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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.

2014/04/122014/04/11

In Other BSDs for 2014/04/12

Some out-of-the-ordinary things this week.

BSDTV, a new YouTube channel. It has several videos from the recent NYCBSDCon.
pfSense 2.1.1 is out. No, wait, it’s 2.1.2!
Installing packages from a custom FreeBSD repository. Applies to DragonFly, too.
DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/04/07.
A partially tongue-in-cheek suggestion for an OpenOpenSSL.
FreeBSDNews.net is now owned by? maintained by? iXSystems, which seems to be singlehandedly building as much FreeBSD ecosystem as possible – that’s good!
Bitrig is dropping i386 support.
FreeBSD Journal #2 is out.
The OpenBSD Foundation reached their goal for the year.
The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off their campaign.
PC-BSD Digest 25 is out.
Mount your NetBSD ISO directly from the file server.
FreeBSD supports UDP-Lite, which appears to be the network protocol equivalent of turning over a bucket of ball bearings and saying “Grab what you can.”
OpenBSD starts to bring back 4.4BSD more.
Peter N. M. Hansteen wants to know what you do with OpenBSD in a conference-presentationish sort of way. Specifically, EuroBSDCon.
Jordan Hubbard talks about compiler choices for FreeBSD, and points out that the processor choices these days are Intel or ARM, and that’s it.

2014/04/052014/04/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/04/05

Another week.

BSDCan 2014 will have the BSD Professional Certification exam available (as beta)
“The Design And Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System” second edition, is up for pre-order. (comments are rude/funny.)
The DiscoverBSD summary for 2014/03/31.
The PC-BSD Digest 24.
reop, an follow-up from OpenBSD’s signify
The FreeBSDNews link roundup.
Michael W. Lucas follows up on a prank with a description of how to get a BSD convention going.
Peter N. M. Hansteen wants feedback on his BSDCan tutorials.
Joystick support always sounds like a good idea.
The Playstation 2 is back as a NetBSD platform.
Turn partitions into disk images on FreeBSD.
You can possibly create x86 USB images with NetBSD. (you couldn’t before?)
NetBSD imported starsign, for signing data. Since it’s an external program, I tried searching for its origin… Google failed spectacularly, with astrology links galore.
NetBSD also added dust, which appears to be a sensible utility. (Update: both this and starsign apparently written by Alistair Crooks.)
I didn’t know serial ports could go this fast.
pkgsrc-2014Q1 is out.
Pkgsrc is looking at signing packages, too.
Some conversation about building machines with a bunch of network ports. From openbsd-misc, but probably applies across the board.
Video of the April 1 NYCBUG presentation on random number generation is available.

2014/04/012014/03/13

Random Number Generators at NYU/NYCBUG

NYCBUG is presenting Yevgeniy Dodis at NYU (Warren Weaver Hall, room 101, 251 Mercer Street, NYC) at 7:15 PM tonight, speaking about building your own random number generator in both correct and incorrect ways.

2014/03/222014/03/28

In Other BSDs for 2014/03/22

I have a list of commits I’ve saved between the various BSDs of licenses getting corrected to the 2-clause BSD license; that would definitely be a good cross-BSD project to sync.

DiscoverBSD has a free KVM VPS for the taking – if you write about the BSD-specific thing you are doing with it.
Also, DiscoverBSD’s news summary for the 17th.
OpenBSD packages are generally up to date. The place I found this linked has comments noting the need to run multiple versions of Ruby to test – even multiple subversions, like different revisions of 1.9.x. I think that points at a different problem…
There’s mg, which is a ‘micro GNU/Emacs’, found in OpenBSD. There’s also apparently a portable version. (via)
OpenBSD’s upd(4) needs testing.
OpenBSD has switched to Unbound, and it is apparently easy to enable DNSSEC.
I didn’t expect rcp to be removed from OpenBSD, or a Thulsa Doom reference.
Two small package managers for OpenBSD: sqlport and pkg_mgr.
The hp300, mvme68k and mvme88k ports are gone from OpenBSD.
If you’re using pkgsrc, php-fpm may be a better module than mod_php.
FreeBSD has a faster SHA2.
pkgsrcCon 2014’s Call for Papers is up.
PC-BSD Digest 22.
Hubert Feyrer has linked some NetBSD-specific slides from AsiaBSDCon 2014.
Michael W. Lucas’s NYCBSDCon 2014 talk is up on Youtube.

2014/03/012014/02/28

In Other BSDs for 2014/03/01

Another week where I barely need to look up source code commits.

PC-BSD Weekly Digest 18 and Digest 19.
OpenBSD’s signify tool has been backported to OpenBSD versions < 5.5.
Video of an OpenBSD install.
xorg, unprivileged on OpenBSD. (via)
This is a good idea: FreeBSD 10’s release.sh mapped out.
bcrypt() updates in OpenBSD and what it means for you. (also)
iXSystem’s NYCBSDCon 2014 recap. (via nycbug-talk)
A description of those expensive/busy WhatsApp FreeBSD servers. (via)
FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis. (via #nycbug)
NetBSD is bringing in BIND 9.10.0b1. (a beta?)
NetBSD is also in the process of moving from gcc 4.5 to 4.8.
Yes, You Too Can Be An Evil Network Overlord. I still haven’t set up the Netflow system that I want to set up, dangit.
pkg will require libucl. This affects FreeBSD and will affect DragonFly too.
OpenBSD has an experimental USB installer. This may be new to the upcoming release – I don’t know.

2014/02/252014/02/24

BSD Events to suggest

I’m helping out at the BSD Events website. If there’s upcoming BSD-linked events, please tell me. Speaking of which: the call for papers for EuroBSDCon 2014 is out, as is the BSDCan 2014 schedule.

2014/02/192014/02/19

Tokyo meeting and Open Network Hardware

I was remiss in not posting this before it happened, but Issac (.ike) Levy of NYCBUG went to Tokyo to talk about the translation efforts for pfSense, on the 17th. He posted a summary of his talk and slides.

Normally I would be posting this in an “In Other BSDs” Saturday item, but the summary page includes links on Open Network Hardware, which .ike and I talked about at NYCBSDCon. I wanted to create a separate post for it, but he’s got all the links piled in with his talk summary already.

The hardware I want to see as a real product is the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design. (PDF) Having a device that looks like a switch but is actually a normal computer with a lot of network ports – that can run BSD – opens up a huge range of network possibilities.

2014/02/13

BSDTalk 238: NYCBSDCon

For BSDTalk 238, Will Backman has recordings from NYCBSDCon 2014. I think I’m in there, even though I haven’t listened to it yet.

2014/02/11

HOPE X this summer

HOPE X, the 2600 conference, is happening July 18-20 in NYC. It’s not specifically BSD-themed, of course, but given that I heard about it at NYCBSDCon means there will be BSD people there.