April 8th is a month away, and it’s the deadline if you want to register for pkgsrcCon 2007, happening in Barcelona, Spain from April 27th to the 29th. The deadline for presentations is April 1st. (no fooling!)
As part of a larger discussion about logging IRC channels, Dmitri Nikulin wrote an interesting pasage on security and encryption, and how governments tend to work around rather than break encryption.
On UnixReview.com this week, Shell Corner has “Epoch to UTC Time Conversion“, a script that may be very useful to U.S. and Canadian residents this upcoming weekend, a (digital) book review of “Cisco Firewall Technologies“, and a hardware review of the “Adderlink IP”, which works as a VNC station for attaching to a KVM.
Antonio Huete Jiménez has written a new wiki article on how to set up a network card using WPA, on DragonFly.
YONETANI Tomokazu has managed to get DragonFly partially booting on an Intel Mac.
www.dragonflybsd.org and leaf.dragonflybsd.org are getting upgraded to 1.8; this may mean some intermittent downtime over the next week.
As part of a larger discussion, ‘walt’ posted a link to a description of Logical Block Addressing and how it’s slightly less annoying than using CHS (Cylinder, Head, Sector).
Adrian Michael Nida cobbled together a bot to watch the EFNet channel #dragonflybsd and keep a running log, available via the web. He still has some features he wants to add – if you know python, please contribute.
OnLAMP.com has a new article up about Multiboot; it focuses on NetBSD, but it’s the same i386 hardware as DragonFly.
KernelTrap has a post up about the clustering file system that Matthew Dillon is designing. That’s not news to regular readers here, but there was an interesting comment on the story about an existing clustered filesystem called “Lustre“.
Matthew Dillon’s written up a description of how indexing (via B+trees) will be handled in his as-of-yet-unnamed clustering file system.
If you are running a DragonFly system older than version 1.6, and you are in North America using something other than UTC time, you will need to manually update your tzinfo files to reflect the changed (in 2005, taking effect this year) Daylight Savings Time start and stop dates. If you are on UTC or are running 1.6+, you are fine.
AsiaBSDCon 2007 has no DragonFly-specific events happening at this point – Masao Uebayashi posted a neighborly welcome for any DragonFly developers to join the NetBSD discussion and beer party on March 9th, starting at 13:00.
OSNews has a news story up about Matthew Dillon’s planned new filesystem, with comments of varying utility.
I didn’t know this, but it’s very simple to assign VLANs to your network interfaces in DragonFly.
YONETANI Tomokazu happens to know the secret to building multiple kernels at once.
This week on UnixReview.com: the Regular Expressions article “Tcl Scores High in RE Performance“, “Examining the Novell Certified Linux Engineer 10 Certification“, “Test Your Knowledge of HTML Topics” in Q&A format, a book review of “The Relational Database Dictionary“, and a very silly “Codysseus: A Geek Travesty by Erudil“.
Sascha Wildner has a version of DragonFly 1.8 compiled using NATA, the new ATA system, available on leaf.dragonflybsd.org. (Link goes directly to a bzipped ISO) Try it if you’ve had trouble getting DragonFly to install on a system with a very new SATA controller.
“I’m BSD” – linked by Thomas Spanjaard.
