All over the map today.
- $3,200 per month for 5 megabytes of space: the first hard drives.
- csv,conf,v3, a cleverly named data conference. (via)
- Silicon Graphics’ IRIX and Magic Desktop return as Linux desktop. Nostalgia! (via)
- C64 Yourself. C64 palette applied to a picture. (via)
- Strategy headroom in roguelikes. (via)
- WiFi232 – An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer. (via)
- ESR Shares A Forgotten ‘Roots Of Open Source’ Moment From 1984.
- Plan9-9k: 64-bit Plan 9. (via)
- Leave Britney’s Command and Control Server Alone! Many places linked to this, but this is the best link text. (via)
- How Thou Canst Maketh a Fine Program in Fortran. (via)
- Best Board Games of Essen 2016. Complex games, too. (via)
- Warren Ellis’s podcast subscription list.
Unrelated link of the week: I Love Butter Tarts. If you’ve never encountered a butter tart, you should. Found via the Midland Butter Tart Festival, which I am disappointed to have missed.
Jordan Hubbard quotes Freenas / ixsysyems
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/moving-on-from-ixsystems-and-the-future-of-freenas-corral.52426/
Does anyone know WHY Hubbard quit?
Did you read the article? Career change.
It sounds like Jordan had an opportunity he just couldn’t pass up – and it was a good time to switch with the new FreeNAS product hitting release. So, yeah, normal career move.
Something that would be interesting is if the new product he’s working on, which he hinted was some sort of medical device, I think, ends up BSD-based.
Don’t medical devices need a realtime OS? Think pace marker like devices that need to guarantee no premeptive operations that could potentially cause the device to no send heart pulses.
Is there any bsd realtime OS?
No idea if he’s working with a medical device that requires that sort of operation, if that sort of operation is required, or even if he is for sure working with medical devices that could run a BSD.
Given how bad the only Freenas release under Jordan Hubbard was – gives indication as to why macOS is also in equally bad shape … just magnified by 10+ years when he lead macOS.
No new BSD news since 6/11 :(
Where’s Justin?