NYCBUG’s having a meeting tomorrow night, with Amitai Schleier presenting on qmail. Go, if you are near, or at least read Amitai’s speaker bio.
Because someone decided years and years ago that the CAM structures should be passed through to userland, smartctl, camcontrol, cdrecord, and some other tools will be broken in DragonFly-master for a few days. If you are on -stable (5.4) this won’t affect you.
I’m going to break out the roguelike tag again even if it isn’t a perfect fit.
- Vintage CGI.
- The Gemini palmtop. (via)
- From Vimperator to Tridactyl. (via)
- A Kernel of Failure.
- Drinking coffee with AWK. Accounting through text stream editing. (via)
- Civilisational HTTP Error Codes. (via I lost it, sorry)
- Leon: An open-source personal assistant. Comments at the source link led me to Mycroft again.
- Ringen (1979). Second-oldest non-English text adventure known, preserved because it was brought into a MUD.
- Using Vim to take time-stamped notes. (via)
- How Fair Is My D20? (via)
- Google-free Android Setup. (via)
- Scientology and the Fellowship. I did not know about this Ultima link at all.
- Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements. (via)
- Dwarf Fortress diary: The Basement of Curiosity episode seven – The Battle of Carambola Ridge.
- How I’m still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal. (via)
- Rich’s sh (POSIX shell) tricks. (via)
I didn’t even realize Summer of Code was upon us again.
- Hello world, no root. (NetBSD on Nintendo64). (via)
- Google Summer of Code 2019 participants: FreeBSD, NetBSD.
- Why OpenBSD rocks. (via)
- SecBSD: Unix-like operating system focused on computer security. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I’ve been lax in linking to the previous 12.
- back of the napkin freebsd hardware?
- OPNsense 19.1.2 released.
- [packages] PostgreSQL major update. (OpenBSD)
- The New iXsystems.com Experience.
- ARM’d and dangerous: FreeBSD on Cavium ThunderX (aarch64).
- Improvements to X86FixupGadgets pass of clang(1). (OpenBSD)
- New VPN FAQ.
- [OpenBSD] 6.5-beta has been tagged.
- BSD Link Roundup 2/21.
- Valuable News – 2019/02/25.
- FuguIta – based on OpenBSD. (via)
Sepherosa Ziehau’s improvements to re(4), bringing it to Realtek’s 1.95 release, have been committed.
(Does Realtek have a public repo for this? A few minutes of Googling did not turn one up for me.)
This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of NetBSD things including rc.d as you might guess, and covers Project Trident. Listen/read in if you are unfamiliar.
Thanks to tuxillo and others, there’s a new build of dports on the way for DragonFly 5.4 that includes packages that weren’t building before – mongodb, kodi, mysql80, and I imagine more that I don’t know about. If the synth build is still running when you read this, you can look at its status page. If it isn’t running, the packages are of course in the normal place and you can use ‘pkg upgrade’ to get them.
Yay, got to use the roguelike tag!
- ARPANET: Celebrating 50 Years Since “LO”. There’s a transcript farther down the page if you don’t want to watch the video; I am always grateful for transcripts. (via)
- THROBAC, a computer using Roman numerals. I had no idea this could exist.(via)
- Aspell to check spelling.
- Drist release with persistent ssh.
- Open protocols can evolve fast if they’re willing to break other people.
- Why I like middle mouse button paste in xterm so much.
- Using
grepwith/dev/null, an old Unix trick. Muscle memory. - Bad PC cases.
- Cygwin 3.0.0-1. (via)
- Level Design and Shaping a Roguelike Experience. I linked to Cogmind 4 years ago, and it has significantly grown since then. Note to self: play. (via)
- Ask laarc: What apps do you love and/or use habitually?
- Ultima VII. Deep dive into a deep game.
- Dwarf Fortress diaries: 3, a gruesome winter, 4 – Messages from Zon, 5 – culture war, dingo war, and 6 – Through the Interesting Door.
- Landley’s Computer History Page. There’s a lot of history there. Plus BSD history! (via)
- Using gmail with mutt. (via)
- Writing a Rust Roguelike for the Desktop and the Web. (via)
- Restoring My 90’s Era 386 (Work in Progress). Back when heatsinks were much less necessary. (via)
- Split keyboards, a five year experience and review. Source comments led me to Keyboardio, which is nice hardware… and can be reprogrammed by the end user! That’s the way it should be.
Built entirely from open tabs.
- Porting Zig to NetBSD – a fun, speedy port. (via)
- pkgsrcCon 2019 – 13th – 14th of July 2019, Cambridge, UK. (via)
- HAXM in pkgsrc (hardware-assisted virtualization engine). (via)
- QEMU HAXM on NetBSD. (via)
- The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. Which is the same basic system across all BSDs I think. (via)
- Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
- openrsync imported into the tree. In OpenBSD.
- Hardware for a Linux/BSD Friendly Workstation.
- Valuable News – 2019/02/15.
- SoloBSD 19.02-STABLE.
- Update pfSense packages to protect against NGINX, libzmq4, and curl vulnerabilities.
- OpenBSD and iscsi, part 1 and part 2.
- How to run Axiom Verge on OpenBSD (Epic Store version).
- mupen64plus 2.5.9 (2.6 beta) call for testing. A N64 emulator on OpenBSD. (via)
- Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS.
- Faster vlan(4) forwarding? – blog post by mpi@.
- FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” first draft complete and “Sudo Mastery, Second Edition” and Cover Art.
This week’s BSD Now, the satisfyingly-numbered 286, covers a number of topics – including 2 things I have always been entertained by: small X tools and Windowmaker.
Tobias Florek had a soft model made of Fred, the DragonFly mascot, years ago. He is moving and found a few unsold units. If you are in Europe (for shipping), and are interested in them, contact Tobias at dragonfly@ibotty.net.
If you don’t remember them: here’s the pictures.
SemiBUG’s normal meeting place is not available this month, so there’s an informal get-together at Leo’s next door, like last month. It’s happening tonight at 7 PM.
Update: I put the wrong publish date on this – “tonight” is the 19th for this, not the 17th.
Do you have Realtek hardware for your network link? Specifically, re(4)? Then Sepherosa Ziehau has a patch for you to try.
There’s some extended reading in these links; I hope you have some time on your hands for a deep dive today.
- Warp: playing offline. Saving an architecture to play a game.
- SET THE FLUX CAPACITOR FOR 12/30/1899. (via)
- PC Speaker to Eleven. (also via)
- Listening to the internet…
- Quotes from 1992.
- Wikimedia is hiring.
- A touchpad is not a mouse, or at least not a good one.
- Related: Making more use of keyboard control over window position and size.
- The IBM PC. Harvard Business Review on open platforms.
- Lighting up my DasKeyboard with Blood Sugar changes using my body’s REST API. (via)
- bd, bn, bp, ls, w, e, & me. Buffers over files in Vim.
- Emacs X Window Manager. I am losing track of what controls what. (via)
- Previous: NeXT computer hardware emulator. (via)
- MIT Hacker Tools. Generalized how-to-use UNIX tools. Much better than the usual overview articles you see, probably because it’s an actual course. (via)
- Computer hardware notes. A collection of one person’s hardware anecdotes, stretching from Crays, decades ago, to modern events. (via)
- Betamaxed, about version control systems. An even-handed appraisal, not just an anecdote. (via)
Your unrelated video of the week: DOCTOR WHAT. (via)
This is all backlogged links; I have even more tabs open.
- awesome-bsd, a list. (via)
- OpenBSD’s KSH.
- Revised KSH.
- Anyone using pfsense or similar for a medium size company?
- MirBSD errors “Device not configured” during installation on VirtualBox?
- Pull-based Backups using OpenBSD base. I like the ‘using native tools’ approach. (via)
- A bit of Sun’s history that still lingers on in Illumos. A BSD bit.
- Customizing OpenBSD xenodm. (via)
- Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
- OPNsense 19.1.1 released.
- How to parallelize Drist.
- Installing NetBSD on Wyse Winterm S10. (via)
- NomadBSD review. This… could be called a “distro”. (via)
- FreeNAS 11.1-U7 is now available. (via)
- Project Trident 18.12-U3 Available. (via)
- How to Install GNOME on FreeBSD. There’s a lot of ads on that page… maybe don’t bother. (via)
- OpenBSD gaming discovery. YES PLAY THESE EVERYONE CAN.
- Port of the week: sct. Applies to I think all BSDs.
- Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant. (via)
- Valuable News – 2019/02/08. If these links aren’t enough for you.
- What should I do if my BIOS doesn’t support toggle between integrated and accelerated graphics cards?
- is there a way to install any BSD flavor under an extended partition (MBR)?
- Vincent Delft talk at FOSDEM 2019: OpenBSD as a full-featured NAS. The one BSD I haven’t heard of for storage.
- Thoughts on FreeNAS 11.2. (via)
- Why BSD over Linux?
- mGBA emulator’s new 0.7.0 release gets pledge support on OpenBSD. (via)
- Quickly post-FOSDEM.
- End-Of-January Update. Includes possible FreeBSD Mastery: Jails cover.
- PostgreSQL vs. fsync. FOSDEM 2019 presentation, includes fsync on BSDs. (via)
Two minor things that were keeping me from mounting Windows shares on boot of my DragonFly system: the right location for nsmb.conf and using proper capitalization. I’m writing it here to save someone else 10 minutes of search.
This week’s BSD Now (video) gets into a recent article about FreeBSD planning, plus a note about a famous book, plus of course more.
Some time back, Ján Su?an fixed up some firmware issues on DragonFly. He’s published a first stab at attaching firmware information to files; it’s up for review now and he’d like feedback. Please tell him what you think, if you’re interested in this topic.
‘mazocomp’ has updated the DragonFly mirrors list to include HTTPS links where appropriate, which would be most everywhere. An excellent idea.
While I’m talking about mirrors, there’s some new DPorts pkg mirrors too.