Tomorrow: NYCBSDCon! In 1 week: EuroBSDCon!
Matthew has a small project for anyone who wants it: automatic creation of slaved pseudo file systems, for mirroring. Do this, and you make everyone’s life easier.
Matthew Dillon warns that there is a relatively unlikely chance of a crash with Hammer committing bad data to disk if you ‘continue’ in the debugger. Don’t do that, for now; it will be fixed soon.
Mattias Schmidt, Sascha Wildner, and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert are all going to the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin – speak up if you’re going too.
Did you know there was a “Berlin International Roguelike Development Conference 2008“? Me neither, but there’s video to prove it. (via)
Today is apparently crazy links day.
I find this strangely useful: a listing of equivalent concepts and commands, across a wide variety of Unix-ish systems. Be prepared to scroll, and make sure to check the extra links at the bottom. (via)
I don’t normally link to things like this, but these are useful: Woot! is running a special on a 2-pack of 5-outlet Power Squids. (Sorry, non-120v-3-prong European readers; won’t help you much…) Today only, like most Woot! specials.
Hasso Tepper’s continued to post better and better bulk build results from pkgsrc, and has more patches on the way for when the 2008Q3 release is done.
Hasso Tepper brought in a fix from OpenBSD for ssh; apparently empty banners on some types of network equipment would cause a disconnect. This isn’t major, but there may just be someone out there reading this for whom knowing about that saves a lot of frustration.
This entry on the OSBR blog links to the recent results of the OpenLogic open source survey. It also mentions some “free software for non-free platform” bundles that I hadn’t heard of, like OpenDisc and OSSWin.
Robert Luciani’s EuroBSDCon bachelor’s thesis presentation on DragonFly’s threading model is available as a PDF. (anyone have a mirror? That link is intermittent.) Previous versions have been linked here before.
The latest 12-minute BSDTalk has an interview with Kris Moore, one of the folks involved in PC-BSD. Version 7 of PC-BSD was just released.
The most recent @Play article talks about Legerdemain, a cross between roguelikes and old-style RPGs like Ultima. It’s old school twice over.
The entries in the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition are all available. (Think Infocom-style games.) (via)
Hasso Tepper has committed Sascha Wildner’s port of FreeBSD’s devinfo(3) and devinfo(8), for “userspace access to the internal device hierarchy”. Hasso also updated acpi_battery(4), for battery monitoring.
He’s also ported devd(8) from FreeBSD, with an inital patch for testing.
Mitja Horvat purchased an Intel D945GCLF motherboard, which worked fine with DragonFly except for some minor issues with hardware checksumming on the Realtek 8102EL network card.  He supplied a patch to fix this, which was committed. Edward O’Callaghan chimed in with some history of why this particular card was problematic in DragonFly and other operating systems.
Michael Neumann has a patch that makes DragonFly able to run on VirtualBox; Matthew Dillon has a suggestion on how to make the fix permanent, which also may help with clock timing under other virtualized setups.
Somehow I missed this commit, but DragonFly 2.0.1 is out, with many changes to Hammer and other miscellaneous updates.
This week’s BSDTalk is a 24-minute talk with Chess Griffin, who put together the 100-podcast LinuxReality series.