Nan Xiao needed a taskset tool on DragonFly, so he made one. It’s apparently similar to usched(8).
This slipped in just before the 5.6 release, and I thought I had already noted it: DragonFly now defaults to HAMMER2 for disks during install, instead of HAMMER1.
If you want to see all running threads on your system, grouped by process, with who ran it and how much memory it’s taking, it’s easy: ps -alxRH.
I mention this because it’s easier to remember ‘alxRH’ than it is to find all the right options in the ps man page.
I get indirectly cranky, this week.
- Dungeon Generation in Diablo 1. Roguelike! (via)
- Pressing Forward. “The grassroots mechanical keyboard scene”. I did not know about the Hall Effect, or the X1 keyboard, both of which are interesting.
- sc-im, a terminal spreadsheet. Like Visicalc all over again!
- Design tools are holding us back. I like the note on how toolschains are becoming too ultra-specific. (via)
- The Internet and My 53 Years Online.
- Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it.
- Secretly Public Domain. This means there’s now a huge amount of books, free to read, that couldn’t be reliably identified before.
- The Builder’s Remorse. “once it was handed over to the corporation, everyone lost control”. Collectively no-one’s fault.
- Size and the Inert Sandbox. About Frontier: Elite.
- Tabletop Whale. “An original science illustration blog”. (via)
- The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction and Make Them Want. Delay. Fulfill. Repeat. Video games, in an experience I bet we all share.
All over the map this week.
- Broken ports? (OpenBSD games)
- Realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization.
- What’s the point of the Single UNIX Specification?
- Resuming ZFS send.
- A Chapter from the FBI’s History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln. (via).
- OpenBSD and NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2019 Nagoya. (via)
- Valuable News – 2019/07/22.
- NetBSD audio – an application perspective. (via)
- Project Trident STABLE-12 Now Available. (via)
- A week of pkgsrc #13.
- OPNsense 19.7.1 released.
- New FreeNAS Mini Entry-Level & High-End Models Unveiled by iXsystems.
- Bill Joy interview, 1984. I once heard him described as a flat-food person. (PDF, via)
Francois Tigeot has updated the radeon driver in DragonFly to match what’s in Linux kernel 3.19.8. No, wait, I took too long to post this cause there’s been so many things, so now it’s up to 4.4.180.
This week’s BSD Now talks about using a Mumble server on OpenBSD, along with a nice range of other topics.
There’s now a read-only sysctl ‘jail.jailed’ that can be checked to see if the current environment is running within a jail; useful for scripts that should not run in that environment, etc. I link to it mostly because it’s an odd sort of meta-signifier of reality, like being awake or in a waking dream, and that entertains me.
Aaron LI’s fixed a bug in rconfig tag names. This is minor, but I think rconfig(8) is a very powerful and underappreciated utility, so I point it out whenever possible.
I’ve mentioned dbus and DragonFly a few times; here’s one of those “you will eventually do this” tidbits: if for some reason you are installing it for the first time, remember to start it with the rc script.
Accidental theme: heavy metal.
- A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database. Found while researching tz formats.
- Buster Keaton: slapstick anarchism. A continuation of an article I linked before.
- An Illustrated history of Easter Eggs. Delightful! (video, via)
- crontab converter for different time zones in unix?
- lowRISC has open source-related job openings.
- History and effective use of Vim. (via)
- Apollo Guidance Computer: Dipstiks and reverse engineering the core rope simulator.
- Elements of Programming is now free. (via)
- deconstruct files. An excellent deep dive, from the deconstruct 2019 conference, for which there’s a summary.
- Our switches can wind up in weird states after a power failure. Linked cause I experienced this over a miles-spanning network, over and underground.
- “This week I was forced to accept that XMPP and IRC are both goners.“
- The history of headbanging: “Heavy Metal.” Not enough music links, but it did lead me to the best version of War Pigs I’ve ever heard. (via)
- You don’t need to know… A familiar screen.
- Local 1Password iOS Vaults No Longer Free. The important part is the last quote. (via)
Your unrelated music link of the week: Grando by OHMYGOD.
And overflow continues! I am secretly pleased.
- Nginx and acme-client on OpenBSD.
- random ip id comments. Linked cause OpenBSD and DragonFly are specially noted for IP ID handling.
- DTracing PostGres. (via).
- What is the overarching philosophy of BSD that defines the OS family?
OpenBSD::Unveil(3p)added to -current. I like this sort of external support.- NeXT Software and Peripherals catalog Fall 1989. (via)
- ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size. Will this affect ZFS on BSD? Dunno.
- Valuable News – 2019/07/15.
- A Tale of Two Spellcheckers. A PkgSrcCon 2019 talk. (via)
- GUIX and FreeBSD(AnyBSD) ?
- Want to learn more about BSD.
- FreeBSD.org outgoing mail system changes.
- FreeBSD Journal: FreeBSD for Makers.
- OPNsense 19.7 “Jazzy Jaguar” released.
- Seattle Gelato Meetup, 1 August 2019.
- “Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review.
Thanks to Aaron LI, st (“suckless terminal” I assume) is supported in termcap in DragonFly.
BSD Now 307 accomplishes another trifecta week, mentioning Free, Net, and Open, and also mentioning that vBSDCon’s call for papers closes tomorrow – I’m mentioning it now cause it’ll be too late to mention for In Other BSDs this weekend.
If you are running an em(4) or igb(4) device in DragonFly, Sepherosa Ziehau has updated the drivers. This brings it to Intel driver versions em-7.7.4 and igb-2.5.6.
Hopefully I am not too late posting this: SEMIBUG meets tonight, and the presentation is Eddie Thieda, talking about OpenBSD on the desktop.
DragonFly’s tcp keepalive was changed from milliseconds to seconds. This happened in both DragonFly-current and in the 5.6 release, and it changes the networking API, which means a dports rebuild is needed… or a pkg upgrade, for which happily all packages have been rebuilt. So, on your next update of the system, be sure to update packages too.
Who can recommend a dynamic DNS service? (I’d like to know from direct experience, not Googling.) I’ve been using Dyn for years, but they’ve been unintelligibly merged into the Oracle behemoth, and I need to change.
- Paper Books Can’t Be Shut Off from Afar. (via)
- Trajectories for the future of software. (also via)
- Chain Letter Evolution. (via)
- The PDP-7 Where Unix Began. (via)
- Decoded: Rogue. This is strangely … readable? (via)
- fern: a curses-based mastodon client. (via)
- ARPANET, Part 1: The Inception, ARPANET, Part 2: The Packet, and ARPANET, Part 3: The Subnet. Another very readable article. (via)
- A generation of hip-hop was given away for free. Can it be archived? (via)
- Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash. More important, that’s the only AGC in the world.
- Dwarf Fortress Diary: The Basement Of Curiosity Episode Eighteen – Drubbings In The Deep.
Done early, for once! I managed to complete this by Thursday night.
- LLDB: watchpoints, XSTATE in ptrace() and core dumps.
- OpenBSD Community goes Platinum for 2019!
- Streaming to Twitch using OpenBSD.
- High quality / low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD.
- OPNsense 19.1.10 released, and then OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released.
- vBSDCon’s Call for Papers is out. (via)
- What to try first, of Michael W. Lucas’s BSD and non-BSD books?
- Project Trident 19.06 Available. (via)
- FreeBSD 11.3 released.
- July 10 Plugins Update.
- fixing telnet fixes.
aggr(4)driver added to -current. I read it as aggro, can’t help it.- Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool. (via)
- FreeBSD security issues in DragonflyBSD perspective.
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q2 release. (via)
- Valuable News – 2019/07/08.
- Implementation of DRM ioctl Support for NetBSD kernel.
- Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
- Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd. (via)
This could be an In Other BSDs item, but it’s worth highlighting: saugns is a “Scriptable AUdio GeNeration System”; a utility for generating sounds – specifically FM modulation, in a way that will make you think “synthesizers!” There’s a whole language behind it, and the program, as the author, Joel K Pettersson, points out, compiles with no trouble on every BSD.