There’s certainly no theme to this week’s links.  I even manage to avoid my usual git and vim links, strangely.

• Ethernet’s Future: How Fast Is Fast Enough?  The article doesn’t answer any questions, but I like the IEEE-supplied graph it opens with that shows the trend of overall network traffic doubling yearly.  (via)
• Anti-open source propaganda in Disney kids’ TV show.  I’m actually more bothered by trying to hyphenate a phrase made from separate words.  Anti-‘open source’?  Esoteric grammar issues appeal to me.
• Bash One-liners Explained, part 3.
• Perl hex and bit pack formats were added to fix the Magellan satellite’s output.  A neat origin for something I’ve used trivally.  Of course, I suppose any use is trivial compared to fixing output from a broken spaceship.  (via many places)
• Here’s a DragonFlyBSD article from 2010 linked on Hacker News.  The ensuing conversation in the Hacker News comments is lucid and useful, and not a single bit of whining about BSD being dead.  That’s so refreshing to see!
• Looks like there will be a new version of ADOM.  Will it run on DragonFly?  It should, since the previous version is in pkgsrc.
• Do you like set theory?  Then read this.  I don’t understand a word of it, but I like seeing the mathematical characters encoded on the page, apparently using MathJax.
• I also enjoy reading about BSD users’ origin stories.  In this case, Dru Lavigne.
• CDE has been open-sourced.  There’s a good chance it will show up in pkgsrc soon.  Seeing this interface will make you nostalgic if you are the right age.
• If you’re a fan of the Hammer filesystem, does that make you a hammerhead?  That’s my weak attempt to segue to this comic.
• Artisanal, hand-crafted unsigned ints.  Read the bottom of the About page for an explanation.  This may not make sense to you if you haven’t encountered the trend it’s making fun of, which seems to be centered in Brooklyn.  (via)
• I hope you enjoy scrolling, because this history of computers and history of computer graphics are very long single documents.  I like seeing the early computer art.  (via)

Your unrelated comic link of the week: Cul De Sac.   The strip is ending due to the creator’s health issues, but what he has done is marvelous.  This is one of the few newspaper strips that is both visually interesting and often abruptly laugh out loud funny, without being patronizing.