December 2023 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Here’s a weird confluence of things all based on me searching out links and stories for this blog: Based on the recommendation of Cooking Issues listeners, I visited Hi-Collar last weekend, a Japanese kissaten (which I know of because of Craig Mod’s mailing list / book) while I stayed at St. Marks’s Hotel, which I know about through NYCBSDCon. Meal was good, and all these things would not have come together without these years of Lazy Reading posts.

BSD on Windows. A product I never heard of. (via)
A List of Lists. I have linked to at least one of them before.
Children of the Geissler Tube. Seems like something to buy at United Nuclear. (via)
From a comment on last week’s Lazy Reading: CCC is coming up.
The original UNIX Lab had left-handed lightbulbs. Note the author of the post.
History of SMTP. (Video, via)
DateTime, an XKCD cartoon. Painfully accurate.
Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY. (via)
Ctrl+Alt Museum pictures.
Dungeons & Directories. (via)
Umberto Eco Formulates The AI Novel In 2011.
Apple ][ copy protection affecting how a game plays. A game world being affected by a physical aspect of a legal status in the real world.
Finishing Up a FreeBSD Experiment. I like seeing what people use. (via)
“the plural of regex is regrets“. (via)

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ChiBUG tomorrow

ChiBUG is meeting in the normal place ~~tomorrow~~ on the 19th. Go, if you are near. (Plans changed after I posted this.)

2023/12/102023/12/06

Lazy Reading for 2023/12/10

Old hardware – really old – minitheme.

ARCC tickets 30% off with code CH3AP.
Fun with DNS TXT Records. Password storage, bizarre but hilarious. (via)
The BSDCan 2024 page is up.
The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard. (via)
Decker, Hypercard clone that builds web pages. (via)
User Manual for Babbage’s Difference Engine #2. Which exists. And you can build it. Or 3D print it. (via)
Saturn V Apollo Flight Configuration. Poster to print. (via)
Fake mainframe, real lights and switches.
The strange world of Japan’s PC-98 computer. Linked cause I remember seeing “PC-98” in I think the FreeBSD installer. (via)

2023/12/052023/11/29

urtwn(4) update

If you have a TP-Link TL-WN722N v2 wireless adapter, you are in luck.

2023/12/032023/11/30

Lazy Reading for 2023/12/03

No theme other than maybe interesting hardware.

Four Kinds of Optimisation.
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font. I will always link Y2038 issues. (via)
Dragons Reviewed and Ranked.
MNT Reform hardware hacking. (via)
My Useful Shell Functions. (via)
B3ta’s 404 error pages.
The Spectrum of Openness. The first good multidimensional explanation I’ve seen.
WE 1981. For Western Electric employees, with a shot of a crane lowering a new central office unit into place. (via)
VT320 Repair. And terminal tetris. (via)
$500M Mars Rover Mistake. The value is the way they dealt with it. (via)