Episode 447, “Path to BSD” is up now, as is 446, “Debugging ioctl problems“. 446 was up last week but I missed my change to link to it. Check the Tadpole link if you have not; those are a weird chunk of history.
It’s apparently possible to get a panic by yanking a HAMMER2 disk out of your system, which is only likely when using a USB thumb drive, formatting it to HAMMER2, and not bothering to unmount it. Anyway, that poorly-described-by-me problem is fixed.
Old computer mini-theme.
- POCKIT, a modular computer. (via)
- Exploring the Amiga. (via)
- Remote Desktop Fun For Your Old Macintosh. (via)
- Some tiny personal programs I’ve written. (via)
- More Than a Dozen Command Line Tools I’ve Written. (via)
- Relativistic Ray Tracing.
- A Colorful “Peek” at the Graphics Performance of the Apple II.
- Smurk (1981/1982). Linked for the Smurfenstein screenshot.
- A UTF-8 / Ruby tutorial. (via)
- History of Interactive Computing. (video, via)
You will notice some clustering of links; my list filled up fast.
- Where
cutcomes into Unix (and a bit on the history ofawk) - Why no Unix error device? and There is a Unix error device.
- FreeBSD 13.1-beta available.
- FreeBSD 2021 Q4 status report.
- Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence.
- ZFS Boot Environments Revolutions.
- Valuable News – 2022/03/14.
- My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting.
- Retina, HiDPI scaling in KDE Plasma.
- Committing dotfiles and other essentials. I already copy .vimrc around too much.
helloSystem 0.6.0 is out.As is the experimental version. 0.7.0 is most recent.- Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code.
- FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
- FreeBSD on the CubieBoard2.
There’s an odd bug in ipfw that is now fixed in DragonFly 6.2/6.3. If you are using ipfw and adding networks and hosts in a specific order, the netmask will be set wrong.
There’s also a problem with the overnight bulkfree cleanup in Hammer that’s had various attempts to fix it over time – it’s now really truly fixed. It mattered only if you had an extremely large number of inodes – 100000000 or so,
Matthew Dillon wrote up an explanation for both.
ChiBUG’s monthly (rescheduled) meeting is tonight. RSVP if you can attend, to make sure the restaurant has the seating.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is tomorrow. If you don’t know what Backus-Naur is, this meeting is via Jitsi and you can find out.
If you were hoping for a mini-theme of synthesizers, you are in luck.
- Chonky Palmtop.
- What’s your favorite vim shortcut/hack
- My New Old Apple Macintosh SE/30 Computer. (via)
- Emulating Vintage Mac Compilers. (via)
- The problem of keeping track of hardlinks as you traverse a directory tree. Linked cause this was a pain for HAMMER2, too.
- Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: Composition (1905 edition).
- Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing. (via)
- The Sinclair QL. (also via)
- The Casio QA-100, a simulated synth/sequencer. (via)
- The Casio MT-40/MT-41 and sleng teng riddim, the start of dancehall. (via)
- Original Jungle Samples. (via)
- Making Portishead’s “Dummy”: The Production Experiments of a Trip-Hop Classic. (via)
- An Improvement on the Pomodoro Technique.
- All desktop calculators are wrong, so I had to build my own. (via)
No theme, but decent material.
- OpenBSD 7.1 beta running Xfce4 bare metal on an M1 MacBook Air.
- On overwriting disks (on OpenBSD 7.0-current). (via)
- Native IPv6 with OpenBSD and Aussie Broadband. (via)
- FreeBSD Journal – 2022 – 01/02. (via)
- Valuable News – 2022/03/08.
- FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q4.
- Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server.
- Unix Philosophy: A Quick Look at the Ideas that Made Unix.
- Tuning Laptop Power Consumption on FreeBSD. (via)
- mtw(4), a driver for MediaTek MT7601U Wi-Fi devices.
This week’s BSD Now has a nicely eclectic group of links, including one to a music server that is new to me, Navidrome.
Sandy River is the newest DragonFly mirror, with ISOs and dports packages.
SLUUG (St. Louis Unix Users Group) is meeting tonight and Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation is presenting, among others. It’s available through Zoom.
CHIBUG’s monthly meeting is in-person at the usual place tonight at 6.
UPDATE: It’s been rescheduled for the 15th.
It’s based off 2022Q1 from FreeBSD Ports, and it’s available now through pkg.
No mini-theme.
- The day the IoT died. “they are future-proofing us as a consumer for them, not the things they sell us”. (via, via)
- More Cyberdecks should have CRTs instead of LCDs.
- DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd edition is out.
- Predicting developments in real world conflict from patterns of failed logins.
- XScreenSaver 6.03 is out.
- Usenet over NNCP. NNCP is new to me. (via)
- Obsolete technologies that will baffle future generations. All of these were present at the same time just 20 years ago. (via)
- Map of Reddit and wilderness.land. (Both via)
- VIM – Minimal Setup Explained. (via)
- Winamp 2 reimplemented for the browser. (via)
- Vmail. Vole mail. (via)
Mini-theme: releases.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/28.
- ChiBUG, meeting March 8th at 6 PM in-person. Go if you are near.
- OpenBSD Webzine issue 7.
- Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu.
- multimc failed to allocate memory.
- Milky Way v0.4 release.
- Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3 Part 1: Introduction. (via)
- OPNsense 21.7.8, 21.10.3 Business Edition, and 22.1.1 released.
- OpenSSH updated to 8.9.
- LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released.
- FreeBSD 12.2 end-of-life.
- FreeBSD Foundation is looking for proposals.
There’s a new page on the DragonFly site covering how to install DragonFly as a guest system under KVM.
This week’s BSD Now is all history-linked material, which is totally fine by me.
If you run pkg on DragonFly and get a warning about “Meta v1 support ending”, it’s only a warning. It will go away on its own.
This was done early; there’s been a lot of interesting reads on the feeds, so to speak.
- Ask Tilde: What small internet protocols do you like?
- 2022 IGF nominees: on history, intimate and/or personal, miscellaneous, fireworks.
- Animation Storage, animations from the 60s-70s. (via)
- Aleister Crowley, sysadmin.
- A Web Around the World, Part 3: …Try, Try Again, and Part 4: From Telegraphy to Telephony.
- Year 2038 problem is still alive and well. (via)
- Yarchive, a lot of archived USENET. There are some gems in the computer section, like this. (via)
- The benefits and costs of writing a POSIX kernel in a high-level language. Easier to debug, less memory control. (PDF, via)
- The Plausibly Deniable DataBase (PDDB).
- Precursor: From Boot to Root.
- Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy. (PDF, via)
- Ubuntu limits the console kernel log level even on servers. I’d rather have noise than missing info.
- Refurb weekend: Texas Instruments Silent 700 Model 745 teletype.
- 50 Years of Text Games: HUTSPIEL and Dr. Dorothy Clark.