Category: BSD

No theme this week.

• All the Nerds Are Dead.  “But maybe the most characteristic feature of nerd culture is its total lack of irony.”  (via)
• Hidden BeOS installs.
• A bit of Unix history on ‘su -‘.
• Letters to ed(1) is on sale.
• And the source, the FreeBSD Journal, has a new issue out.
• pkg_*: the road forward.  OpenBSD pkg.
• Lessons Learned from Sendmail.  (via)
• Using FreeBSD’s daemon(8)? Consider -r.
• How to install Kanboard on OpenBSD.
• Fake Nixie tubes with a bootup screen.
• Wayland on OpenBSD.  (via)

History mini-theme.

• The Secret History of Mac Gaming, a book.  Found in a picture of someone’s workspace, linked to by Naive Weekly,
• Andrex x Eno.  The base of the joke.
• An Adventure walkthrough.
• Forced email triage.  (via)
• Pull in satellite images, right from the satellites.  (via)
• “CRT Inspired“.
• The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird.  (via)
• AppleII-VGA: VGA card for Apple II+/IIe computer.  (via)
• how (not) to write a pipeline.  “I don’t see a lot of error handling.”   (via)
• OpenBSD pfsync(4) is rewritten and softdeps are out.
• Limited Audience Jokes.  (via)

A little short today but still good links.

• The Blit was also the Jerq, thanks to LucasArts, and chunks of it still exist in Plan 9.  That sentence may be confusing but follow the links.
• Control, Escape, and Meta Tricks.  (via)
• Also, yay, 200 issues of Nixers!
• pkgsrc-2023Q2 is out.  The 79th!
• HUDs and GUIs.  (via)
• CoBUG (Colorado BSD user group) is starting the mailing list back up.
• Naked Domains.  If you like large scale stats, today is your lucky day.

Still working through a lot of open tabs.

• ChiBUG meets on the 20th.  I’ll post a reminder.
• What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band Says About You. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3).   “Jethro Tull: You have a favorite rune.”  Odd short story: Ian Anderson called my house looking for someone.  (via)
• Sprite drawing sheets for Street Fighter 2.  (via)
• infrastructure that looks like sci fi.  (also via)
• Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD.  (via)
• Running Apple 1 software on a breadboard computer (Wozmon)  (via)
• Capacitor reforming.
• Tech debt metaphor maximalism.
• Manual of Fear and Death.  Linked for the images.

Your unrelated music of the week: Buck 65, an “uptempo rewind to the Golden Age of hip hop”.  (via)

 

Smushing BSD and Lazy Reading links together into one, again.  Tell me if that’s good or bad from where you’re standing.

• How To Survive, computing safely while on the road, from CCC 2019.  (via)
• Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s.  The sorts of images I love.  (via)
• degreeless.design.  Some excellent, excellent books listed.  (via)
• My Top 10 Favorite D&D Monsters, part one and part two, and Magic Items, part one and part two.
• Emulating the Casio Loopy with Phil Bennett.  (via)
• Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names.  “Oops.”  (via)
• Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices.
• Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD.
• cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps.
• Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework – part 4: Jails (II).
• Michael W Lucas on BSDNow.
• Beepberry.
• Hand 386 Delivers A “True 386 Processor” in a Handheld.  (via)
• Christopher Strachey and the Dawn of Interactive Text.  Before program storage, even.

Your unrelated music of the week: DRASS – see it, say it, slaughtered.  Another band name for Shardcore, which I have linked before.  AI generated visuals if you can’t tell.