ndis(4) is removed from DragonFly; it’s probably been years since it was applicable to any hardware. I don’t think it will affect anyone – but it’s an interesting tool from a historical perspective; for a while it was possible to use Windows XP drivers to create a BSD network driver, effectively.
Many, many times over the years I have tried answering problems with “… and maybe something’s wrong with the RAM?”, which is always possible but not always probable. For once, it’s really what happened in this story of strange HAMMER2 errors.
Mini-theme: maintenance.
- Rethinking Repair. (PDF, via)
- Maintenance and Care. Same topic, but with interesting pictures. (also via)
- Ise Jingu and the pyramid of enabling technologies. About process knowledge.
- AnyDice, dice probability calculator. (via)
- PAGNIs: Probably Are Gonna Need Its.
- 50 Years of Text Games: Intermission. A little behind-the-scenes.
- Ethernet network cables can go bad over time, with odd symptoms.
- The Age of Software: An introduction.
- New Old Game: Gravi-o-roids!
- Research First.
- Bonkers app compatibility work. (via)
- DMGPlus. Runs Doom?
- Hardware Memory Models.
I’m writing this on the road, so it’s a bit low on links. Sorry! I will have much more next week.
Here’s a link to a commit for dsynth that gives an idea of how huge a debug build of chromium can be.
This note from James Cook describes how to get Wireguard functioning on DragonFly; his linked patch is not necessary at this point since it’s been committed to dports – though not in the latest binaries.
Tonight, via Zoom: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Nelson H. F. Beebe posted links to two ACM articles; one about SSDs and the other about filesystem resilience. Matthew Dillon chimed in with his thoughts specifically on HAMMER2.
Thanks to yrabbit, there’s a full FPGA toolchain possible on DragonFly. It’s preliminary, but it works.
Mini-theme: music. Or at least, audio.
- A Definitive History of House. (via)
- BBC Micro/Acorn Playback. Audio tracks of cassette tape programs for that platform. (also via)
- Sequencer64. (via)
- d100 reasons your wizard had to drop out of academia.
- A Vim Guide For Veteran Users.
- Revisiting my emacs and Vim/nvi post.
- How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet.
- A Supercut of Supercuts. Long but good.
- RGBFAQ. How computer graphics has developed; recommended.
- Feed Us Weird Things: Artists On Their Favourite Squarepusher Music.
- Gaslighting Your Boss: Creative Experiments in Digital Sabotage.
- Those last 4 links: via.
- Drag and drop bashrc prompt generator. (via)
- Web 1.1: Building The New Old Web. (via)
- Big Blue’s big adventure [origins of the Thinkpad design]. (via)
- AT&T’s ’60s Modem That Won’t Die. (via)
- The parallel universe of FireWire hubs.
I’ll post a reminder for the NYCBUG event.
- July 7th: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. George has strong opinions; you should hear them.
- The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture. A summary from an author of the IEEE article I linked before.
- Introduction to ZFS Replication.
- Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/06/29.
- Any Marathon fans up in here?
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o4.
- PDF/ePub/Comics readers on BSD, a discussion.
- History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom.
I’m actually some days late in reporting this, but there’s a new full build of packages for DragonFly 6.0; it’s following the quarterly release schedule for ports, so 2021Q2 is the base.
This goes with the recent merges from -current into 6.0. Now is a good time to update your system completely, if you have not already.
This week’s BSD Now is tech-heavy, with rpg-cli to lighten the mood.
If you’ve got unshielded disk cables in a tiny PC, you can run the AHCI link a bit slower to better handle interference.
There are some fun diversions this week.
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- Redux 001: BuzzPhrasing.
- Modern Unix tools. (via)
- From the comments on the last source: xutil and Visidata.
- PNG and JPG explainers. (via)
- Clearly a mini VT100 is required for a mini PDP-8.
- A “life clock” that could outlive you thanks to solar power and e-ink.
- Wrist mounted cyberdeck with expansion modules. Really!
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1994: The Playground and 1995: Patchwork Girl.
- 100 walk cycles.
- Adding a ChaCha Cipher to Precursor’s TRNG. Followup.
- URLs: It’s complicated…
- ARTSEY, a one-hand keyboard. (via)
- Building telemetry for tea aka Tealemetry. (also via)
- Shaker Dice and Edge Labelings. Oddest dice ever.
Yes, I am clearing out all my open tabs from Solène this week.
- Introduction to IPFS, and OpenBSD 6.9 packages using IPFS.
- Semi-related: Synchronization files software.
- How to run a NixOS VM as an OpenBSD guest.
- How to install Gnome on OpenBSD.
- Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/06/21.
- TrueNAS Core 12 review. (via)
- Using the I2P network with OpenBSD and NixOS.
- Default community strings removed from snmp in OpenBSD.
- Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD – part 1 and part 2.
- Progress in support for the riscv64 platform. (OpenBSD)
- OPNsense 21.1.7 released.
- ProtoAppStore. Posted cause it should mention BSD ports.
- FreeBSD Performance Observability. (via)
No pun this time; the episode covers the title exactly – plus more recent headlines.