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Scroll down to contentPostsPosted on 2022/05/06BSD Now 453: TwinCat/BSD HypervisorThis week’s BSD Now, which I almost missed, covered one of the rarely-mentioned BSD Variants, TwinCat.0 Comments - Categories: BSD, Periodicals Posted on 2022/05/032022/05/03Guessing future goalsI think I know what Aaron Li might want to work on for DragonFly…(I am only guessing; I have not asked.)0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly Posted on 2022/05/012022/04/28Lazy Reading for 2022/05/01Whee!Snd: A library of free UX sounds.  A nice interface too.  (via)Vim Tada – a simple todo manager for vim.  (via)Taskwarrior, a commandline todo app.  (via comments on previous)Art Bits from HyperCard, meaning early Susan Kare art.  (via)Area Ware, linked because they sell Susan Kare material.Patching an Embedded OS from 1996 with Ghidra.  A synth!  (via)Anonymous Animal.  (via)Comptometer.  What it actually does isn’t important.GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery.  (via)Roguelike Celebration returns for 2022.Lost Women of Science, a podcast.  (via)You don’t have to clap.0 Comments - Categories: Lazy Reading, roguelike Posted on 2022/04/302022/04/27In Other BSDs for 2022/04/30How-to week rather than updates week.Let’s install OpenBSD/riscv64 on QEMU.  (via)How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.iblock: block scanner TCP connections under OpenBSD.  (via)I was able to build Overgrowth on NetBSD.KDE-FreeBSD CI.LibreSSL 3.5.2 released.Valuable News – 2022/04/25.OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse.  (via)Playing the game Bottomless on OpenBSD.  (via)I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD.  (via)New Board Member Interview: Cat Allman.  The last name should seem familiar.Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS: Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS.2 Comments - Categories: BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD Posted on 2022/04/28BSD Now 452: The unknown hackersThis week’s BSD Now starts off talking about recently-deceased and somewhat legendary Bill Jolitz.  He is to me the source of the term “flat food person“.0 Comments - Categories: BSD, Periodicals Posted on 2022/04/282022/04/13ChiBUG meeting tomorrowRSVP if you are near Chicago and can go.0 Comments - Categories: BSD, BUG Posted on 2022/04/26DragonFly and bhyveIf you want to run DragonFly as a bhyve guest using UEFI, here’s the recipe.0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on Posted on 2022/04/242022/04/21Lazy Reading for 2022/04/24Old-school week, at least more than normal.Principia Apocrypha: Principles of Old School RPGs.Now that computers have more than 4MB of memory, can we get seconds on the taskbar?Obsidian.md.  (via)waxy.org turns 20.MNT Reform, an ARM laptop with open hardware.  (via)Those HTML Attributes You Never Use.  (via)Minskytron Refurbished.Inside the Apple-1’s shift-register memory.  Photos!“Let’s go find out!“Dreamhold, an introduction to interactive fiction.  (via)The Early History of Smalltalk (1993).  The corporate shell of Xerox, where Smalltalk and PARC came from, is just a few miles from me.  (via)2 Comments - Categories: Lazy Reading Posted on 2022/04/232022/04/21In Other BSDs for 2022/04/23A bunch of releases this week.OpenBGPD 7.3 released.tcsh vi mode cursor shapes.sometimes the knote comes early.The Zephyrus G14 is not a MacBook Pro 14, and Sundry Observations and Insights…two and a half bad bits.OpenBSD Gaming Updates Q2 2022.Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs NixOS.Valuable News – 2022/04/19.MidnightBSD 2.1.7 RELEASE.  (via)FreeBSD 13.1-RC4 is out.OpenBSD 7.1 released.OpenBSD Webzine #9 is out.Interacting with FreeBSD: Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell.  FreeBSD 14 is switching default root shell, apparently.1 Comment - Categories: BSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD Posted on 2022/04/21BSD Now 451: Tuning ZFS recordsizeIt’s almost all ZFS tidbits this week for BSD Now.0 Comments - Categories: BSD, Periodicals Posted on 2022/04/192022/04/19Me, talking nowI’m on at SEMIBUG’s meeting right now.I hope to have a recording to post later.  Nnnnope!  A lesson for you and me both; test recording before an actual event starts.1 Comment - Categories: About This Site, BSD, BUG, Goings-on Posted on 2022/04/182022/04/18Me at SEMIBUGI’m talking about DragonFly at SEMIBUG’s online meeting (using Jitsi) tomorrow.UPDATE: https://meet.jit.si/SEMI-BUGDragonFlyBSD is the Jitsi link.  It’ll be 7 PM Eastern time.1 Comment - Categories: BSD, BUG, DragonFly Posted on 2022/04/172022/04/13Lazy Reading for 2022/04/17The music edge cases story is great.Revisiting the INMOS Transputer.  (via)Replicate Filesystem with Rsync.Spammers in the Public Cloud, Protected by SPF.Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music.  (via)Tonight we’re gonna log on like it’s 1979 (Telenet, Dialcom and The Source).Reverse-engineering a mysterious Univac computer board.  Great photos.Six One Sentence Monsters and Six More One Sentence Monsters.A Web Around the World, Part 7: Computers On the Wire.  I may have missed some recent parts of this.Puzzle dossiers and boxes, 2022.Old School Essentials, classic D&D revisited.  (via)Tetrageddon.  (via)Library of Short Stories.  (also via)Storytelling.  Early sequential art.1 Comment - Categories: Lazy Reading Posted on 2022/04/162022/04/14In Other BSDs for 2022/04/16Note the upcoming presentations…Nixers #138.Writing a device driver for Unix V6.  (via)ChiBUG’s meeting April 29th in person.  RSVP if you are coming.SEMIBUG’s meeting April 19th online, and I’m the guest speaker.Valuable News – 2022/04/11.Penguicon 2022 Schedule and Books.  Michael W. Lucas isn’t presenting on BSD but he’ll have some BSD-related books.  Please buy Savaged by systemd from him.  I just saw it in audiobook form through Google search and no I will not click on it.OpenSSH 9.0 released.switch to current or wait for 7.1?  Really, a Minecraft question.Fundraising Update Q1 2022.FreeBSD 13.1 on ThinkPad W520.Q1 2022 Software Development Projects Update.Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation.OpenBSD 7.0 video overview.1 Comment - Categories: BSD Posted on 2022/04/14BSD Now 450: Unix Tool WritingThis week’s BSD Now, which I remembered to link to on time, is about Unix tools as a concept.0 Comments - Categories: BSD, Periodicals Posted on 2022/04/102022/04/08Lazy Reading for 2022/04/10A historical focus this week but then again that’s not uncommon.Great Moments in Taxonomy. Several links to follow.Team Tsathogga / City of Spires setting primer, for Severed Fane.Dungeons and Desktops, a history of computer RPGs.  (via)The Elusive Shift, early D&D from wargaming to roleplay.  (also via)Bent? is an alive, unstable Japanese noise box.  (via)Infinite Mac, an instant-booting Quadra in your browser.  I got system7.app to crash playing Marathon so that is accurate.Spacewar! is 60 Today!Why the fascination with retrocomputing?  (via)The Tao of Acme.  (via)Retro Lite CM4: a Compute Module 4 gaming console.  (via)Webinar –  Ethernet’s Emergence from Xerox PARC: 1975-1980.  These are not historians, but the actual people who created and implemented it.  (via)0 Comments - Categories: Lazy Reading Posted on 2022/04/092022/04/13In Other BSDs for 2022/04/09Last news item is the saddest.Does swap still matter?  I linked to an earlier iteration of the thread but there’s more.System with a GNU userland and a BSD kernel.FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 is out.Making my pkg.conf configuration version independent.Valuable News – 2022/04/04.helloSystem 13.1-RC1.Multiprocess support for LLDB.Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS.  Part 1 of 4.Writing a NetBSD kernel module.  (via)TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor.  (via)Bill Jolitz has passed away.  (via)1 Comment - Categories: BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD Posted on 2022/04/08BSD Now 448 and 449448: Controlling Resource Limits and 449: Reproducible clean $HOME are both available, because I’m a slacker and didn’t link when they were published.0 Comments - Categories: BSD, Periodicals Posted on 2022/04/032022/04/02Lazy Reading for 2022/04/03I thought I was going to be short this week, and then started cleaning out old open browser tabs…The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever used.Note taking in Emacs with howm.Eponymous Laws Part I: Laws of the Internet.  (via)TORI Nixie Calculator.  Every maker buzzword in a single product.Preserving more of the history of logic programming (especially source code).  (via)Related: softwarepreservation.org.Stevie Wonder and His Dream Machines.  Related to all the synth links I post.  (via)The Art of the For… Next Loop.  (via)TZDB and some challenges of long data.  (via)In the Hall of the Third Blue Wizard – KickStarter Launch.Wi-Fi Memories.Lumon.Majestic Fantasy, old school D&D.Swords and Wizardry, same.WebAssembly in my Browser Desktop Environment.  (via)cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display.  (via)0 Comments - Categories: Lazy Reading Posted on 2022/04/022022/04/02In Other BSDs for 2022/04/02Mini-ZFS theme this week.OpenBSD Webzine #8.Heap Overflow in OpenBSD’s slaacd via Router Advertisement.  (via several places)pkgsrc-2022Q1 is out.Nixxers is back!Need Help installing favorite game Trek73.  Followup.Does swap still matter?  A long thread.Toolchains adventures – Q1 2022.ZFS Compatibility.Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS.Meet my two heroes from Unix world: Marshal Kirk and Eric Allman!  (via)FreeBSD/EC2: What I’ve been up to.Valuable News – 2022/03/21 and  2022/03/28.Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd.Add support for XBox One gamecontroller.HardenedBSD March 2022 Status Report.paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD.  Chunky chunky.0 Comments - Categories: BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, pkgsrc Posts navigationPage 1Page 2…Page 432Next page Whose fault is this?Justin Sherrill(unrelated tumblr, instagram, mastodon)[email protected] 2004Yes! 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