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[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 9
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c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 9) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Thanks to Henning Brauer (henning@) and others, we have reliable and a good enough for jazz means of keeping time in OpenBSD. When you are querying 8 public stratum 2 servers from a random pool from pool.ntp.org, you might have one lie to you but not all eight. It is another example of OpenBSD's systems approach to doing things. Eliminate any single point of failure whenever possible. Yet, there are two individuals who took time keeping to the next level of go anywhere and get time and position. |
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Read on to learn more about OpenBSD's approach to time and position:
Read more...[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 8
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c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 8) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada I often find it ironic and a little sad that one of the most important security applications on the Internet is so poorly funded. For anyone that manages machines remotely and is concerned about security, it is perhaps the most important application to rely on for security and stability. I'm sure you know which application I am referring to, but do you know that it is the de facto world standard in its class on the Internet? |
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Read on to find out why and more:
Read more...Slackathon 2008
Janne Johansson (jj@) writes in to tell us about the swedish fundraiser, Slackathon 2008, that is taking place at Stockholm University on the September 13, 2008. More details after the jump...
Read more...[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 7
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c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 7) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Next to Google, this company employs more OpenBSD developers than any other. One of the interesting things about this company is that like Google, everyone that I spoke to loves working there! What's surprising about that you say? Well, how many of you can say: "I love going to work." Not all of the OpenBSD developers from this company work on OpenBSD at work. Moreover, they all speak so highly of their bosses. Now, how many of you can say that? |
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Read on to find out what is really special about this company and its employees:
Read more...[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 6
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c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 6) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada When you have a developer like this on the team, even if you don't know anything about OpenBSD, you know that there must be something special about it to attract the likes of him. |
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Read on to learn why this developer is so unique:
Read more...[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 5
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c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 5) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada I had the pleasure of working beside Todd Fries (todd@) for my second hackathon. Two years ago at c2k6, we were working on ipsecctl testing together. Even then, he was a heavy IPv6 user. I would also wager a bet that he uses his Zaurus more than any other developer (mcbride@ is a close second) and I don't mean for building snapshots or packages. |
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Read on to find out what weird networking is all about:
Read more...Conference venues
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[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 4
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c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 4) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada All those of us who wished to go on the hike were told to be downstairs and ready by 06:00. Surprisingly, everyone made it in time; however, at about ten minutes to six, Theo came down from the hacking room looking seriously sleep deprived. He noticed that Artur Grabowski (art@) was alone, outside, waking up in the cold drizzly Canadian morning air whilst getting his morning dose of nicotine before the four hour long car ride. On his way out to talk to Art, Theo muttered, "Art's going to love to hear this." It was just the two of them outside now and they both looked concerned. Art lit up another one and by now most of the group had congregated outside ready to depart. Was there going to be a change in plans? |
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Read more...[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 3
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c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 3) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada At the end of the c2k8 hackathon, I sent out an email to all the developers asking for a summary report in their own words. I leave it up to them to be as verbose as they want to be. In general, I can usually fit two developers into one article to get the optimal number of words, as it is a fine balance between information overload and not enough information. The most important thing to me is never to belittle what the developers do for us. That is, I feel that each developer should have their own spotlight. In fact, if I could, each developer would have a summary article on undeadly solely dedicated to their work, rather than bunch a half dozen or so developers into one article. |
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Read on to understand what "Shut up and hack!" really means:
Read more...[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 2
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c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 2) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada About three and a half years ago, Jean-Francois Brousseau (jfb@) introduced OpenCVS. Since then, there has been a lot of interest, excitement and anticipation for this more secure BSD-licensed alternative to GNU cvs. It is also getting closer to prime time. |
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Read on to understand what is going to happen soon.
Read more...[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 1
Mark Uemura (mtu@), back by popular demand, has been gracious enough to share his experiences at c2k8, The OpenBSD General Hackathon in Edmonton. Here is his first summary:
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c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 1) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The c2k8 hackathon is now over but tremors of the week long earthquake that hit cvs are still being felt from Theo's dinner table. That is what hackathons do. They are like fuel tanks that keep OpenBSD development moving forward and the Big Hackathon held annually is like a boost of nitrous oxide. |
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Mark's continues below.
Read more...[c2k8]: Developer Blog: grunk@ - SSH Fingerprint Visualization Support
Alexander von Gernler (grunk@) has committed support for SSH fingerprint visualization. This is a technique to make it possible for users to remember SSH fingerprints more easily. Instead of just looking at the ssh fingerprint in clear text you can now get a graphical pattern where your key is represented by a worm inside a field, the worm will look slightly different depending on the fingerprint.
Please read on for Alexander's blog...
Read more...[c2k8]: Accelerated X Support for AMD Geode LX
Marc Balmer (mbalmer@) writes about his endeavors into amd-geode graphics that has given us support for the amd-geode-lx gpu in X11.
Marc writes:Marc continues below... Read more...Earlier this week I reported that X runs on AMD Geode LX graphics processors using the 'vesa' driver. Well, there is some good news: The accelerated 'geode' driver now works as well and X runs quite a bit faster with it.