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Lazy Reading for 2016/02/28

UNIX tools are this week’s unintentional theme.

Your unrelated robot link of the week: Every new Boston Dynamics robot is creepier than the last.

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In Other BSDs for 2016/02/27

Look at the ZFS discussions if you want to feel smug as a BSD user.

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Default shells and library changes

I see this bite people irregularly over the years: if your default shell on login can’t run, what do you do?  I’ve seen it happen because of a missing /usr/lib, and it can happen with out-of-date library references, too.   There’s several different ways to deal with it:

That last one may be useful if your dports setup gets mangled, somehow – though ‘pkg upgrade’ has always worked for me.

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Lazy Reading for 2016/02/21

I earn the roguelike tag this week.

Your unrelated link of the week: The Voynich Manuscript and Codex Serahinianus, in PDF form.  Ignore the “never-cracked ancient mystery” bit about the Voynich Manuscript, but it’s still interesting to look at.

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In Other BSDs for 2016/02/20

Keep an eye out for BSD user group meetings in your area – just because I didn’t note it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

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Who still wants a shirt?

I have DragonFly shirts, helpfully printed up by Sepherosa Ziehau in China.  I have a list of people that are interested in shirts, most of whom remembered to give a shirt size.  I don’t have anyone’s email address or mailing address on that list.

If you are on that list, send me your mailing address.

The shirts are marked L/XL/XXL/XXXL, but they run smaller than U.S. versions of those sizes.  I usually find a U.S. XL shirt baggy, but “XXXL” is the one that fit me, for instance.  I’ll do my best to place the appropriate one.  This is just an advance apology, since it’s too late to change anything if it turns out tight.

I’ll mail these out as I have the spare cash and time on hand.  (I hope most of you live in the continental U.S.)

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Lazy Reading for 2016/02/14

Rapid topic shifts this week.

Your unrelated tea link of the week: Cuppa Thugs.

 

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In Other BSDs for 2016/02/13

Several book links this week.

Thing I should link more regularly: Garbage, a podcast that isn’t specifically about BSD but happens to cover it a lot.  I linked to it when it was starting, but didn’t catch new episodes (fixed by finding the RSS feed).  There’s been a bunch since then, so you have plenty of listening material now.

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Whole lotta reading

Rimvydas Jasinskas has consolidated/restored/updated a large number of papers into share/doc on DragonFly.  I’m not going to link to his large number of commits, but instead point you at the directory where they all went.  There’s a number of design documents in there that date back to 4.4BSD and beyond (and some much newer), which may interest or educate you.  Of special note: The Guide to the Dungeons of Doom, for rogue, or the KAME IPv6 implementation notes.