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2016/01/172016/01/16

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/17

I’m taking an online course and don’t have as much clicking-about time, unfortunately.

Vimer – Convenience wrapper for gvim/mvim –remote(-tab)-silent. (via)
Compilation-bookmarks for emacs. In the interest of equal time. (via)
Vim Galore. Unequal again. (via)
Freeciv-Earth play anywhere on earth. (via)
My payphone runs Linux now. More a hardware hacking story.
Electronics That Last: How I Built an Heirloom Laptop. More hardware. (via)
NANOG 66, February 7-10, San Diego, CA.
FOSSAsia 2016, March 18-20, Singapore.
The Axe Attack on the Early GPS Navigation System. (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Golem Arcana. For the miniatures gamer with a handheld.

2016/01/162016/01/15

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/16

There’s a lot of convention links this week, which is mostly an accident. If any of them are near you, go! BSD conventions are always fun, in my experience.

FreeBSD on EdgeRouter Lite – no serial port required.
Nearly 19 years of FreeBSD 2.2.1. (via)
CharmBUG, a BSD user group in Baltimore, Maryland, has a new mailing list. See also the Meetup page. (via)
AsiaBSDCon 2016 is coming up in Tokyo, March 11-13. (also via)
You have only a few days left to meet the BSDCan Call for Papers deadline. (also via)
The HOPE convention is July 22-24. (also plundered via)
And if you haven’t clicked on it yet, here’s NYCBUG’s upcoming schedule.
outrageous roaming fees, about the recent CVE-2016-777|8.
OpenBSD laptops.
Xen Support Enabled in [openbsd]-current.
The Penguicon Lucas Tech Track.
OPNSense 15.7.24 Released.
BSD Is Ready for SCALE 14X.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/01/11. (says 2015 but it’s a typo.)
Best of 2015 in BSD Magazine.

2016/01/15

BSDNow 124: Get your engine(x) started!

I almost missed it again! BSDNow 124 is up, with an interview of Igor Sysoev about nginx, plus the normal roundup.

2016/01/152016/01/14

em/emx(4) users, please test

Sepherosa Ziehau has an update to the em/emx(4) (or other Intel NICs) driver, for testing. Hey, remember what I said the other day about Skylake support?

2016/01/142016/01/14

CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778 in DragonFly

There’s two important security updates for SSH. DragonFly release and development have been updated for it, and you can correct for it on your running system using the one-liner at Undeadly.

Note: keep in mind this is a client bug – it’s an information leak when you as a client connect out to somewhere else. A server, as an endpoint, is not affected.

2016/01/132016/01/12

Skylake processors next

New CPU support in DragonFly is continuing, and Matthew Dillon will be testing one of the newer Intel ‘Skylake‘ processors soon. That may mean even more accelerated graphics support at some point, too.

2016/01/12

McCabe complexity and DragonFly

I’ve never heard of ‘McCabe Complexity‘ before now. It’s a description of how complicated software can be, measured by the number of possible paths through it. Pierre Abbat used that measure on Hammer code and not surprisingly, got a high number.

2016/01/102016/01/11

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/10

I am prewriting most of this post because I have a significant hardware changeout happening this weekend at work; let’s hope for quiet.

The Website Obesity Crisis. The Digest is <300K, which isn’t too bad. (via)
2015 CCC Videos. (via)
Bourne Basic – a BASIC interpreter implemented in pure Bourne shell. From 1987, originally in comp.sources.misc. (via)
The NLNOG Ring – join if you qualify.
The Apple ][ Library: The 4 AM Collection. Indirectly linked to before, but worth it again. (via)
From the same location, the BurgerTime crack. (via)
2015 Year In Review. The “The Coffee” section is important.
Linux and Unix SysAdmins New Year’s Resolutions. (via)
The Long Death of CGI.pm. (via)
Synchronise remote SSH authorised_keys. (via)
How to C in 2016. (via)
The story behind casual contributors. Relevant to open source.
D&D Meets the Electronic Age. (via)
All of UNIX. (via)
Piet. (via)

Your unrelated food link of the week: The teas to make you forget all about coffee. Not as smug as the usual tea article, thank goodness.

2016/01/092016/01/09

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/09

I had so many tabs open of things to post that I lost some until the last minute.

The FreeBSD Foundation is going to external sources to resolve community issues, as followup on recent conflict. (I agree with this plan)
Upcoming meetings for NYCBUG (and other convention dates). Feb. 3rd is the next.
NixOS on FreeBSD. (via)
The TorBSD project has a long list of potential BSD porting projects. (thanks, George!)
AWS tools on OpenBSD.
~~OpenBSD has imported click.~~ I misread.
2016 Resolution – DiscoverBSD Talks. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/01/05.
New review on “Tarsnap Mastery”
Who wants to sponsor some BSD books?
“FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” disclaimer
FreeBSD Jails the hard way. (via)
New NVIDIA drivers for FreeBSD.
I Moved to Linux and It’s Even Better Than I Expected. Late 90s flashback! Mostly applies to a BSD desktop too. (via)
The ‘hidden’ cost of using ZFS for your home NAS. (via)
FreeBSD on the raspberry pi. (via)
Netflix’s async sendfile now in FreeBSD-current. (via)

2016/01/08

New ports utility: Synth

John Marino has opened up his new utility for testing: Synth. It’s made for building custom package repositories, similar to poudriere, but much less setup work. If you’ve ever said “I like binary installs, but I want my own build options”, this is for you. The README includes screenshots to show all the things it can do.

2016/01/07

BSDNow 123: ZFS in the trenches

This week’s BSDNow episode has an interview with Josh Paetzel about ZFS, and lots of end-of-year/start-of-new-year prognostication.

2016/01/07

Blinky blinky for iwm(4) users

This is a little thing, but so useful: the Wi-Fi indicator light on your iwm(4)-using device will now show its status under DragonFly.

2016/01/062016/01/05

New committer: Rimvydas Jasinskas

Please welcome DragonFly’s newest committer: Rimvydas Jasinskas. He’s already done some adding and removing, and he’s been making a ton of dports changes for some time.

2016/01/052016/01/01

NYCBUG: installfest on January 6th

A reminder: NYCBUG is having an installfest tomorrow night, at 6:45 PM, at Stone Creek. Even if you’ve already installed a BSD on every bit of hardware you have, it’s still a good time.

2016/01/032016/01/01

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/03

The first link will bring you a lot more reading.

How Mobile Carriers Skirt Net-Neutrality Rules. From a collection of interesting writing by Ingrid Burrington. (via)
ASCII table – Pronunciation Guide. (via)
UNIX manual, edition 0. (via)
Vim Regex. (via)
weather.agi. (I had a coworker who did TV weather reports in southern California for years; said it was a very boring job.)
Structured Logging, a concept I can’t disagree with. (via)
Where Have All the Gophers Gone? Why the Web Beat Gopher for Mindshare. (via)
46 years of Facebook friendship: the UNIX epoch strikes again. (via)
A survival guide for Unix beginners. Yeah, Linux, but whatever. (via)
Settling into Unix. Same author as previous. (via)

Your off-topic link of the week: The food timeline. This is one of those old-school sites without fancy formatting, created mostly though one person’s focus on a topic, and astonishingly in-depth. This sort of thing makes me so happy to see.

2016/01/022016/01/02

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/02

That first link is important. DragonFly, as a project, hasn’t had issues like that yet, but that’s more a side effect of it being a smaller project rather than anything else.

The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl. (via)
- updated: An initial followup from freebsd-core.
Plotting Out the BSD Year. (via or via)
BSD: A Brief Look Back at 2015.
OpenBSD Jumpstart. (via)
Can it run BSD? The story of a MIPS-based PIC32 microcontroller. (via)
Want to build a local router on my raspberry pi – considering BSD.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/12/28.
Ubuntu vs FreeBSD Hosting: Is There A Difference? (via)
“So errors of a measly 292g years go unreported.“
pkgsrc-2015Q3 Branch Statistics.
pkgsrc-2015Q4 released.
ZFS boot environments are now available in the FreeBSD boot loader.
plasma_saver for FreeBSD. (this should be portable, hint hint)
Installfest on January 6th for NYCBUG.

2016/01/01

BSDNow 122: The BSD Black Box

I missed posting this before: A new episode of BSDNow, with new items plus an interview with Alex Rosenberg, “Former Manager of Platform Architecture at Sony”. I assume that means Sony has or had a significant BSD installation, which I totally did not know about.

2015/12/31

End of year donations

Even though DragonFly is not incorporated as a non-profit, there’s been a rash of unsolicited donations in the last few weeks, all of which are appreciated. For end-of-year – or start-of-new-year donations – there’s also the 501(c)3 organizations behind FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, too.

2015/12/282015/12/27

Linux 4.0 video matching

Francois Tigeot has updated DragonFly to match the video support found in the Linux 4.0 kernel. This will benefit you most if you are running Skylake, Cherryview, or Valleyview chipsets. Don’t ask me how to tell; the improvement has been so rapid I’ve lost track of which model codename is which.

2015/12/282015/12/27

32c3 streaming now

The 32nd Chaos Communication Congress is running now, and is being streamed if you want to watch the talks as they happen. There’s a posted schedule.