Category: UNIXish

A general roundup of things, this week.

• The 1978 Bell System Technical Journal, describing this new Unix thing.  (via)
• The book Modern Perl is out, written by chromatic.  I link to it for two reasons: the first is that while the book is available for purchase, it’s also available as a free download, with the only condition that you must tell others about it.  The second reason – and the reason I’d mention this book anyway – is that chromatic writes on his site and for O’Reilly, and his articles are succinct and enjoyable.  The Web is a deluge of text, so any author that can hold your attention, with all the other sources to read, is worth following.
• More NYCBSDCon 2010 stuff, from the comments on my previous post: Will Backman has partial audio recordings, and Jason Dixon’s adventure is online.  (thanks, Will and Lawrence)
• This summary of the (BSD-ish) Tarsnap service made me smile.
• Top 5 Best Practices for an Open Source Development Community.  (via)  I especially agree with items 2 and 3.
• Oddly compelling.  (via everywhere)

I think I’ve almost caught up on my backlog of Things To Post:

The March issue of the Open Source Business Resource is up, with the theme of “Mobile”.  The BeagleBoard and OpenBTS articles are going to appeal to some specific people.

More links from Dru Lavigne.

“It’s sinking in that Sun is gone“, the vi Complete Key Binding List, and Post-quantum cryptography, all ganked from Trivium.

Linkbloggy, briefly:

• A view of Bell Labs, where that other Unix flavor came from, in the 1960s.  (via)  Best sideburns ever.
• IRC, as explained by American prime time television.  (YouToooob, via)  Remember, #dragonflybsd is available on EFNet.
• Stallman, Torvalds, and Knuth walk into a bar… (via)

Not one, but two roguelike items!  Close your eyes and click randomly if you have no interest in my little obsession.

• The newest @Play column has more 7DRL coverage, with screenshots and nice little summaries that mention whether a game is fair or not.
• Also at GameSetWatch, mention of a new roguelike called MnemonicRL, with a video preview.  It’s planned to be a MMORPG, of all things.

This month’s @Play column dives into the playing mechanisms of  XRogue, an older roguelike variant with some interesting features.  Of special interest to geeks like me is the historical line drawn between XRogue features like charmed monsters and NetHack pets.