April 2015 – Page 2 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2015/04/122015/04/10

Lazy Reading for 2015/04/12

Without meaning to, I’ve broken into full-on computer nostalgia this week. Don’t know how it happened, but at least the links are interesting.

Tiling by squares. I hope you like math. (via)
“whatever it is, it’s already over“, which led me to “The planned unplanned outage“.
The NMFECC Cray Time-Sharing System (1985) [pdf] (via)
Programming Languages in 2014. (via)
A history of the Amiga – The demo scene (2013) (via) The links in the source article are best.
8088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators. (via)
BeOS Demo Video (1998) (via) I miss BeOS.
The Full History of Board Games. (via)
Turning the Arduino Uno into an Apple II. (via) Notes how awesome the 6502 processor was.
The Apple ][ Watch. Holy crap, this is cool. It wouldn’t be easy to duplicate, but so very worth doing. (via)
An object of infinite length but finite volume. (via)
Modern alternatives to PuTTY?
Dealing with key-based authentication on Windows with Putty
How the Computer Got Its Revenge on the Soviet Union. The source for this story has more interesting link material.
Can someone explain containers to me?
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2). “(I’m still holding out for a director’s cut of Iron Man where Tony Stark struggles for an hour to place a screen protector on his faceplate without trapping any dust under the plastic, but I’m not holding my breath.)“
What Part of “No, Totally” Don’t You Understand? For the readers that don’t have English as their first language. Or maybe those that do. (via)
The Task Continuity Model. Incidentally describes my method of building up articles for this very Digest. (via)

Your unrelated tea link of the week: The man who drank too much iced tea. He wasn’t drinking that much, which makes me a bit worried about my own hot tea consumption. (via)

Your unrelated psychedelic rock video of the week: Lightning Bolt’s The Metal East. If you find the art interesting, start looking for Fort Thunder comics. (via)

2015/04/112015/04/11

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/11

At the last minute, as usual.

Contributing to OpenBSD. “I spent two days hunting through Xenocara & graphics card driver code Finally found a good workaround: get a wife.” (via)
Invented by OpenBSD.
OpenBSD 5.7 highlights.
Raspberry Pi 2 support in NetBSD. (via)
AMD Catalyst might be coming to FreeBSD. Comments are more useful than the article, so I’m just linking to them.
FreeBSD and beadm.
The History (and Future) of FreeNAS & TrueNAS.
flashrd, for creating embeddable OpenBSD images. (via)
OpenBSD window manager discussion.
A bounty for OpenBSD/Xen.
A gdb script for printing routing tables on FreeBSD.
Bitrig and pkgsrc.
PDF presentations possible on PC-BSD.
PC-BSD now has a “ISCSI replication configuration wizard“.
NYCBUG has an OPNSense mirror available.

Lastly: nvi2, a multibyte folk of nvi, seen in multiple places. This may be good for every BSD to adopt. (every other BSD, I mean.)

2015/04/10

DragonFly on Vultr

There’s been some linking to the updated HAMMER2 design document. The Reddit link doesn’t have anything specific, but the Hacker News one has some details (including a credit code!) for installing DragonFly on a Vultr VPS.

2015/04/10

Mars time, too

Noticed in the most recent time zone data update for DragonFly: some people keep Mars time.

2015/04/10

ACPICA update for DragonFly

The most recent (well, this is the mostest recent) update of ACPICA for DragonFly, by Sascha Wildner, is different from the usual import: it happens to include actual upstream support for DragonFly

2015/04/09

BSDNow 084: pkg remove freebsd-update

This week’s BSDNow talks with Baptiste Daroussin about developing and using pkg, for ports and for packaging the base FreeBSD system. (Baptiste has been seen on #dragonflybsd, since pkg is on DragonFly, so I’m sure there’s some relevant bits there, too.) There’s also the usual news summary.

2015/04/062015/04/06

Hammer and Hammer2 details

I haven’t been drawing enough attention to it, but there’s been a bunch of HAMMER filesystem activity lately: First, Tomohiro Kusumi has been working on HAMMER – these posts are a small subset of his commits. Second, Matthew Dillon has been working full steam ahead on HAMMER2. The HAMMER2 design document has been updated (read this!), and he’s already accomplished master->slave disk syncing.

It’s not ready for production, of course, which you may already realize, so don’t install it unless you want to work on the code.

2015/04/052015/04/03

Lazy Reading for 2015/04/05

Happy Easter! It means chocolate for me.

Everything is Made up and the Points Don’t Matter. Substitute “open source work” for “design” in this story. (via)
The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty. Quoted from the article: They would roll their eyes a bit, then hasten to add, as more than one did, “But he’s right about most things.” (via)
COMPUTERS IN OUR LIVES.
Where we went wrong, or, The one thing Philip Greenspun got right (in 1997).
A Round Pie in a Square Box. I admit I read it at first just because it mentioned pie, but it is an interesting history. (via)
istruecryptauditedyet.com. (via)
How I doubled my Internet speed with OpenWRT. I shall now be annoying: Should have used pfSense, and it’s not a doubling of speed, it’s a doubling of capacity. Any connection on either link is still limited to the speed of that link. (via)
Oblique Strategies, the website. The Wikipedia entry on Oblique Strategies will tell you what that is, though I could have sworn I talked about it before. (via)
How a bad RJ45 termination can ruin a cable. First time I’ve seen a check other than “It lights up the tester; must be fine.” (via)
Some slick awk built-ins.
Origins of the tilde.
My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure. (via)
free-for-dev, a list of ‘as-a-service’ items offered free, for development or whatever. (via)
/dev/notrandom, an April Fools item I actually liked. (via)
MISTAKES WERE MADE: COMPUTER HISTORY, DECOMPILED. April 17th in NYC.
Vintage Computer Festival East, happening same day in New Jersey.
The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing. At Bard College now.
(Last 3 links all via SIGCIS, an excellent resource.)
Creating a BBS in 2015. (via)
Dueling Unixes and the Unix Wars [pdf]. (via)
Is BSD UNIX?

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Jason Shiga’s comics. It’s an article about the comics, not the comics themselves, so go to his site next. (via)

Also unrelated: tea is one of the topics I link here, and alert reader Jeff Ramnani pointed out Strand Tea as a good source. I also saw Deep Mills referenced in the UK. Anyone else have a favorite online vendor?

2015/04/042015/04/03

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/04

If you’re part of a BSD user group, please let me know your schedule. I’m able to catch NYCBUG announcements cause I’m on their announce@ mailing list – but I could use more.

DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/30.
Lumina 0.8.3 is released.
Building PC-BSD Utilities From Source. (video)
BSD Magazine for March.
Directly building FreeBSD AMI images.
FreeBSD daily status reports, a little more human-readable.
4 new commands in FreeBSD DDB.
The FreeBSD boot loader can now take your GELI passphrase.
A probably definitive answer on OpenBSD and clang.
pf tables mean no reloading.
BSD contributor Paul Schenkveld has died.
If you are in the UK, there’s a mini OpenBSD ports hackathon happening now.
NetBSD systems can now resize / on reboot, if space is available.
LibreSSL in pkgsrc, soon.
NYCBUG’s next meeting is April 8th, with Christos Zoulas presenting blacklistd.

2015/04/03

Info pages gone

Do you use info pages? Yeah, me neither. John Marino’s removed or converted the various info pages already in DragonFly, and removed texinfo since it’s no longer required. (I’ve linked to a few examples, but there were a number more commits than this.)

2015/04/022015/04/03

BSDNow 083: woN DSB

This week’s BSDNow has the usual roundup of news, including some… suspicious items, plus an interview of Kamila Soucková about conferences and Google Summer of Code. They note this Hammer2 proposal.

2015/04/012015/03/31

April Fools Day; disbelieve everything

Today’s the annual Bad Tech Joke, also known as April Fools Day. I don’t do those here, cause I think of them like this. This is your public service announcement to ignore most of what you read for the next 24 hours or so.