in the next DragonFly release. Matthew Dillon has a note about what will be in place at that point, and you can always look at the recent commits.
A new episode of garbage has heaved forth, with an interview of Patrick Wildt from the recent Toronto hackathon.
This is overflow from last week’s overflow.
- Can we please do useful things with software? (via)
- Morrow Micronix Operating System User’s Manual (1983) Section 1.1 is called “Confusion Relief” and it gets better from there. (via)
- Cultural items as clickbait. Pictures!
- Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator. Use with a tiling window manager for maximum tile level. Tile-ception! (via)
- HyperCard On The Archive. (via)
- a repo upon the deep
- The world in which IPv6 was a good design.
- Where TCL and TK went wrong. (via)
- The NOVA filesystem. (via)
- The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design. (via)
- The quitting economy. (also via)
- My 100 Favorite Programming, Math, Physics and Science Books: Part Seven. I have book 33 on this list and really like it.
Your web game of the week: Sword Shop. Unity, so not sure where it can run other than Windows, unfortunately. (via)
I think I managed to avoid any theme this week.
- Smartisan Makes Another Iridium Donation to the OpenBSD Foundation. A phone manufacturer I was not familiar with.
- Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum.
- “If you do all the work, you can perform magic. But if you are asking others to help, nope.” (via)
- How to BSD + Plasma 5?
- t2k17 Hackathon Report: Bob Beck on buffer cache tweaks, libressl and pledge progress.
- t2k17 Hackathon Report: Ted Unangst OpenBSD with more ptys.
- The history of *nix package management.
- Undeadly to be Upgraded Next Week. To this!
This happened a while ago, and I’m just catching up to it: the virtio_scsi(4) driver has been added to DragonFly; ported from FreeBSD and worked on by a number of people. ‘man virtio‘ if you want background.
This week’s BSDNow talks about the recent BSD convention in Cambridge (which I somehow did not know about until afterwards), plus lots of other talk, and a link to this entertaining terminal emulator.
“gee, we have a 6-digit PID, might as well make it work to a million!”
Here’s the first of several commits to support this, and here’s the highest load averages I’ve ever seen.
Overflow!
- Toward A More Useful X Keyboard. (via)
- My $169 development Chromebook. (via)
- Class Apples, an album made entirely on the Apple ][ – in 2017. (via)
- CES, 1987. “2 new Betamax players hitting the market this summer…” etc. etc. (via)
- Programming in the 1960s. A slide deck of personal experience. (via)
- books chapter six, books chapter seven, books chapter eight.
- Unix: dealing with signals.
- How are users choosing their passwords on the internet?
- Everything is an HTTPS interface. (via)
- Better spelling with aspell. a reminder that a spell checker can always be available.
- Let ‘localhost’ be localhost. I guess people need to be reminded. (via)
- Text Editor Performance Comparison. (via)
- The Return of the Hipster PDA. (via)
Questions are this week’s accidental theme.
- Beta Update – Request for (more) Testing. (undeadly)
- UMPC compatible with BSD’s?
- Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (v2). (via)
- Any BSD with Skylake and Gnome?
- openbsd changes of note 626.
- htop. Mentioned because there is at least a passing BSD reference.
- BSDCam 2017 Trip Report: Michael Lucas. (via)
- August SemiBUG meeting rescheduled to the 22nd.
- From a comment here: discussion of the FreeBSD release process, from a heavy user.
- upcoming hackathon proposal: NYC BSD Tor bridges. Those monoculture stats for Tor are not good for Tor.
If you are running DragonFly on a Ryzen CPU, this commit will fix (work around?) a hardware bug. I have not looked at how other operating systems may be addressing it, but it may be interesting to contrast.