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2016/05/082016/05/05

Lazy Reading for 2016/05/08

Network tools and analysis is the accidental topic this week.

More open-source network management tools.
How do ISPs and modems actually obtain the right signal off of a phone/cable/optical fiber/whatever line? A layer-1 overview. (via)
A damp discussion of network queuing. (via)
How To Make Fossils Productive Again. (via)
Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence.
SSH for fun and profit. (via)
CV of Failures. I like the last one. (via)
Go best practices, six years in. (via)
PocketCHIP, hardware for PICO-8. (via)
Typewriter.
Circuit Classics — Sneak Peek!
An update on SSH protocol 1. Dead in a year, that’s the update. (via)
How difficult is the GVG-AI competition?
Deflecting it old school. From here.

Your unrelated tea link of the week: British tea consumption has been going down. (via) I like the additional charts about biscuits and cake, complementary to tea. Which reminds me: Welsh cakes are so good that the first time I made them, I was angry that I hadn’t tried them years ago.

2016/05/07

A late Garbage[25]

Episode 25 of Garbage went up yesterday and I forgot to check for it, so I’m linking to it now. Among other things, they mention Garbage merchandise. I’d pay for a shirt that pointed out most technology is garbage, to take it from the page.

2016/05/072016/05/05

In Other BSDs for 2016/05/07

Another trifecta week.

GNOME 3.20.1 on OpenBSD, the usual screencast; not too bad for a server OS. (via)
A comprehensive guide for OpenBSD desktop?
Tredly – Containers for Unix. Powered by FreeBSD. (via)
Bootstrap pkgsrc under ‘bash on Windows’. This should be on pkgsrc.org.
OpenHUB’s NetBSD Project Statistics.
Dru Lavigne Will be Speaking @ KnoxBUG.
New Release Schedule and Lumina Desktop 0.9.0 Released. (via)
OpenBSD Foundation Announces Gold Sponsor.
libcrypto errata – May 2016. Related: regarding embargoes.
.NET framework ported to NetBSD. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/02.
GhostBSD 10.3 Alpha release! (via)
FreeBSD Quarterly Status report for 2016Q1.
p2k16 OpenBSD hackathon:

2016/05/06

autofs for DragonFly, a preview

Tomohiro Kusumi has been working on a port of autofs to DragonFly. If you aren’t familiar with it, autofs is an automatic file system mounter, so when you access a network file system at its local mount point, autofs kicks in and makes sure the remote file system is automatically mounted. He has an initial report on his progress, and expects it to be in DragonFly master in the next month.

2016/05/05

BSDNow 140: Tracing it back to BSD

This week’s BSDNow is the normal news roundup, plus an interview of Samy Al Bahra, about ‘backtrace‘.

I’m talking multiple times a week about BSD-themed podcasts/video/whatever these days. This is great! 5-6 years ago I was probably the only BSD source posting more than weekly.

2016/05/04

Interleaved swap for the curious

If you’ve ever wondered how having multiple swap devices can work, here’s your DragonFly-specific answer.

2016/05/042016/05/03

NYCBUG tonight: Urchin

NYCBUG is meeting tonight, and Thomas Levine will be there to talk about Urchin, a shell-based test framework. The announcement also has future meeting/speaker dates noted.

2016/05/032016/05/05

modules.local now possible

If you happen to be testing kernel modules, DragonFly can now load them from a modules.local directory. This keeps modules that aren’t part of the base system, separate. This is probably of most use to developers. It’s controlled by local_modules being set in /boot/loader.conf, and defaults to on.

(Updated for correct file location – thanks, swildner)

2016/05/03

bsdtalk264 – Down the Gopher Hole

BSDTalk 264 is out, and rather than an interview, it talks about a topic I’ve always enjoyed: Gopher, including ways to access Gopher resources even now.

2016/05/012016/04/29

Lazy Reading for 2016/05/01

Cinco De Mayo is coming up.

Why I run my business like an open source project. The contractors I use at work that take this approach are much easier to work with. (via)
Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side. Even more evidence of what a bad idea that strategy can be. (via)
Developer Certificate of Origin versus Contributor License Agreements. Boring, but I understand the reasoning. (also via)
Creating Magnetic Disk Storage at IBM. (via)
The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem. Displaced by Winbuntu. (via)
What happened to _why.
Email Isn’t The Thing You’re Bad At. I see so many people with this problem. (via)
Baby UNIX.
Dyson’s Maps & Cartography. Hand-drawn D&D maps. (via)
Related: The Dice You Never Knew You Needed. Buy here. (via)
5 Magical Beasts And How To Replace Them With A Shell Script.
GEOS, an operating system I never really knew about.
when i wore a younger fool’s cap. GitHub uber alles.
O Reader! My Reader. I’ve gotten used to tt-rss.

Your unrelated link of the week: What was the weirdest 911 call ever received? (via)

2016/04/302016/04/28

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/30

I think I manage to link at least one story for every BSD type this week, or close to it.

FreeBSD GPIO Benchmark. (via)
ASLR now on by default in amd64. (via)
anti-ROP mechanism in libc.
The p2k16 hackathon has begun.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/25.
Rethinking Unix: A New Apropos Implementation from NetBSD. (via)
BSD at LinuxFest Northwest 2016.
UPnP on Pfsense: security risks and alternatives. (via)
OpenSMTPD, spamd, SpamAssassin and Dovecot on OpenBSD – part 1 (via)
a prog by any other name. Some BSD history.
OPNsense 16.1.12 released

2016/04/29

garbage[24]: It’s all fun and games until someone’s domain gets hurt

The garbage podcast for this week is up, with discussion of OpenBSD and TRIM, and, well, a very wide range of topics, going by the summary.

2016/04/292016/04/28

NFS tuning tips

If you’re on DragonFly, or maybe even if you aren’t, and you are using NFS, here’s some tips on how to wring the best performance out of it.

2016/04/28

BSDNow 139: Cheri-picking BSD

This week’s BSDNow has some news catchup, since they’ve been on the road, and an interview with Brooks Davis of FreeBSD-on-Cheri. (CheriBSD?)

2016/04/27

Old DragonFly users, please test

Not older people that use DragonFly, but people of any age using an older release of DragonFly: Bezitopo is Pierre Abbat’s topographical program, and he needs testers on versions 4.4 of DragonFly or before. Please give his open-source program a run if you are on the appropriate versions. Trying other BSDs, even though not requested, can’t hurt.

2016/04/26

First KnoxBUG meeting tomorrow night

Posting it now, because it’ll be too late by this weekend’s In Other BSDs: The inaugural meeting of KnoxBUG is tomorrow night. That’s Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. The speaker is Kris Moore, of PC-BSD. The website has directions.

2016/04/25

ACPICA update for qemu users

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!)

2016/04/242016/04/22

Lazy Reading for 2016/04/24

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)

2016/04/232016/04/22

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/23

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?

2016/04/22

garbage[23]: High-availability real-time clustering dealy

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?