This special episode of BSD Now has an interview with Warren Toomey. I just happened to sign up for the TUHS mailing list and let me tell you, there’s some history being reported there by the people that lived it.
“New commandline tools” is the mini-theme.
- UML: My Part in its Downfall.
- BSing at 300 Bits Per Second.
- The top 10 things about blog and IT you should know. Clever.
- Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk. (via)
- VSIG Lecture on the Public Packet Infrastructure. (via)
- Software engineering practices.
- Open Book Abridged.
- The appeal of small computers. (via)
- Projecting Parallels in Archi Comics.
- Awesome Terminals.
- Nerd Fonts. Common terminal fonts with added image glyphs.
- Oh My Posh, prompt configs for any shell.
- Modern UNIX.
Your unrelated video of the week: Bollards. SheepFilms are fun. Also: Potato House.
No theme this week for the BSD section.
- Fiber + Static IP = Self-Hosting Glory! Sounds suspiciously like my ISP.
- OpenBSD: Manage DNS, DNSSEC (to automate TLSA records). (via)
- Red Hat OpenShift versus FreeBSD Jails. (via)
- Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux ip(8) Correctly Works. (via)
- Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest. (via)
- OpenBSD.app – quick full-text searching of OpenBSD packages for -stable and -current. (via)
- bsddialog 0.4 and LGPL-Free bsdinstall.
- Meet the 2022 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students: Koichi Imai, Christos Margiolis, and Jake Freeland.
- SCALE19X Conference Report.
- HardenedBSD September 2022 Status Report.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 3.
- Valuable News – 2022/10/03.
The first link and the title for this week’s BSD Now doesn’t have anything to do with BSD as far as I know, but I think it’s funny.
The social meeting for NYCBUG is tonight, at Torch & Crown Brewing. Go, if you are near.
- My Top 10 Favorite Imaginary Settings (Part I) and Part 2.
- On the strange joys of mainframe OSes and legacy tech that has survived into modern times. (via)
- The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of. I have one of these.
- the nevada national security site pt 4.
- Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers, follow-up.
- Stupid Shit No One Needs And Terrible Ideas Hackathon Toronto. MMOPong, for instance. (via)
- A short history of the drum machine. (via)
- So when did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
- The Best Command-Line-Only Video Games. Kinda a listicle and no BSD-specific checks, I know. (via)
- Plan9port, cause of something I read.
- Oral Histories of Museum Computing. (via)
- Next NYCBUG social gathering is this Wednesday.
- Ultima Online’s 25th anniversary. Linked here cause it works on OpenBSD without Wine, according to the comment. (via)
- Announcing the pkgsrc 2022Q3 branch.
- How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie.
- A DMD 5620 Terminal Emulator. This is a terminal I’ve never seen before.
- EuroBSDCon 2022, my first BSD conference (and how they are different).
- EuroBSDCon 2022.
- EuroBSDCon 2022.
- The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather[sic] is like.
- Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use.
- Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails.
- Toolchains Adventures Q3 2022.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/26.
- How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update.
BSD Now this week is titled ‘EuroBSDCon’, but as far as I know they weren’t there – haven’t listened to the episode yet. Any readers here go?
3 months until Christmas!
- Building the future of the command line.
- Working Offgrid Efficiently.
- Alternatives to Bloatware, found in the previous link.
- Ranking Vance’s SF and Fantasy Novels.
- The VCF East Swap Meet is coming up.
- Computing’s Woodstock. People in 1976 talking about their projects for the first time, like ENIAC and Colossus, no biggie. (via)
- Espresso machine historic gallery. (via)
- Atari 2600 joystick port history.
- The Prelinger Archives. Hours of ephemeral video.
- Running PalmOS without PalmOS. (via)
- The phrase “open source” (still) matters.
- Because We Still Have Net 1.0.
- Authenticated SMTP and IMAP authentication attacks and attempts we see here.
- I don’t know how to solve prompt injection and You can’t solve AI security problems with more AI.
- The Quintessential Dungeon. (via)
Check the first link; it’s time-dependent.
- Happening tomorrow: Peter Hansteen presents to SEMIBUG about pf. It’s online and he’s certainly an authoritative speaker.
- Desktop-installer: Use your Cleverness for Creativity. Note there’s multiple tabs within this writeup. (via)
- A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD.
- Open Source in Enterprise Environments – Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?
- FreeBSD Cope with WiFi Fuckup.
- AsiaBSDCon 2023 is happening. (via)
- Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures using Binary Ninja. (via)
- Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation.
- How to Setup Apache/FCGID on NetBSD 9.3.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/19.
- “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” draft done!
This week’s BSD Now is the normal roundup of stories. I won’t point you at anything specific; it’s all good.
In-person. Though it might be canceled; I am preposting this and it hasn’t been settled as of right now. Go, if you are near Chicago and it happens.
Oddities this week.
- Text-to-image for my inbox. Random subjects into pictures.
- How we monitor the temperature of our machine rooms. Linked for the reminder I need to look at that hardware.
- Bootstrapping the Old fashioned Way. So… painful!
- The Open Source Rotary Cell Phone, 2 years later. Surely I linked it before.
- A retro style online SSH client to play Nethack. (via)
- Connectix Quickcam, the first webcam. Designed by a studio in Schenectady, NY, which I happened to visit just after the product release.
- The Nevada National Security Site. Here’s part 2 and part 3.
- Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3.
- XScreenSaver 6.05 out now.
I got subscribed to the UNIX Heritage Society mailing list and it’s already turned up some good stories.
ps(1)gains support for tree-like display of processes. OpenBSD, though it would be useful everywhere, hint, hint.rcctl(8)gains a “configtest” action.- Portable OpenSSH commits now SSH-signed.
- Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD.
- “interesting old-timey UNIXes” – I do not know where these intersect with the more well known branches of the family tree.
- Time overflows have always been with us.
- A fresh look at FreeBSD. (via)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy. By Rob Pike. Note the timestamp, for 2 reasons.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/12.
- Installing BSD on an older Dell Laptop: having some issues.
- -current has moved to 7.2. OpenBSD.
- rpki-client 8.0 released.
- ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 20th.
If you are using urtwn(4) for your USB network connection, it now supports the Edimax EW-7811Un chipset? model?.
This week’s BSD Now has two things I want to highlight – articles on Linux ABI and on dma. You’ll just have to click through.
No default theme this week.
- The Codeless Code, coding koans.
- The Black Beast cyberdeck.
- The World of TSRan.
- THE SYNTHESIZER’S GREATEST HITS – A1 POSTER. (via)
- Campaign Cartographer 3. Software for making fake maps. (via)
- The Sender Policy Framework. Ranks up there with IPSec as possibly designed to make things worse, not better.
- The Things Spammers Believe – A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends.
- The Eternal Paradox.
- Pope Fibonacci.
- Roguelike Celebration 2022 speaker list, plus preview today.
- Syntactics Crystalwriter.
- Circuit Simulator. (via)
- Enlightenment 2.0.
Yay, another week that overflowed with links!
- Creating a wireguard connection between my home and colo.
- How I configure dma for mail delivery in jails on my internet hosts.
- “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Status Report.
- New FreeBSD Quick Guide: Video Playback on FreeBSD.
- Support for ‘kill -SIGNAME …’ was added in 4BSD.
- 3D printed FreeBSD desk toys.
- Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud.
- “Return of the Emperor” – text-based game.
- Best laptop for OpenBSD? From the comments: jcs.org’s list.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/05.
- g2k22 Hackathon Report: Martijn van Duren on
snmpd(8)improvements. - OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland mappings.
If you’re moving your dsynth build to a different machine, there’s now a ‘list-system’ directive that lets you recreate the same setup in a new place.
This week’s BSD Now includes a link to depenguin.me, a way to install BSD using a rescue boot environment, which is going to come in handy for someone reading this. I know I’ve linked to it before.