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Roguelikes gone international
Did you know there was a “Berlin International Roguelike Development Conference 2008“? Me neither, but there’s video to prove it. (via)
Today is apparently crazy links day.
Power strip deal
I don’t normally link to things like this, but these are useful: Woot! is running a special on a 2-pack of 5-outlet Power Squids. (Sorry, non-120v-3-prong European readers; won’t help you much…) Today only, like most Woot! specials.
Sysadmin’s Rosetta Stone
I find this strangely useful: a listing of equivalent concepts and commands, across a wide variety of Unix-ish systems. Be prepared to scroll, and make sure to check the extra links at the bottom. (via)
pkgsrc results ever improving
Hasso Tepper’s continued to post better and better bulk build results from pkgsrc, and has more patches on the way for when the 2008Q3 release is done.
DragonFly, threading, and a thesis
Robert Luciani’s EuroBSDCon bachelor’s thesis presentation on DragonFly’s threading model is available as a PDF. (anyone have a mirror? That link is intermittent.) Previous versions have been linked here before.
OSBR: A census and tools
This entry on the OSBR blog links to the recent results of the OpenLogic open source survey. It also mentions some “free software for non-free platform” bundles that I hadn’t heard of, like OpenDisc and OSSWin.
Wierd ssh bug fixed
Hasso Tepper brought in a fix from OpenBSD for ssh; apparently empty banners on some types of network equipment would cause a disconnect. This isn’t major, but there may just be someone out there reading this for whom knowing about that saves a lot of frustration.
BSDTalk 159: Kris Moore and PC-BSD
The latest 12-minute BSDTalk has an interview with Kris Moore, one of the folks involved in PC-BSD. Version 7 of PC-BSD was just released.
DragonFly, threading, and EuroBSDCon
Robert Luciani’s EuroBSDCon presentation on DragonFly’s threading model is available as a PDF. (anyone have a mirror? That link is intermittent.)
Two old-school game links
The most recent @Play article talks about Legerdemain, a cross between roguelikes and old-style RPGs like Ultima. It’s old school twice over.
The entries in the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition are all available. (Think Infocom-style games.) (via)
Hasso adds a lot
Hasso Tepper has committed Sascha Wildner’s port of FreeBSD’s devinfo(3) and devinfo(8), for “ userspace access to the internal device hierarchy". Hasso also updated acpi_battery(4), for battery monitoring.
He's also ported devd(8) from FreeBSD, with an inital patch for testing.
More cross-BSD work
It’s always nice to see work benefiting multiple BSDs. (via) Joerg Sonnenberger also gets credit for committing patches from Hasso Tepper to pkgsrc, contributing to the upward success rate for pkgsrc packages building on DragonFly.
Realtek 8102EL support and history
Mitja Horvat purchased an Intel D945GCLF motherboard, which worked fine with DragonFly except for some minor issues with hardware checksumming on the Realtek 8102EL network card. He supplied a patch to fix this, which was committed. Edward O’Callaghan chimed in with some history of why this particular card was problematic in DragonFly and other operating systems.
DragonFly on VirtualBox
Michael Neumann has a patch that makes DragonFly able to run on VirtualBox; Matthew Dillon has a suggestion on how to make the fix permanent, which also may help with clock timing under other virtualized setups.