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2015/09/202015/10/13

Lazy Reading for 2015/09/20

It’s a in-depth reading week, so make time!

Restoration of First Edition Unix Kernel Sources. I linked to a Google Code version of this before, but Google Code is shutting down. (via)
Dark corners of Unicode. In-depth and also might make you despair a little. (via)
In Search of SYNful Routers. (via NANOG)
ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES COULD STILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD (AND YOUR LIFE).
Joint Statement of Internet Engineers and Pioneers. Amicus brief for the FCC’s Open Internet Order, but also a good explanation/history in itself. (via)
XPRIZE’s Jono Bacon on the next great challenge. “…the thing that is beautiful about open source is that anybody can play a role in a bigger picture.” (via)
Inside the Computer (EDSAC). Video. (via)
5 MB harddrive being shipped by IBM – 1956. (via)
“Whens the last time you saw a snow crash?“
More New, Original Web Dev Jokes.
Designing for accountability, designing for broken-ness. The three failure modes listed at the end are interesting.

Your unrelated link of the week: Announcing the 2016 APPLE CABIN CALENDAR! “Turts”. For real purchase, though this might only be funny to someone who is familiar with the food and advertising it parodies.

2015/09/192015/09/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/19

Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits.

2015/09/18

Endless Sky on DragonFly

I mentioned Endless Sky in the last Lazy Reading post as a game that might run on DragonFly. ‘Romick’ took that as a challenge and got it working; he’s posted the steps he took so that anyone else can do so.

2015/09/17

Panel Self Refresh for i915 users

Noticed both in a commit message and in tonight’s BSDNow, Imre Vadasz has added Panel Self Refresh (power saving) capabilities, set with a sysctl.

2015/09/17

BSDNow 107: In Their Midst

BSDNow 107 has the usual roundup of news, including some things I appear to have completely missed, and an interview of Aaron Poffenberger, who apparently gets BSD material into Linux conventions.

2015/09/16

BSDTalk 256: Allan Jude

BSDTalk 256 (or as I like to think of it, BSDTalk 16^2) is out with 16 minutes of interview of Allan Jude at vBSDCon, about his work on the FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book.

2015/09/16

OPNsense: On the Shoulders of Giants, right now

“OPNsense: On the Shoulders of Giants” is happening right now in New York City, at Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St., with Issac ‘.ike’ Levy. .ike is the one who persuaded me to go to pfSense for my border devices at work, so it’s interesting to see what he has to say about OPNSense. Of course, it may be too late by the time you read this – sorry! I thought I had pre-scheduled this post but apparently I did not.

2015/09/142015/09/14

libc versioning added

John Marino’s committed libc versioning. He has a post describing it, along with a note that anyone DragonFly-current should do a full buildworld/kernel and also update all installed packages. (Update: those new packages are on the way.)

2015/09/132015/09/14

Lazy Reading for 2015/09/13

This week just sorta blew up with the links.

as2914.net, visualization of the Internet, seen “from the as_path of 2914”. (via)
The IPv4-pocolypse has started. (via)
Make things astronautty. (via)
Related: NASA Ames: This used to be the future. (via)
Slack, the Ultimate Workday Distractor. Repent! Oh, wait, this is a different Slack.
Endless Sky, a space exploration game similar to Escape Velocity. Cross-platform, so it miiiight work on BSD.
Naev, a similar concept.
“IT began with Ada – Women in Computer History 2 September 2015 – 10 July 2016“. You probably have to be in Europe (Paderborn) to catch this, but there’s lots of old computer hardware you can get close to. (via)
Speaking of old (and expensive)… (via)
Anderson.vim: Dark vim colorscheme based on colors from Wes Anderson films. That’s… specific. (via)
A hardware flaw in a new Cisco switch. See first comment on the source page.
When the Unix load average was added to Unix. (via)
The history of Clarus the Dogcow. (via) I have a “bootleg”? Clarus shirt I picked up at… Macworld years and years ago. I’m sorta hipster-proud of it.
Ted Unangst rants about compiler-inserted backdoors. Follow the links he helpfully supplied in an article update to show responses to his views. (Something more articles should have.)
One Weird Old Productivity Tip.
Cynical interpretations of various project milestones.
How do you get network connectivity from the worst PC in the world? Ugh. I used one of those, once.
Time Cube is gone, Thyme Cube is still alive. I’m… vaguely sad? that Time Cube doesn’t exist any longer. (verbatim via)
Computer Science Courses that Don’t Exist, But Should. Some of these ideas are actually pretty good, not just humor. (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Wonderella, a consistently funny superhero parody. As an added bonus, the author apparently can’t stop making (non-comic) one-liner jokes, so he stuffs them all in his Twitter feed instead of the usual case of Twitter as promotional tool.

2015/09/122015/09/11

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/12

This was a quieter-than-normal week, probably because of the North American holiday at the start of it, but I found enough articles by the end.

Andrew Tanenbaum (creator of Minix) encourages you to go to BSDCon Brasil 2015. (though it has already happened by the time I saw this.)
ctwm, an extension to twm in NetBSD.
Lumina, and by extension at least PC-BSD, gains a Start menu.
gpart can’t yet replace fdisk in FreeBSD.
The rge(4) driver is removed in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has gained the sesutil(8) utility, for managing SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) devices. It turns the light on and off!
A history of modern init systems.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/07.
Clarifying NextBSD’s Near Term Expectations.
(OPNSense) System Health – whats next?!
FreeNAS News, issue 23.
Defeating Cryptolocker attacks with ZFS.

2015/09/10

BSDNow 106: Multipath TCP

BSDNow 106 is up. The interview is with Nigel Williams about, you guessed it, multipath TCP. There’s the normal roundup and not a pun to be seen anywhere. I feel so confused!

2015/09/09

CDBUG DNSSEC slides

If you missed last night’s DNSSEC presentation at CDBUG, here’s the slides.

2015/09/08

libc no longer in executable memory

John Marino is working on versioning libc, and as part of that process, libc is no longer loaded into executable memory. Here is I think an explanation of lib versioning that may apply, and of course moving things that aren’t supposed to execute, out of executable memory areas, is good for security. There’s more on that topic, too – W^X may be a similar example.

This is a complicated topic that I’m not part of, so suggest better descriptions in the comments, please.

2015/09/062015/09/08

Lazy Reading for 2015/09/06

Somehow I managed to find mostly articles with long headlines this week.

Getting work done while you’re fishing – with expect.
Linux workstation security checklist. Most of this would apply to a BSD system too. (via)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Fsync(). From the POSIX point of view.(via)
There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: (via I lost the source, sorry!)
The somewhat surprising history of chroot(). (via multiple)
Modern *BSDs have a much better init system than I was expecting.
The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community. (via)
The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies. I found this out the hard way over last winter. (also via)
The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy. Can’t top this. (via)
Unix Administration Horror Stories. (via)
Roguelike Tutorial in Rust. (via)

2015/09/052015/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/05

Will I need to add a NextBSD tag? Time will tell.

Clarifying NextBSD’s Near Term Expectations.
Deleting files from /usr/, breaking your system, then recovering.
BSDOwl, “A highly portable build system targeting modern UNIX systems.” (via)
Virtualization support in OpenBSD. (via multiple)
Berkeley DB: Architecture. Remember, the B in BSD is also Berkeley. (via)
the peculiar libretunnel situation
The v0.5 release of MPTCP for FreeBSD. (via)
OpenBSD 5.8’s third song announced.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/08/31.
Native EFI Bootloader Support for OpenBSD.
LiteBSD for PIC32-HMZ144 released. (via)
New Release Schedule for PC-BSD.
Get your pkgsrc fixes in now, before the freeze.
If you have anything in pkgsrc-wip, please help clarify copyright as it moves to new hosting and also git.
“A bibliography of FreeBSD and BSD related papers and books.” You’ll have to dig through the .bib format, but there’s some good titles to track down in there.

2015/09/042015/09/03

CDBUG: Patrick Muldoon on DNS, 2015/09/08

CDBUG is having a presentation on DNS, given by Patrick Muldoon, on Sept. 8th. That’s next Tuesday. If you are anywhere near Albany, go visit.

2015/09/03

BSDNow 105: Virginia BSD Assembly

BSDNow 105 is up, and has all the recent news, plus an interview with Scott Courtney about the in-about-a-month vBSDCon 2015.

2015/09/012015/08/31

BSDTalk 255: a quick note

BSDTalk 255 is out, and it’s a brief episode – 6 minutes. No interview, but talk about recent events.

2015/08/312015/08/31

HAMMER2 root mounts and live dedup too

HAMMER2 recently gained the ability to be used as the root mount for your DragonFly system. Live deduplication of data is also now possible, which means fast copy operations, less space used, and no need to wait for an overnight batch process to do it. If you want to try it, you need a bleeding edge DragonFly system and the WANT_HAMMER2 option. It’s still not ready for production use, so don’t try it with any data you want to keep.

2015/08/302015/08/28

Lazy Reading for 2015/08/30

Historical platforms week, quite by accident.

NADCOG, North American Data Center Operators Group. A new list similar to NANOG but for those who have to manage multiple servers.
MIT has a Platform Studies series of books on systems like the Amiga, Atari, and so on. The latest is on the Nintendo Entertainment System, titled “I Am Error“. (via)
The Lives of Bots. We don’t have AI, but we do have non-human actors on the internet. (via)
Unix and Windows Hell. The I HATE EVERYTHING response. (via)
Do math with awk.
A Salute to Solo Programmers. Follow the links for some interesting historical stories.
The Ship Date Predictor. For Windows 95.
Wired Style: A Linguist Explains Vintage Internet Slang. I still have HotWired Style on my shelf, which I guess would be a companion book. (via)
Fred Brooks: “A Personal History of Computers”. (via)
The MUD Connector. (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Jack Kirby would have been 98 today.