If you upgrade pkg on your system, it may start erroring out. This is because the default config will confuse the newer version. To fix this, you can copy over a working config and the problem will go away. I expect this may only be a problem until the next release.
This is a good week for variety; I managed to get historical links, game links, music links, hardware… checking all the boxes except roguelikes, darnit.
- The Design of the Roland Juno oscillators. Nicely explained. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games, a new year each week, and here’s the post schedule, and of course, 1971: The Oregon Trail. (via)
- Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator. (via)
- How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out.
- 7-screen laptop, from a year ago. (via)
- Christmas Cards The Unix Way – with pic and troff. (video)
- Systems design explains the world: volume 1.
- Our alerts are quiet most of the time (as they should be). I wish this was more common.
- The 100 Best Albums of 2020. You will find something unexpected in there. (via)
- Repairing and bootstrapping an IBM PC/AT 5170, Part 3.
- Embedding an SQL injection into a company name. (via)
- The Immortal Soul of an Old Machine, 40th anniversary review of The Soul of a New Machine. (via)
- Now here’s a geek watch.
- ASCII Weather Station.
- ECC RAM and why it’s useful.
- Intellivision returns. (via)
- Plaintext HTTP in a Modern World.
This bulked up fast this week.
- Xfce 4.16 has landed in FreeBSD ports. (via)
- List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD. (via)
- GNU Date and several versions of RFC 3339 dates.
- Reviving the 1973 Unix text to voice translator. (via)
- FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM. (via)
- Remote work notes from a longtime BSD developer. (via)
- pkgsrc-2020Q4 released.
- HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report.
- Submitting to dmesgd with curl. (via)
- sysctl parameter
kern.video.recordadded to -current. - Self-host a password manager on OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/01/04.
- BSD Tip: adding a new user.
- GZDoom on OpenBSD using Intel Vulkan.
- Recommendations for an emulation focused OBSD Gaming Rig?
MAP_VPAGETABLE has been removed in DragonFly because of conflicts with recent pmap work. This has the unfortunate effect of breaking vkernel(7), but vkernels can be resurrected with changes to use hardware virtualization support.
Note that running DragonFly as a VM is unaffected; that’ll still work just fine. This breakage is DragonFly-vkernel-on-DragonFly specific.
This week’s BSD Now talks about the usual hardware, but also gets into the recently announced Allen K. Briggs scholarship.
Aaron LI has ported timeout(1) to DragonFly. It’s a way to run a command with a time limit, and I’m happy to say it is a cross-BSD item, coming from NetBSD by way of FreeBSD.
It’s online, so everyone can go to “Chatting About TLS and Orcs, by Michael W. Lucas“, tomorrow night. I’m putting this reminder the day before because you have to mail rsvp@lists.nycbug.org to get the Zoom invite.
I’m doing a catch-up post here to note all the smaller updates, some cross-BSD, that have gone into DragonFly in the last week or two: openresolv 3.12.0, dhcpcd 9.4.0, tzdata2020f, 802.11 channel definitions, stdbuf(1) and libstdbuf(3), sockaddr_snprintf(), and getaddrinfo(1).
End of year reviews are showing up; probably more next week.
- Core Dump Central. Versions of rogue, plus online!
- Unboxing the best gift of 1983: the Commodore SX-64.
- Cabinet Magazine finally has an RSS feed.
- Digitizing 14,000 woodblocks, a webinar. (via)
- And here’s the woodblocks, free to download.
- Fictional videogame stills. (also via)
- Managing my personal server in 2020. Not BSD but much, maybe all of it, translates. (via sorry I lost track)
- Hopefully XScreenSaver can’t crash your car.
- The Complete History Of First-Person Shooters. Linked cause the author is someone I remember reading 20 years ago. (via)
- Séamas O’Reilly’s Bumper Comics Of The Year 2020 Extravaganza. That what used to just be Vertigo has shown up in many comics.(via)
- Systems with JT, “first impression reviews of amateur operating systems”. (via)
- Life at 50. Life the game.
Your unrelated video of the week: Throat Notes, from the same person who did Double King.
I am happy to be in the new year.
- Most important this week: Chatting About TLS and Orcs, an online NYCBUG speaker event with Michael W. Lucas. RSVP so you can see.
- On the way to the first thousand BSD-powered computers in the hardware database.
- BSD Games for Linux. (via)
- Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
- Starting with FreeBSD jails.
- A potted history of UNIX, just up to BSD. (via)
- The FreeBSD 92. Nakatomi Socrates BSD Easter Egg. Followup from last week’s link. (Thanks, D. Ebdrup.)
- The world’s chunkiest card reader.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/28.
- Use Android USB Tethering to Get Internet on FreeBSD. (via)
- It feels like the broad Unix API is being used less these days.
- A Big Sur look for WindowMaker on OpenBSD.
You can’t tell directly from the commit message, but committing to DragonFly may trigger a reminder to MFC, based on commit message content. This is thanks to Aaron LI. It’s little, but this sort of automation is a good idea.
This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of “project status report” items – normal reports, not end of year roundups, despite the date. Good reading if you aren’t familiar with the work involved, in any case.
Aaron LI’s added a pw-update.sh script to DragonFly, for use in automating group and user changes, especially as – someday – part of a binary upgrade.
So, if you find yourself in possession of an ADM-3A terminal, and want to attach it to a DragonFly machine, here is the /etc/ttys config (viewed on the ADM-3A itself of course) and the front switch settings that worked for me.
Remember, ^h deletes.
As in, right now, and online, so join in and say hi.
Thanks to liweitianux, the mirrors page on the DragonFly site has been updated. Check again to see if there’s a mirror near you, if you haven’t looked recently.
If you remember HAMMER1’s ability to create a volume that spanned multiple local disks, that capability’s been introduced to HAMMER2. Look at the commit message to see how it works so far.
Note that this is not multi-master replication.
I haven’t had many posts this past week because of a mix of work then holidays. but there’s always Lazy Reading.
- My favorite essays of life advice.
- Lode Runner.
- “just don’t use any non-essential cookies“
- Cemetery of Soviet computers. Gotta reinstall STALKER. (via)
- “Tell me you work in tech without telling me you work in tech.” (via)
- Social shell games.
- Web Conversation From the Other Side. Followup from last week.
- A Book Like Foo: Powerful Book Recommendations. (via)
- Smalltalk Zoo: Stories and simulations around the evolution of Smalltalk. (via)
- Christmas Demos.
- Repairing and bootstrapping an IBM 5170 PC/AT, part 1 and part 2.
- New Montague Portal novel: “Drinking Heavy Water”.
Lots of history this week.
- Nakatomi Socrates BSD.
- FreeBSD src now in git. (via)
- Perfecting hashing in NetBSD (2013) Video. (via)
- The original “Spacewar!” running on a virtual DEC PDP-1. Technically early BSD. (via)
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon G4 Running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. (via)
- Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship.
- Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/21.
- Youtube Install Video for MidnightBSD.
- Managing Jails with Ansible: A showcase for building a container infrastructure on FreeBSD. (via)
- LimeSuiteSDR is now ported to FreeBSD. (via)
- X86 bsd router suggestions.
There’s an Q&A session for this week’s BSD Now. I haven’t looked carefully enough to see if this is the last for the year, but there’s some fun what-are-you-running-at-home material in there.