October 2011
29 posts
A whole lot of VM fixes →
Matthew Dillon and Venkatesh Srinivas have committed several fixes for some elusive problems. If you’ve had an unexplained crash, this may keep it from repeating. If you haven’t had a wierd…
September 2011
16 posts
OSBR: now it’s TIM →
The Open Source Business Resource, linked here before, has become the Technology Innovation Management Review, or TIM Review. Conveniently, the editor is named Chris, not Tim, so nobody will get…
Potential job available →
A position opened up for a junior systems administrator at my workplace. You have to be willing to live near Rochester, NY, administrate a mix of Windows and unixy machines, do desktop support, and…
More on DragonFly in production →
Michael W. Lucas is setting up two DragonFly machines, to try out Hammer. I linked to his tweet about this in the last Lazy Reading post, but this is a more in-depth explanation of what he’s…
Pkgsrc freeze for 2011Q3 is extended →
The freeze for the next quarterly release of pkgsrc has been extended another week, to October 2nd. This will push the DragonFly 2.12 release out a ways, too.
Lazy Reading for 2011/09/25 →
This week’s Lazy Reading just built itself up quickly; autumn arrives in the northern hemisphere and suddenly a lot more activity starts going on.
9vx, Plan 9 as a user process. (sorta like a…
2.12 Release issue roundup →
I’ve put together a catch-all ticket for remaining issues to fix before the 2.12 release of DragonFly: Issue 2135. Several of the issues have already been dealt with by Peter Avalos and Sepherosa…
OpenSSh update to 5.9p1 →
Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSH to version 5.9p1. This might be the last thing before the next DragonFly release.
Update on the update: he updated OpenSSL (1.0.0e) and file (5.09) too.
Lazy Reading for 2011/09/18 →
I might have a job open at my workplace soon, for a junior admin/support/network role. (Department is too small for narrowly defined roles…) I’ll post about it here if it happens.
libguestfs,…
TCP changes I think →
From what I can tell, Sepherosa Ziehau’s made some changes where you can control TCP timeout and keepalive timing on a per-tcpcb basis, or at least that’s what I gleaned from the docs. He’s…
Summer of Code and DragonFly, 2011 wrapup →
DragonFly had another good year with Google’s Summer of Code program. We had 6 slots, and 5 passed projects. (Irinia, if you’re reading this – where did you go?) This is our 4th year participating…
Pkgsrc in freeze soon for 2011Q3 →
The ‘freeze’ period (when bugfixes are the only addition) for pkgsrc will start on September 18th, with the next quarterly release of pkgsrc, 2011Q3, scheduled for the 25th. Think of it as an…
Puppet support for DragonFly →
Noticed through a saved Google search: DragonFly BSD support as part of Puppet. This was thanks to the work of a ‘jaydg’. Thanks, person whose name I probably should know!
BSD Magazine for September →
BSD Magazine’s September issue is out. This time, I have an article in it about data recovery with Hammer:
We’ve all experienced instant regret. That’s the feeling that comes within a second of…
Lazy Reading for 2011/09/04 →
It’s almost the end of summer here, or at least the traditional end of summer in North America. About time, too! I don’t like the heat. Anyway, as people trickle back to school, some more…
Time travel in Samoa. Also, time zone updates →
Sascha Wildner updated time zone files again. It’s a regular thing, but I wanted to draw attention to this little change:
Samoa moves from east to west of the international date line (changes…
BFQ scheduler writeup →
Brills Peng has written up a nice description of his scheduler work for Google Summer of Code, with details on what it does, and how to try it out. Best of all, he plans to keep working on it!
August 2011
15 posts
More Summer of Code results →
Another batch of code has arrived from Google Summer of Code student work. In this case, it’s code from Adam Hoka’s “Implementing a mirror target for device mapper” project, committed by…
Lazy Reading for 2011/08/28 →
This week has taught me one thing for sure: Always make sure your backup generator is working. And over-plan battery capacity. That’s actually two things, but what the heck. I’m tired, for reasons…
DESTDIR almost done →
There are only 45 packages out of over 10,000 in pkgsrc that do not support being installed by people who aren’t root, or in different locations. Thomas Klausner has that list of 45 packages. It’s…
