In Other BSDs for 2019/11/23
Read that last link, if only to make your convention-going safer in the future. Maintaining port modifications in FreeBSD. (via) The fading out of multi-‘architecture’ Unix environments. Followup: In...
View ArticleIn Other BSDs for 2019/12/21
I managed to miss the Thursday update to BSDNow (#329) – Michael W. Lucas is interviewed mostly about his unnatural love of gelato BSD books , and he’s always an entertaining talker. NomadBSD –...
View ArticleIn Other BSDs for 2020/02/22
No theme this week cause I think I hit everything. Dr. Paul Vixie is giving a talk on March 3rd at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, titled “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes“. I’ll post a reminder. NetBSD 9.0...
View ArticleIn Other BSDs for 2020/04/11
BUG meetings are canceled, but this can’t be surprising at this point. Installing FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi 1/2/3. (via) Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve. (via) SNMP Mastery...
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2020/04/19
I could not come up with a good roguelike link this week, but I am hitting many of my other usual targets. Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal. Right up my alley. (via) Clocking a 6502 to 15GHz...
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2020/05/10
Emacs and Vim content; I feel like I should always have one with the other. Tiny arcade stuffed in an NES controller. Text Radio: Realtime written interviews hosted in Google Docs. (via) Making Emacs...
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2020/05/24
It’s rare, but I was able to collect most of these links more than 24 hours before you are reading them. Some views on having your system timezone set to UTC. The Era of Fragmentation, Part 3: The...
View ArticleIn Other BSDs for 2020/08/29
No theme, but plenty of variety. A reimplementation of NetBSD based on a microkernel. Valuable News – 2020/08/24. “TLS Mastery” Covers Reveal, with T-shirts and Posters. TrueNAS 12.0 beta out....
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2020/09/06
I went esoteric this week, and it was fun! 7 habits of effective text editing. (video, via) My divergence from ‘proper’ Vim by not using and exploring features. 7 versatile Vim commands that are easy...
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2020/09/13
Completed Tuesday, in an effort to reduce tab count in my browser. A few tips about the command cd. FOSS laptops and subpar displays. Battery life is I think the hidden reason for this. How the...
View ArticleSomething to read
I have nothing to post about, for the first time in a while, so here is a treat I have been saving: Request for biographies. (follow the whole thread) It’s a long thread from the SIGCIS mailing list...
View ArticleBSD Now 378: Networknomicon
This week’s BSD Now is a special treat: an interview with author Michael W. Lucas, author of a bunch of BSD and non-BSD books. If you’re looking for presents, he’s selling extra books originally...
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2020/12/27
I haven’t had many posts this past week because of a mix of work then holidays. but there’s always Lazy Reading. My favorite essays of life advice. Lode Runner. “just don’t use any non-essential...
View ArticleLast minute sponsorships
Michael W. Lucas’s ebook sponsorships and print sponsorships for “TLS Mastery” will close in the next 24-48 hours; get in there if you want to participate.
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2021/04/11
Some looks backward to prior links, but in a good way. Beatportal’s Definitive Guide to Techno. (via) Which reminds me of eternal favorite Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music. Your E-Mail Validation...
View ArticleIn Other BSDs for 2021/07/17
More BUG meetings are happening, which is great. Next ChiBUG meeting: in person, July 20th. I’ll post a reminder. The slides from the most recent NYCBUG meeting. The historical significance of DEC and...
View ArticleBSD Now 418: The greatest time in history to be a creator
No allusions or puns in this week’s BSD Now title, for sure. It’s all Michael W. Lucas interviewing, so sure to be a good time.
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2022/03/06
No mini-theme. The day the IoT died. “they are future-proofing us as a consumer for them, not the things they sell us”. (via, via) More Cyberdecks should have CRTs instead of LCDs. DNSSEC Mastery,...
View ArticleIn Other BSDs for 2022/03/26
Note the new-to-me book news in there. The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022. FreeBSD 13.1 beta2 is out. Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD....
View ArticleNerdiest nerdy book list
Keeping your published fiction and technical book list in SNMP is definitely a new use of a MIB to me.
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