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.
Software releses is the mini-theme, I guess.
- The important things about Unix init systems aren’t booting the system.
- The history (sort of) of service management in Unix, related to previous.
- OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems. (via)
- What’s Ahead for FreeBSD and the Foundation in 2022.
- The FreeBSD Boot Process. I like that Klara Systems just keeps publishing articles.
- NFS Shares With ZFS.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/21.
- Packaging CopperSpice.
- [OpenBSD]-current has moved to 7.1-beta.
- Recent developments in OpenBSD, 2022-02-21 summary.
BSD Now this week leads with a link to the Quora article about Mac OS X’s journey to UNIX certification, which you should read if you have not already. There’s more links of course, including one on getting streaming commercial media playing on FreeBSD.
If you enjoy reading my posts, whether the DragonFly-specific material during the week or the weekend rollups, I have a Patreon account where you can effectively tip me.
I’m not trying to turn this into real income, so I haven’t been plugging it – but a number of people have been contributing and I really appreciate it. I have my own reoccurring Patreon pledges, and this is a good time to point you at Linda Medley (cause I have a number of her books), ABBADON (for Kill Six Billion Demons), and Cooking Issues (cause their podcast is fun). None of that is BSD or even computer related.
I know I’ll need this again, so I am making a post out of it. If you are running a DragonFly system through NVMM using the excellent site instructions, and you want X apps to display on a local Windows workstation, you need to:
- Install VcXsrv (or your X server of choice) on Windows and start it up.
- Install xauth and xterm on the DragonFly host.
- On the DragonFly host, set these three options in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. They are already there but commented out with different arguments.
X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 0 X11UseLocalhost yes
- Reload sshd: ‘service sshd reload’.
- ‘Enable X11 Forwarding’ under Connection -> SSH -> X11 in the puTTY setup dialog.
Connect to the DragonFly host with puTTY, type ‘xterm’, and a terminal window should appear on your Windows desktop within a few seconds. This could be turned into a shortcut with puTTY to avoid having redundant terminals, but I’m not writing that out yet.
I use date(1) just rarely enough that I can never remember the right arguments to create a human-readable result. Now, there’s an -I arg to date(1) that uses a word instead of a format string to get ISO8601 output.
No mini-theme this week.
- lofi generator. Pleasant, though it says something that it can be autogenerated. (via)
- Animated Engines. (also via)
- Real Spaceships. Interesting but I can’t take a chonky shuttle seriously. (via, via)
- Everything I Know About Life I Learned From PowerPoint. Not the book itself, but a list of the resources used for the book, all of which are useful.
- Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now. (via)
- Reed-alert: five years later.
- Tedium on self-hosting / cloud service replacement. A good article.
- Vintage Computer Festival East (NJ) is in-person, February 26th.
- Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported. (via)
- SheepSforza: the SheepShaver Power Mac emulator for OpenPOWER. (via)
- Ketchup mayo mustard.
- Manicules.
- The Influence of Roguelike Visuals.
No theme this week other than of course BSD.
- Sensors Information on FreeBSD.
- pkgsrc-2021Q4 is out.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/14.
- New ‘Reckless guide to OpenBSD’ published. Weekly installments.
- Charity Auction: DNSSEC Mastery proof for Black Girls Code. Note the daemon on the cover.
- My Journey from macOS to FreeBSD. (via)
- Debugging an Ioctl Problem on OpenBSD. (via)
- pfSense Plus version 22.01 and pfSense CE version 2.6.0 Software are Now Available. (via)
- Keeping old Unix/Linux up-to-date with pkgsrc. (via)
- The complete idiot’s guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro. (via)
This will happen before the normal In Other BSDs post, so I am posting it now: there’s a GhostBSD virtual meetup happening tonight.
This week’s BSD Now talks about a reoccurring topic for me: how UNIX happened. It links to that Kernighan talk that you should watch, too.
I realize my title is a little bit buffalo buffalo buffalo, but it makes sense: getopt(3) now has a double colon option to indicate an optional argument. I link to it because I like seeing the length of the trip to DragonFly. It started as a GNU option, then showed up in NetBSD, brought to FreeBSD, and now I’m posting about it.
SEMIBUG’s meeting tonight has Susan Hurst presenting on database implementation, via Jitsi. 7 PM Michigan time.
Old hardware is the mini-theme.
- RAIN PSP, a homebrew 80s-style laptop.
- Cosmic Background Radiation Dice. Of course a nixie display.
- The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2021. (via)\
- ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories: Seeking Submissions and Pitches! (via)
- Video game preservation vs copyright. I’m still not sure who owns Castle Wolfenstein. (via)
- CR+LF has a long history. (via)
- GitHub – ViolenceWorks/VT-69. Possibly vapor but looks neat. (via)
- PC booting from a vinyl record (turn volume down). (via)
- DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, creeping out.
- My retrocomputer projects, Q1 2022.
- Epitaph to Laptops.