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2016/07/232016/07/22

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/23

Adding a new “BUG” category, cause there’s enough ongoing BSD user group activity these days that it’s a reoccurring theme. That makes me happy.

2016/07/22

NVMe and IOPS

Matthew Dillon added NVMe support recently, and he also made some changes to DragonFly’s I/O system. His test system was able to reach over a million IOPS. That’s bananas!

2016/07/22

garbage[35]: Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution

Garbage 35 is up, with news about ChiBUG, an OpenBSD hackathon, and the ritual shaming of computer equipment.

2016/07/222016/07/21

HOPE starts today

HOPE starts today in New York City, and if you are going, there’s at least one BSD presence at the show that could use volunteers.

2016/07/21

BSD Now 151: Fuzzy Auditing

Fuzzing sounds cute, but it’s about finding security problems, not checking for adorable guinea pigs or llamas or something like that. It’s also episode 151 of BSDNow. It looks like there’s no specific interview this week, but plenty of interesting topics and links listed.

2016/07/21

i915 update to 4.4

the i915 support in DragonFly now matches the Linux 4.4 kernel, which is good news if you have a Broxton, Skylake, or Cherryview processor, plus it adds a variety of fixes.

2016/07/20

Looking at your battery

If you want to check battery life, ‘sysctl hw.acpi.battery.life’ may help, as Sepherosa Ziehau points out. I’ve always used ‘acpiconf -i 0‘, myself.

2016/07/19

UEFI install story

I like finding “This is how I did it” stories from people, as they are often really useful for anyone else trying to do the same “it”. Here’s Dave MacFarlane’s UEFI install story. (Note he’s still needing touchpad support.)

2016/07/172016/07/16

Lazy Reading for 2016/07/17

It’s a nerdy Lazy Reading today. Well, nerdier than usual, I think.

Favorite Networking Links? Help a TA! Multiple good links there.
UNIX Helps Put Out Fires.
How to Write a History of Writing Software. (via)
Canonical’s Snap: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. PC-BSD already did similar packaging – and stopped. (via)
Acorn and Amstrad. (via)
Dudley Buck’s Forgotten Cryotron Computer. (via)
Unix for Poets. (PDF, via)
Remembering Roger Faulkner, UNIX Legend. (via)
The Megaprocessor. That’s the biggest CPU ever I seen. (also via)
Biohacking for Newbies: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Getting an NFC Chip Implant.
bug.n. For those who like wmii, i3, Xmonad, and so on, but are stuck on Windows.
Surprising reasons to use a syntax-coloring editor.

2016/07/162016/07/16

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/16

I’m meeeeellllllltttinng!

About Devio.us
Let’s Encrypt client from BSD in C. (via)
ZFS Deadlock: ‘Directory of Death’. (via)
BSD vs. Linux (2005) Old, but new comments at the source link.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/07/11.
“PAM Mastery” tech reviewers wanted.
pkgsrc-2016Q2 is out.
Errata and patches released! OpenBSD.
my int is too big Related to previous link, I think.
TXLF 2016 Recap.
mandoc-1.13.4 released.
usermount being removed from OpenBSD.
Are you in Scottsdale, AZ, and want to talk about I assume fiction or BSD?
(late update) LibertyBSD 5.9 is out.

2016/07/15

Reminder: move your Hammer cleanup

A useful tip: if your DragonFly machine isn’t usually on 24/7 (e.g. a laptop, not a server), you should move your Hammer cleanup from 3 AM to sometime when the computer is normally on.

2016/07/152016/07/15

garbage[34]: Bursting with excitement

Among other things, garbage[34] brings up joshua stein’s desire to form a BSD user group near Chicago – contact him if you’re near.

2016/07/14

150th BSDNow, with a sprinkler

BSDNow has reached their I think semicentennial episode, “Sprinkle A Little BSD Into Your Life“. For this episode, they interview Jim Brown about BSD Certification and his FreeBSD-running sprinkler system, plus more news.

2016/07/13

UEFI booting and manual installation

karu.pruun shares a story of manually installing DragonFly on a UEFI-booting machine. In this case, it’s a Macbook, though there’s other non-fruit UEFI machines out there?

2016/07/12

Two tips for video and audio

That’s one tip per subject, really. If you need to set up a ‘video’ group for xorg, here’s the one-liner to do so. If PulseAudio annoys you, which is not uncommon, ‘chmod -x /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio’ and it’ll go away.

2016/07/11

ipfw3: lockless in-kernel NAT

It’s exactly what the title is: ipfw3 now does NAT in-kernel, without locking. I have no benchmarks to point at, unfortunately. The commit has usage examples.

2016/07/11

Any Mono/DragonFly users out there?

This is a specialized use case, but Mono 4.x has some issues on DragonFly. Some minor testing has been done, but if you are already using it, please contribute.

2016/07/102016/07/09

Lazy Reading for 2016/07/10

Assembled hastily on Saturday, which is later than I’ve been in a long time.

Don’t tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to.
“Beautiful artwork plays the UNIX timestamp on cymbals“. A 32-bit art installation, judging from the year 2038 time limit.
Every parallel ATA connection ever in one device, or close to it.
The Forgotten Early History of Fanfiction. (via)
The Secret Nuclear History of Cat Videos. Where diffserv levels came from, in a very thorough explanation. (also via)
DevOps vs. SRE. (via)
“NetBox is an IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.” I really could have used this about 8 years ago. (also via)
Mathematical term or Hollywood movie?
Xerox Alto Restoration Part 3: drive ok and First boot attempt. (via)
Sil, a roguelike that is as Tolkienish as possible. (via)
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful. (via)
What to Consider When the Platforms Show Up with Money. This is why I still run the Digest as my own site, rather than through Facebook/Twitter/Medium/whatever. (via)

Unrelated link of the week: Heavy metal riff generator. (via) Related to unrelated: Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – Part 1. (via)

2016/07/092016/07/08

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/09

I was on the road all this week, so this doesn’t range as far as usual. I’ll be charging through my RSS feed backlog over the next few days.

garbage[33]: Z-Wave of ze future. Missed linking to it on Friday because of driving. Lots of Vim conversation!
The state of libreSSL in FreeBSD. (via)
New 2016Q3 branch. (of FreeBSD ports)
Core.9 is now in session.
Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS by Michael Dexter.
Looking for awesome BSD DTrace materials.
A request for BSD variants information.
BSD podcast?
The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (second edition). (via)
Lumina 1.0.0 sources frozen.
OPNsense 16.7RC1 available.
TrueNAS 9.10 out.
BSD Graphics Stack for AMD.

2016/07/06

DragonFly PIE

Place Independent Executables are now supported on DragonFly, thanks to sumbitter ‘shamaz’.