Conventions – Page 19 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2013/08/13

vBSDCon registration open

Registration is open for vBSDCon, happening in Dulles, Virginia, USA, on October 25th through 27th. There’s some neat-sounding presentations listed.

I think that is the same location where I went to a rather spectacular pre-dotcom-crash presentation from Time Warner/Road Runner back in 1999. The hotel was great; the presenters were befuddled. An internal account manager ran up a $3,000 bar tab in one night on a company credit card… I still have the fancy Guinness glass he bought me. I don’t think this convention will work exactly the same way, but unlike my 1999 trip, the speakers at this one will actually know what they are talking about.

2013/08/12

DNSSEC talk, recorded

If you missed Michael W. Lucas’s talk about DNSSEC, it’s recorded and available on Youtube. Or buy his book.

2013/08/102013/08/06

Live DNSSEC talk happening now

Or at least scheduled to happen now, since I’m posting this and postdating it for everyone as a reminder. I hope I have the time right.

2013/08/06

Live DNSSEC talk

On August 10th, Michael W. Lucas will be giving a talk on DNSSEC to the Metro Detroit Linux Users Group, and it’ll be livestreamed for everyone to see. His talks are energetic and entertaining, and it’s worth making time to see.

2013/08/032013/07/31

In Other BSDs for 2013/08/03

How many tags can I fit on this post? I think I’ll aim for Saturday for these BSD catchup posts. In theory, I can prep this and the Sunday Lazy Reading posts ahead of time, since they tend to be all-week items, and have the whole weekend covered.

BeagleBone systems are getting popular.
Distributed chrooted pkgsrc bulk builds. Very necessary documentation.
…And a script to do all the setup for those builds.
The VBSDCon site has more details on the upcoming convention. (via)
The cxgbe(4) device has hardware dedicated to sniffing packets?
FreeBSD has switched to the BSD-licensed version of patch.
FreeBSD has an updated ACPI implementation.
FreeBSD is importing OpenBSD’s rsu(4) wireless Realtek driver. Needs firmware.
What’s new in pkgsrc-2013Q2. With screenshots!
NetBSD now supports 2 new Centrino Wireless-N devices.
NetBSD now has BIND 9.9.3-p2
PHP 5.5 has hit pkgsrc.

2013/07/24

Coming up: OHM2013

The Observe, Hack, Make 2013 festival is coming up at the end of the month in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, it’s already sold out, but there’s going to be at least one DragonFly developer there. (credit to Matthias Schmidt for letting me know about the festival)

2013/07/11

BSDTalk 228: Michael W. Lucas

BSDTalk 228 has a nearly half-hour chat with Michael W. Lucas at BSDCan 2013.

2013/06/11

BSDCan 2013 videos

FreeBSDNews.net has a nice summary up of video from all (?) the presentations at BSDCan 2013. Of particular interest to DragonFly users: a video about pkg, the tool used for package maintenance in dports. In this presentation, it’s talking about use on FreeBSD, but the future stuff applies to DragonFly too.

2013/05/272013/05/26

BSDTalk 227: Matt Ahrens and ZFS

There’s a new BSDTalk by way of the recently-completed BSDCan 2013 event, and it’s half an hour of talk with Matt Ahrens about ZFS and matters related.

2013/05/182013/05/17

vBSDCon website up

vBSDCon, the newest BSD conference, happening in October and in Virginia, has a new website. (via)

2013/05/182013/05/18

BSDCan 2013: more BSDTalk, more streaming

There’s another BSDTalk episode up already, because Will Backman’s at BSDCan 2013 and talking to Scott Long, Alistair Crooks, and David Discher, about NetFlix. Apparently there’s streaming video available now from the convention, and some people’s presentation slides have shown up.

2013/05/172013/05/17

BSDTalk 225: Kris Moore and PC-BSD

BSDTalk 225 has 12 minutes of conversation with Kris Moore about PC-BSD, recorded at BSDCan 2013, which is going on right now.

2013/04/19

Lounging around documentation

BSDCan 2013, which is happening in a few weeks, is going to have a “Documentation Lounge“, which is essentially a docs sprint, but with a much more relaxed-sounding name. Anyway, it’s a good thing to contribute to.

2013/04/17

New conference: vBSDCon

This is interesting: Verisign is sponsoring a new BSD convention (PDF link) in October, in Dulles, Virginia, USA. Apparently the use of BSD systems at the company is increasing, and they want to host something for it. The pkgNG presentation may be very interesting for DragonFly users. See the announcement. A new convention to support increased BSD uptake is really a nice surprise.

2013/04/15

International Space Apps Challenge this weekend

NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge is this weekend, 4/20/2013. Fancy as it sounds, it’s really a single-day hackathon around open software and hardware, with the problems to fix coming from NASA and therefore probably very unique. It’s happening in a bunch of places around the world, but there’s one right here in my town.

2013/03/28

Cons and more cons

EuroBSDCon 2013 is being held in Malta at the end of September, and the Call for Papers has just gone out. BSDCan 2013, which is the tenth BSDCan (!) and happening in May, just opened up registration. Same for PGCon.

2013/03/09

What’s happening at pkgsrcCon 2013

The 2013 version of pkgsrcCon is happening in a few weeks in Berlin, Germany. As announced, the presentation list is up. If you can’t make it to Berlin, there will potentially be video recordings of the event.

2013/03/07

Early morning distraction

Perhaps it’s not early morning where you are, but: if you go to Google’s 2013 Google I/O site, clicking on the I and O in particular patterns take you to various easter eggs. (see after break for spoilers).

Continue reading “Early morning distraction”

2013/03/05

The simplest web server

Found by way of a NYCBUG newsletter: sws, a webserver written in sh. Brett Wynkoop is the author, and as he points out, sws works on any platform with “/bin/sh, dirname, cat, and date”. The author’s giving a talk at an upcoming NYCBUG meeting – tomorrow!

2013/02/06

FOSDEM slides

Remember I mentioned FOSDEM a few days ago? The X.Org presentation slides are up, and the mostly-about-BSD “The future of X.org on non-Linux systems” presentation slides are included.