Do you have a Realtek 8101E card? Are you running bleeding edge DragonFly? If so, Sepherosa Ziehau would like you to test out his recent changes.
Edwin Groothuis pointed out in a blog post that FreeBSD’s ino_t type being 32 bit, not 64 bit, was a major obstacle to having Hammer on FreeBSD. He also noted that there’s some work that may change that.
Hasso Tepper has added (based on this FreeBSD work) the ability to “parse the utrace(2) entries generated by malloc(3) in a more human-readable format”.
The most recent branch of pkgsrc, 2008Q3, is available now.
The audio from NYCBSDCon presentations is available thanks to Nikolai Fetissov. Matthew Dillon’s Hammer presentation audio is available, along with others. I’ll link to the video/slides as soon as they are available. An idea of what Jason Dixon’s “BSD versus GPL” (,mp3) may be like as video can be gleaned from his previous work: BSD is Dying (Google Video, via).
Matthew Dillon also points out on his return from NYCBSDCon that some of the funding behind various BSD projects and developers comes from the financial institutions melting down recently; DragonFly is, luckily, unaffected.
(my IRA lost “only” 15% on Friday. Yeesh.)
Sascha Wildner is updating DragonFly to tzcode2008g, which will modernize our time system, along with making 64-bit time_t possible. It also apparently fixes a recently reported problem in Python. Sascha links to this time page in his message, with more time zone link information than ever I’ve seen.
Oh, and Sascha updated timezone data, too.
BSDTalk 161 has 25 minutes of streamed audio from Sunday’s NYCBSDCon session.
BSDTalk 160 is a longer-than-usual 40 minutes of audio right from NYCBSDCon. An interesting listen, especially if like me you wanted to go, but didn’t. (Stupid expensive NYC hotels…)
Apparently the version of BIND that comes with DragonFly is not built with support for DNSSEC. Matt Dillon posted from NYCBSDCon noting that, after hearing Jeremy C. Reed’s “Introduction to DNSSEC” presentation, maybe we should. Peter Avalos has a different argument: why bundle BIND at all?
Tomorrow: NYCBSDCon! In 1 week: EuroBSDCon!
Matthew has a small project for anyone who wants it: automatic creation of slaved pseudo file systems, for mirroring. Do this, and you make everyone’s life easier.
Matthew Dillon warns that there is a relatively unlikely chance of a crash with Hammer committing bad data to disk if you ‘continue’ in the debugger. Don’t do that, for now; it will be fixed soon.
Mattias Schmidt, Sascha Wildner, and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert are all going to the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin – speak up if you’re going too.
Did you know there was a “Berlin International Roguelike Development Conference 2008“? Me neither, but there’s video to prove it. (via)
Today is apparently crazy links day.
I find this strangely useful: a listing of equivalent concepts and commands, across a wide variety of Unix-ish systems. Be prepared to scroll, and make sure to check the extra links at the bottom. (via)
I don’t normally link to things like this, but these are useful: Woot! is running a special on a 2-pack of 5-outlet Power Squids. (Sorry, non-120v-3-prong European readers; won’t help you much…) Today only, like most Woot! specials.
Hasso Tepper’s continued to post better and better bulk build results from pkgsrc, and has more patches on the way for when the 2008Q3 release is done.
Hasso Tepper brought in a fix from OpenBSD for ssh; apparently empty banners on some types of network equipment would cause a disconnect. This isn’t major, but there may just be someone out there reading this for whom knowing about that saves a lot of frustration.
This entry on the OSBR blog links to the recent results of the OpenLogic open source survey. It also mentions some “free software for non-free platform” bundles that I hadn’t heard of, like OpenDisc and OSSWin.