NYCBUG is having “true(1) and false(1), The Classical Code Reading Group of Stockholm, NYC*BUG Mix Tape Edition” happen this Wednesday the 7th. You may remember a similar event at the end of August. This will be led by George Brocklehurst from the original event, with NYCBUG members present. If you missed the previous one, try this out – by all accounts, these code readings are inordinately fun.
Completely unrelated: I rebuilt a baking (Hoosier) cabinet over the past few months, and I’m quite happy with how it turned out.
- The $9 computer is shipping today. Well, some days ago by when you read this. (via)
- What Happens Next Will Amaze You. Maciej Ceglowski’s talks are always excellent. (via)
- Vim Creep. (via)
- Hacking Graphing Calculators. “As powerful as Game Boys, and mostly used for the same reason”.
- ASCII to My Heart. (via)
- Awesome Open Source Documents. (via)
- Roundup: Retro computers in your browser. (via)
- Breakouts, 36 Breakout variants. This will keep you busy for a while. See previous Breakout links here. (via)
- The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world. (via)
- The History of the Design of Unix’s Find Command. The comments at the source of the link are interesting.
- A vim Tutorial and Primer. Again, the comments at the source of the link are possibly a better read.
- 18 cardinal rules of systems administration.
- 30 years a sysadmin. Same author as previous article.
- Brian Kernighan interview. Steve Jobs is getting treated like a saint; BWK is barely known. They both helped the same number of people, but Steve Jobs made more money. (via)
- Content Addressable Memory intro. Why routers are both underpowered and faster than general hardware at some tasks. (via)
- Your phone’s homescreen is dead. The gradual removal of user-initiated actions in computing. (via)
- Why have digital books stopped evolving? Lack of competition, I’d say. (via)
- aRrgh: a newcomer’s (angry) guide to R. (via)
- Predicting and controlling NetHack’s randomness. (via)
There’s lots to read through this week – just for BSD! I’ll have even more tomorrow.
- FreeBSD cloud use cases?
- Nvidia and X.
- The September issue of BSD Magazine is out.
- Reporting bugs and the BSD community.
- (Net)BSD newbie, some questions
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/28.
- Faces of FreeBSD: Allan Jude. You may have already seen that face on BSDNow.
- OPNsense 15.7.15 Released.
- FreeNAS: A Worst Practices Guide.
- A status report on Michael W. Lucas’s two upcoming FreeBSD Mastery books, plus his other work.
- tame testing.
- More l2k15 Hackathon reports.
- NASA’s Pleiades Supercomputer and pkgsrc. They even document it.
- Rebase when pushing to pkgsrc-wip’s new Git home.
- pkgsrc-2015Q3 is released.
- DTrace in NetBSD, though only simple scripts work right now.
- NetBSD gains PCI Extended Configuration Space support.
- Home server advice often boils down to “how are your backups?“
- OpenBSD parts in Toyota Highlander.
- Teaching to contribute to BSD. (from a just-run class)
The package x11-themes/dragonfly-wallpapers exists, thanks to John Marino, and gives you DragonFly-themed backgrounds in KDE. Or probably any other window manager, if you install it and point your wm at the directory.
Update: John Marino helpfully posted a link to the images. It’s not yet built as a binary, but it’s not exactly time-consuming to build from source.
BSDNow 109 is up at the Jupiter Broadcasting site, though not yet at the bsdnow.tv domain. This week’s interview is with Warner Losh, which is where the ‘imp’ reference comes from.
MIDI support has been (re) added in DragonFly, if I read this recent commit correctly. You may have supported hardware and not even realize it.
BSDTalk 257 is 15 minutes of conversation with Christos Zoulas, available now.
For some reason, I had this complete days ago, and I’ve already started on next week’s links.
- The Apple II by Stephen Wozniak, a PDF. The initial color range makes me nostalgic. (via)
- Why Commodore disk drives were so slow. (via previous link)
- Know where you stand: the `pwd` program. A code reading, September 28th, in New York City. (via)
- In the same vein as Endless Sky from a few weeks ago, here’s mention of Dune Legacy, a remake of Dune II, the earliest RTS – or at least the base model. Following links there brought me to Dune Dynasty, Dune 2: The Golden Path, and OpenRA, all of which are cross platform and also may run on a BSD – F/DF ports exist for OpenRA and F/DF/O for Legacy. (You understand my shorthand there, don’t you?)
- The sad state of web app deployment. (via)
- Facebook has decided it is time I had a baby. Have you ever avoided a search term because you knew that the advertising you’d see for the next few days/weeks would echo it back to you? (also via)
- DigiPal, which sounds like a strangely named PDA, is a digital palaeography site focusing on medieval handwriting in England just before the Norman invasion. I find this interesting because I’ve been listening to this History of England podcast. (via)
- The US Long-haul Fiber Map. Also seen as “How many people can go offline at once, because of a misdirected backhoe?” (via)
- Similar: Undersea cable maps, or “How many people can go offline at once, because of a dragged anchor?” (via)
- Software Defined Networks – Four Years Later. YouTube recording, from RIPE 70. (via)
- Just some quick points about DHCP.
- New Forum – Version 7 UNIX. (via)
- Hacker News and Subreddit simulators. Startlingly accurate for being fancy Markov generators… which says something about the real content. (via)
- rough idling.
- pigshell.
Your unrelated video link of the week: The Wizard of Speed and Time – Mike Jittlov (1988).
This took some catching up.
- MidnightBSD 0.7 is out. (via)
- OPNsense 15.7.14 Released.
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/21.
- New email gateway release 3.4 “rocky”, based on FreeBSD 10.2. (via)
- FreeBSD on recent Lenovo Thinkpad W541. (via)
- *BSD and thinkpads. (via)
- Broadwell support in OpenBSD.
- LibreSSL 2.3.0 Released.
- Two OpenBSD hackathon summaries.
- “sid is a Static Intrusion Detection and integrity checking system” for NetBSD.
- sesutil additions on FreeBSD.
- rmt over ssh on OpenBSD.
- BSD 2.11, I assume emulated?
- Network drivers are a cross-pollination success story for BSD.
- New source/port change summaries for OpenBSD, on GMane.
- “Cheap hardware for router, perhaps fileserver?“
There’s been a lot of improvements to DragonFly and graphics support recently, and Francois Tigeot gave a talk at the 2015 X.Org Developer’s Conference outlining just how much has changed. He’s posted the slides.
BSDNow 108 is up at the Jupiter Broadcasting site, though not listed ont he episodes page. It has an interview with Andrew Pantyukhin, and I haven’t watched it yet to find out what else.
It has finally happened: There’s no more IPv4 addresses left to allocate, at least for ARIN – and that’s going to affect most people reading this. Ask your ISP for IPv6 access. The next step is being forced to implement either wonky 6to4 mappings, or just plain IPv6 networks.
If you happen to still be running DragonFly 4.0 – that’s two releases ago and not supported – you may be noticing less ports are building. There’s been enough significant changes in DragonFly since that release that it’s reducing the number of buildable ports.
DragonFly 4.0 to 4.2 is not a difficult jump, so jump when you can. The converse of this, of course, is that there’s even more building on 4.2 and DragonFly-current.
Matthew Dillon brought over the FreeBSD iwm(4) driver to DragonFly, with some changes. This is useful to anyone with Intel “Dual Band Wireless AC” 3160, 7260, or 7265 units.
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.
Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits.
- OpenBSD (U)EFI bootloader howto. (via)
- System XVI: A replacement for systemd. (via)
- Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery – Storage Essentials. (via)
- The FreeBSD Journal Reaches New Milestone.
- BSDCam 2015 Trip Report: Mariusz Zaborski.
OPNsense 15.7.12 Released. OPNsense 15.7.13 Released.-
OpenBSD GPT support enabled.
- Moving to FreeBSD. (via)
- FreshBSD v4: beta version of the commit log search engine. (via)
- Looking for a laptop with a good CPU and solid out of the box OpenBSD experience.
- The pkgsrc-2015Q3 freeze has started,
- BSD News for 2015/09/14.
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.
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.
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.