This week just sorta blew up with the links.
- as2914.net, visualization of the Internet, seen “from the as_path of 2914”. (via)
- The IPv4-pocolypse has started. (via)
- Make things astronautty. (via)
- Related: NASA Ames: This used to be the future. (via)
- Slack, the Ultimate Workday Distractor. Repent! Oh, wait, this is a different Slack.
- Endless Sky, a space exploration game similar to Escape Velocity. Cross-platform, so it miiiight work on BSD.
- Naev, a similar concept.
- “IT began with Ada – Women in Computer History 2 September 2015 – 10 July 2016“. You probably have to be in Europe (Paderborn) to catch this, but there’s lots of old computer hardware you can get close to. (via)
- Speaking of old (and expensive)… (via)
- Anderson.vim: Dark vim colorscheme based on colors from Wes Anderson films. That’s… specific. (via)
- A hardware flaw in a new Cisco switch. See first comment on the source page.
- When the Unix load average was added to Unix. (via)
- The history of Clarus the Dogcow. (via) I have a “bootleg”? Clarus shirt I picked up at… Macworld years and years ago. I’m sorta hipster-proud of it.
- Ted Unangst rants about compiler-inserted backdoors. Follow the links he helpfully supplied in an article update to show responses to his views. (Something more articles should have.)
- One Weird Old Productivity Tip.
- Cynical interpretations of various project milestones.
- How do you get network connectivity from the worst PC in the world? Ugh. I used one of those, once.
- Time Cube is gone, Thyme Cube is still alive. I’m… vaguely sad? that Time Cube doesn’t exist any longer. (verbatim via)
- Computer Science Courses that Don’t Exist, But Should. Some of these ideas are actually pretty good, not just humor. (via)
Your unrelated comics link of the week: Wonderella, a consistently funny superhero parody. As an added bonus, the author apparently can’t stop making (non-comic) one-liner jokes, so he stuffs them all in his Twitter feed instead of the usual case of Twitter as promotional tool.
It’s “Ada”, not “ADA”. Ada is the first name of Ms. Lovelace.
I copied and pasted the title from the person talking about it – though looking at the exhibition page, IT should be all caps instead. Fixed.
In fact, Endless Sky can be built under DragonFly BSD. Set several environment variables like CCVER, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS, install openal-soft and a few other ports, build libjpeg-turbo from sources and done!
I play this game now:) The only problem with the sound, but then I’m no expert.
What’s the problem – no sound at all? Does that computer have working audio normally?
If audio works in general, it might be that the game, or its sound library, needs to know the correct output channel.
If sound doesn’t work in general, the only answer I have is the basic one – kldload sound.ko, I think it is, and look at what .ko gets loaded.
I was wrong — there are sounds in the game, but there are only about 20, and these are mainly the sounds of battle. There is no background music, so I could not hear anything at the beginning of the story :)