If you’re using qemu and DragonFly, the latest update of ACPICA to version 20160422 may fix some issues introduced in a previous update. (I don’t have a specific bug report to point you at; sorry!)
This week filled up fast, despite me having an exam to take in the middle of it.
- Site Reliability Engineering, the book and the notes on the book. (via)
- Related: O’Reilly has a significant discount right now on the ebook version.
- How to recover lost files added to Git but not committed.
- How to make a minimalist stereo with an old phone and a $20 amp. This works with an old BSD machine too.
- Fun, distracting websites for down-time.
- THE 64 – Computer and Handheld Console. In a keyboard, and in a handheld.
- Classic Programmer Paintings. (via)
- What Dwarf Fortress Taught Me About Startups. (via)
- A Crypt-Crawling Tactical Roguelike: Ananias. Plays in browser.
- There is no cloud. I need one of those. (via)
- A Notable Omission. Related to the previous link. Also, there’s going to be some panicked selling over the next few weeks, I bet. (via)
- Curing Our Slack Addiction. An old business rule: Increase communication, people ask questions instead of making decisions. Increase available data, people make decisions instead of asking questions. (via)
- TEXT-MODE, ASCII/ANSI images. (via)
- Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”?
- The story behind NetHack’s first update since 2003. (via)
- ZALGO RLY.
- Next generation UNIX shell. Never improve, just reinvent! See also: CADT.(via)
- Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month, free to read. One of the better books ever written about software development or even just knowledge projects. (via)
Your unrelated link of the week: HOW TO OPERATE YOUR FROG. (via)
I apologize for ending with a question.
- Why Linux can’t be distributed with ZFS included. “Because it’s not BSD” is the facile answer. (via)
- pkgsrcCon2016 call for presentations. (via)
- HardenedBSD delivers security PIE. (via)
- NetBSD machines at AsiaBSDCon 2016. (via)
- OPNsense 1.16.11 released.
- Build a FreeBSD 10.3-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit. (via)
- libressl – more vague promises.
- The BSD family of operating systems.
- Does BSD distributions contain any GNU software?
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/18.
- Question about NetBSD — How to update Compiled Binaries
- BSD at LinuxFest Northwest
- Year of the OpenBSD desktop
- Installing ElectroBSD by exploiting “HardenedBSD”. (via)
- FreeBSD and NetBSD Google Summer of Code projects. (via multiple places)
- This may be a facetious question, but: are the new hyperconverged servers just… servers for people that don’t know what their operating system can do?
Garbage 23 is up cause it’s Friday and the content is initially summarized like this: “Brandon tries not to use Google for a week”. It’s apparently not that bad?
BSDNow 138, “Rushing into BSD”, has an interview with Benedict Reuschling, about the FreeBSD Foundation and Europe. There’s the usual news roundup, plus some notes about upcoming conventions.
The DragonFly 4.4.3 point release is out. There’s a commit page listing the changes between 4.4.2 and 4.4.3. Nobody will be surprised that there’s an OpenSSL update in there.
If you want a complete image, it’s available for download at your nearest mirror. If you want to upgrade an existing install:
cd /usr; make src-update
(or src-create-shallow if you don't already have source)
make buildworld && make buildkernel
make installkernel && make installworld
make upgrade
reboot
I’d save this for an In Other BSDs note, but that’s a whole week away: FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS is published, available in electronic and printed editions. I suspect this would be interesting to non-BSD users, too.
I’m studying for a test next week, so the amount of random clicking-around that I’ve been able to do has been limited.
- Write Opinionated Workarounds.
- Devs Answer: What are the best comments left in your code? (via)
- restart the void: bot-generated apocalyptic error messages. (via, via)
- Brian Kernighan on the Typesetting of “The Go Programming Language” Book. (via)
- Vim 8.0 is coming. (via)
- The Internet of things you inherit or leave behind. (via)
- Parametric, Open source, 3D modelling – in your browser. (via)
- not smart is not stupid. “As the old adage goes, if there’s a feature, it’s going to break.”
- Here’s What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe. (via)
- Some phone history via NANOG.
- The Vintage Computer Festival East XI is finishing up right now. (via)
- The story of the “battleshort“. (via)
Your off-topic pen link of the week: Remember I asked once about decent fountain pens that were not expensive? I found one, and it’s great.
This is one of those weeks where a bunch of release all tumble together by chance.
- UbuntuBSD Is Looking To Become An Official Ubuntu Flavor. (still confusing)
- PC-BSD 10.3 out; PC-BSD 11 out next. 10.3 was out last week; I missed this link before.
- pfSense 2.3-RELEASE Now Available! (also seen here and here)
- PostgreSQL – Add BSD authentication method. (via)
- BSD and Toshiba Chromebook 2.
- FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS. As Colin Percival points out, the last half-dozen releases have been on AWS too.
- Undeadly and HTTPS. (via)
- Penguicon 2016 Lucas Track Schedule. For being called “Penguicon”, there’s a lot of BSD events there.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/11.
- OPNsense 16.1.9 released.
- OPNsense 16.1.10 released.
- Unix’s file durability problem, which leads in comment to disks from the perspective of a file system (McKusick), which I thought I had linked before but maybe not. (via)
- FreeNAS, TrueNAS, and BadLock.
- UbuntuBSD Should Heed Kubuntu’s Cautionary Tale.
Garbage number 22 is out, and talks about a number of things, including NVMe support in OpenBSD, programming in Go, and ‘reader-submitted issues’.
No interview this week on BSDNow because of travel, but there’s still an episode, complete with news and an unboxing video of a new BSD product. I’m linking to a slightly different location because it’s not up on the normal site as of this writing.
Tomohiro Kusumi would like to port Hammer (1) to FreeBSD, as noted in this bug discussion. It’s not even begun to happen, but if you can contribute, please do.
I’ve finally used up my Lazy Reading links backlog!
- Hand-crafted containers. A good explanation of how containers are set up, and a certain sense of deja vu for anyone familiar with BSD jails. (via)
- Punctuation in Novels. I like seeing the conversion of data from text to image. (also via)
- Overclocking an old IBM 701. The butterfly keyboard model. (via)
- Accurate CRT Simulation. (via)
- RS-232 for Commodore PET and Dialing a BBS Over WiFi. (via)
- tmux2html: “Render full tmux windows or individual panes as HTML.” (via)
- MobaXterm – all-in-one SSH/X client. Anyone use this vs. PuTTY?
- Documentation is for the weak.
- A Brief History of ClarisWorks. Back when office packages were actually light. (via)
- Dwarf Fortress’ creator on how he’s 42% towards simulating existence. (via)
- What Infrastructure Should Learn from NPM JavaScript Debacle. “Don’t execute programs directly from the Internet” should not be a hard lesson to learn. (via)
- Debian ships very outdated packages. It frustrates upstream creators. The response from most people misses the point, but the maintainer at least has a sane response. (via and via)
- Ubuntu on Windows. I think it’s less “Let’s use Linux” and more “Apple’s UNIX tools get everyone to buy Macbooks, let’s try that.” It unfortunately does not do anything (yet?) with process control or user authorization or other things you would actually need. Related: GNU/kWindows. (via).
Your sort-of off-topic link of the week: Michael W. Lucas’s fiction is, for a short time, part of a larger book bundle which is available for less than the price of buying it all individually. Buy now if you want a deal/lots of fiction to read.
Back to the normal rotation; not done early, not done late.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/04.
- FreeNAS Mini XL Now Available.
- How to use OpenBSD with Libreboot: detailed instructions. (via)
- Linux Developers vs BSD Developers. (via)
- OpenBSD – recommended way to do WebDAV, CardDAV, CalDAV. (via)
- A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part I.
- Disk IO limiting is coming to FreeBSD. (via)
- The drunken bishop: An analysis of the OpenSSH fingerprint visualization. (via)
- Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages. (via)
- FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE Now Available.
- Call For Papers for EuroBSDCon 2016 in Belgrade, Serbia is out!
This week’s garbage podcast is out, with some OpenBSD topics and also some interesting direct experience of licensing violations.
The GNN in the title is George Neville-Neil, interviewed on BSDNow 136 about the TeachBSD project, plus the usual collection of recent BSD news. The show title comes from this station advert.
Posting now so people have warning: NYCBUG’s monthly meeting is tomorrow, April 6th, and has John Wolfe presenting “Debugging with LLVM”. Note that the meeting announcement I just linked has the NYCBUG schedule and speakers for the rest of the calendar year. Surely you can make one of them?
Tomohiro Kusumi has been creating a near-constant stream of bugfixes and cleanups to Hammer for quite some time. I don’t often link to it, because they are incremental improvements and hard to linkblog, so to speak. In an effort to make up for this deficit, I do want to draw attention to his two recent commits: “Make hammer commands print root volume path“, and “Print volume list after volume-add|del“. Small changes, but this is what makes complex systems usable.
If you remember this Baytrail problem, Daniel Bilik has gone and found a fix, as this appears to be a cross-platform bug, and he has patches for DragonFly. If it’s affecting you, you don’t have to wait for the patches to be added in; he’s made them available directly.
Update: it’s committed to DragonFly now.
This I all built up over the past two weeks, so plenty to read here.
- How To Write Unmaintainable Code. (via)
- An implementation of Sublime’s PlainTasks plugin for Vim.
- Dotfile Management and Documentation with Org-Mode. Equal time provision. (via)
- @Play 85: A Talk with Digital Eel, Makers of the Infinite Space Games.
- Digital Nature, a summary of world-building software starting with Bryce.
- How to Write a Roguelike in 15 Steps. Not linkbait – a real, in-depth procedure. (via)
- Generating and Populating Caves. I like the map images. (via)
- The Imitation Game, about Alan Turing (sample). Here’s historical audio to go with it.
- Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust. UNIX gets reinvented on a regular basis. Also related. (via)
- Maintain Separate GitHub accounts. I’ve seen people bit by this just with email. (via)
- Technical jargon failure modes.
- Did you ever play Myst?
- Instagram hates the Internet. Noted in article: people leaving Twitter for Instagram. I see that trend.