Conventions – Page 16 – DragonFly BSD Digest

BSDNow 049 is titled “The PC-BSD Tour”, and gives exactly that during the show. They also talk about some recent news items that I missed, and point at some interesting things, like some recent BAFUG videos that made it online.

2014/08/04

OpenBSD Ports class for NYCBUG

NYCBUG is holding a OpenBSD Ports ‘class’ on August 6th (day after tomorrow). You can make a port of something you need, or work on something existing, hackathon style. See the announcement for details – you need to warn someone you are coming for building access.

2014/07/202014/07/19

Lazy Reading for 2014/07/20

I spent this week watching an older Cisco ASA slowly lose its ability to see parts of the Internet. How did I fix it? pfSense.

Unix: How passwords can improve your life.
Curated list of curated lists of awesome lists. I suppose this was inevitable. (via)
Hooray for USB. Really, it’s so successful we don’t even think about it any more.
A Game as Literary Tutorial. The influence of Dungeons and Dragons on writing. I’d describe it as a common nerd experience for people above 35 or so, similar to “your first computer”. (via)
Computer virus catalog. Surprisingly pretty. (via)
Why Outlook gets CTRL+F wrong.
Open (source) for business. Why aren’t open source software interfaces more polished? (via)
Cosmic rays: more likely a problem than you think. (via)
Inside bit.ly’s Distributed Systems. (via)
Huh, bzr appears to be dead, or as dead as any open source project can ever be. (via)
Making sure software stays insecure. I had to remove a preinstalled antivirus program from a Windows laptop yesterday… It did nothing, but you’d think I was lighting the motherboard on fire from the warnings it put on screen. (via)
The SIGCIS 2014 Workshop (on historical computing), happening in November in Michigan, has a call for papers out.
Time Management with Tom Limoncelli. He wrote the definitive book on the subject. (via) There’s plenty more videos at his site; I suggest setting aside some time to watch it. (ha!)

Your unrelated link of the week: Avery Monsen’s Vines. Vines are an excellent way to make a very short comedy sketch. Infinite Waffles and Break the Silence are my favorites so far. (via)

2014/07/192014/07/18

In Other BSDs for 2014/07/19

More than the usual source commit messages this week.

LibreSSL got another point release. And complaints. (via)
NetBSD 7’s branch date is planned.
FreeBSD 9.3 is released. EoL for 9.2 has been extended, too.
Cloning a FreeBSD/ZFS Machine with ‘zfs send’.
An OpenBSD hackathon means a lot of articles.
Troubleshooting Large, Stalling git/ssh Transfers.
pkg == systemd == government conspiracy. Surely, the writer can’t be real.
Installing and Using TarSnap. A BSD-friendly service.
DiscoverBSD’s 2014/07/14 roundup.
OpenBSD has OpenSSH and put together LibreSSL. OpenSSL bought… libressh.org? Use whois libressh.org to see. (no link; use your own whois lookup.) (via)
NetBSD has updated to dhcp 4.3.0.
OpenBSD has imported ucpp. (hope that’s the right ucpp; there’s lots out there)
One of those times it’s OK to store passwords in cleartext.
PC-BSD is now using Samba 4.1 by default.
OpenBSD has a new httpd(8). Bonus long-in-the-tooth joke, too.
Yay, SSL library cross-pollination.
Cross-cross-cross pollination, here. (someone do it in DragonFly, too)
ssh (on OpenBSD) now supports Unix domain socket forwarding.
EruoBSDCon 2014 is happening in Sofia, Bulgaria, in September. The FreeBSD Foundation is funding travelers.
A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-to.

2014/07/18

Interlock Roc: Linux Workshop

There’s an open source meetup at a hackerspace near me, happening tomorrow. Well, today by the time most people read this. Anyway, it’s at Interlock, starting at noon. I don’t think I’ll make it, but I’m always happy to see this stuff happen in my own town.

2014/07/17

H.O.P.E. starts tomorrow in NYC

HOPE X starts tomorrow in New York City and runs through the weekend. There will be some BSD people there. (see first line of link.)

2014/07/01

NYCBUG: Introduction to Timekeeping, 2014/07/02

I am pasting the announcement verbatim because NYCBUG is having some hardware issues with their mailing list archive. It’s interesting for both subject matter and because you get to see the inside of about.com. RSVP soon so you can get in!

2014-07-02 – Introduction to Timekeeping, Steven Kreuzer

6:45, about.com (1500 Broadway enter on 43rd Street, 6th Floor)
Notice: RSVP to rsvp at nycbug.org and bring photo ID. RSVPs must be
received by 2 PM, day-of.

Abstract

Time is a funny thing. You can spend it, save it, waste it and kill it,
but you can’t change it and there is never any more or less of it.
Everyone knows what it is and uses it every day but no one can seem to
define it.

In this talk I will provide a brief introduction to time, timekeeping,
and the uses of time information, especially in scientific and technical
areas.

2014/06/23

BSDDay 2014 call for talks

BSDDay 2014 is happening August 9th in Argentina, and the call for talks is out – there’s been DragonFly speakers and visitors there before.

2014/06/052014/06/05

BSDNow 040: AirPorts & Packages

BSDNow 040 has an interview with Karl Lehenbauer at FlightAware, a tutorial on OpenBSD’s packaging system, and more from BSDCan 2014.

2014/06/05

BSDTalk 242: Chris Buechler

BSDTalk 242 has 17 minutes of conversation with Chris Buechler (of pfSense fame), recorded at BSDCan 2014.

2014/05/312014/05/30

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/31

Some meaty links this week.

How old is your oldest on-disk Unixish operating system? I ask that question because I saw this.
Undeadly has a nice set of links to all the recent BSDCan 2014 presentation videos. I don’t see Francois Tigeot’s DragonFly talk in there, though – don’t know if it got recorded.
Packaging on FreeBSD, for those who haven’t moved to pkg yet. (via)
DiscoverBSD news summary for 2014/05/26.
56 different BSD-oriented Twitter accounts.
A recording of Michael W. Lucas’s recent OpenBSD webcast is available now. I think that link will work – might require giving your email.
Getting files off your Android phone – this was on openbsd-misc@ but probably applies to any BSD. Follow the thread for answers.
kornbrew, a run ‘n’ play missing package manager for BSD.
NetBSD has moved to gcc 4.8.3.
If you are using OpenBSD and encrypted vnd, you will need to migrate off of it before the next OpenBSD release.
Google’s Compute Engine SDK runs just fine on OpenBSD, as Michael W. Lucas found out.
PC-BSD Digest 30.
Plugins in FreeNAS.
Warren Block’s BSDCan 2014 trip report.

2014/05/272014/05/26

Calgary BSD users, take note

Normally I’d save this for the In Other BSDs weekend item, but the time horizon is too short: Theo De Raadt and Bob Beck are giving a last-minute LibreSSL talk tonight at the Calgary UNIX Users Group meeting at 5:30 PM. See www.cuug.ab.ca for the location.

2014/05/262014/05/24

BSDTalk 241: Bob Beck

BSDTalk 241 has Will Backman getting 26 minutes of conversation with Bob Beck at BSDCan 2014, the same fellow who presented the much-linked First 30 Days of LibreSSL talk.

2014/05/242014/05/23

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/24

A relatively calm week – probably because there were many people at BSDCan.

DiscoverBSD’s summary for 2014/05/19.
Undeadly has a summary post linking to all the OpenBSD presentations at BSDCan.
OpenBSD and the little Mauritian contributor. Hey, Loganaden was in the DragonFly GSoC… 3 years ago? It blurs together.
Julio Merino’s trip to BSDCan 2014 and his thoughts on Jenkins and Kyua after. I completely agree with what he says about BSD conventions: being around so many other people all excited about the same topic really energizes you.
CoovaChilli on FreeBSD.
NetBSD has support for the HYT-221/271/939 humidity/temperature I2C sensor.
Hey, that was nice of Mediatek to provide a free license for rum(4) in OpenBSD.
The EuroBSDCon papers deadline is extended a bit.
You can now see what your battery is supposed to have for capacity on OpenBSD.
Apache 1.3 and 2.0 are already depreciated and probably coming out of pkgsrc.
FreeBSD gains a driver for the Intel 40G Ethernet Controller XL710. There’s a long discussion on the list about the nonstandard i40evf name breaking things.
FreeBSD has sendmail 8.14.9.
FreeBSD has gained CUSE support. I can read what it does but don’t know where it’s used.

2014/05/23

DragonFly, PostgreSQL, PGCon, slides

The slides from Francois Tigeot’s talk about benchmarking DragonFly with PostgreSQL are now online – link is to a PDF.

2014/05/21

DragonFly, PostgreSQL, PGCon

Francois Tigeot is giving a talk tomorrow on benchmarking DragonFly using PostgreSQL, at PGCon 2014. PGCon is the PostgreSQL convention happening immediately after BSDCan in the same location, in case you didn’t know already.

2014/05/172014/05/17

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/17

Some leftovers from last week since I’m catching up, so get ready to read.

What’s wrong with systemd. Matches some of my thoughts – Linux is transitioning from being against the monolith of Microsoft, to assuming a dominant place. (via)
DiscoverBSD summary for 2014/05/12.
PC-BSD Digest 28 has images of the new AppCafe.
PC-BSD Digest 29 summarizes how PBIs are changing (for the better).
NanoBSD and Raspberry Pi. (via)
UNIX: Automating your server inventory (Mostly can apply to BSD systems)
BSD Magazine for April: Free Pascal and other topics.
LibreSSL will be portable. I still want a portable pf.
FreeBSD 8.3 is EOL.
Epoch, an init replacement to avoid systemd, may work on OpenBSD.
DMARC is causing some changes for FreeBSD mailing lists. (hey, this will affect DragonFly, too, maybe.)
The pkgsrc-wip@ mailing lists are now switched to tech-pkg@ for NetBSD.
OpenBSD now stack-shuffles.
FreeBSD has added the mrsas(4) driver. (Why doesn’t it show up in a man page search at the site?)
Sometimes, Google DTRT.
FreeBSD has added the LM75 i2c temp sensor driver.
JabirOS 2.0, a fork from FreeBSD 10.
Michael W. Lucas has some notes from the pre-BSDCan FreeBSD Devsummit.
If you dig into the BSDCan schedule, some of the presentation have slides linked. Undeadly has linked to a number of them directly.