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DNSSEC Mastery in print, and Absolute...

May 18, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Michael W. Lucas has two bits of mostly-BSD-centric publishing news.  One is that a physical version of his DNSSEC Mastery book is now available through Amazon. The other bit is that, having just released an Absolute OpenBSD update, his Absolute FreeBSD book will not see an update… until the FreeBSD installer gets more coherent. (If you [...]
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BSDTalk 225: Kris Moore and PC-BSD

May 17, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
BSDTalk 225 has 12 minutes of conversation with Kris Moore about PC-BSD, recorded at BSDCan 2013, which is going on right now.
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bsdtalk225 – PC-BSD with Kris M...

May 17, 2013 ~ Written by Will Backman
bsdtalk225 – PC-BSD with Kris Moore Interview during BSDCan 2013 with Kris Moore from iXsystems.  We talk about some of the new features of PC-BSD.File Info: 12Min, 6MB.Ogg Linkhttp://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk225.ogg
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Book review – DNSSEC Mastery

May 17, 2013 ~ Written by PsyberMonkey
Book review – DNSSEC Mastery For the past few days, I've spent most of my reading time with a new book titled DNSSEC Mastery. The author of the book is Michael W. Lucas, again (from my not too long ago book review blog post, Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition). He's now one of my favorite tech book author, upgraded from "favorite blog author". (Read more.. [...]
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tpm(4) module added

May 16, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
The tpm(4) driver has been added by Sascha Wildner, ported from FreeBSD.  What’s it do? From the man page: “The tpm driver provides support for various trusted platform modules (TPM) that can store cryptographic keys.” Crypto keys stored in hardware, where they are in theory unmangleable, instead of on the disk. At least, th [...]
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Interview with William Allaire

May 15, 2013 ~ Written by openbsd journal
Undeadly spoke with Bill Allaire, winner of the Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition auction started by author Michael W. Lucas and reported on by us last month. Bill ended up with the winning bid of $1,145.00 US. Read more...
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More IP forwarding performance

May 15, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Sepherosa Ziehau has posted some numbers showing improvements in ip forwarding rates.  He’s done this before, except this time it’s with bnx(4), probably because of his recent commits.
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More updates

May 15, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
This time it’s less and libedit, updated by John Marino.
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Book review: DNSSEC Mastery

May 12, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Michael W. Lucas recently wrote and self-published a new book, DNSSEC Mastery.  He asked me to review it, and I’ve been reading it in bits and starts over the past few very busy weeks. First, the background: If you’re not familiar with the acronym, it’s a method of securing DNS information so that you can trust that domain n [...]
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No Lazy Reading

May 12, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
I’m inexplicably short on links this week; I blame my schedule/the nice weather for much for much of the U.S./the class I’m teaching ending/my trip to TCAF for this.  More Lazy Reading next week!  Meanwhile, I have a book review coming up as an alternative.
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January-March 2013 Status Report

May 12, 2013 ~ Written by freebsd news flash
The January to March 2013 Status Report is now available with 31 entries.
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Many upgrades, and Hammer

May 11, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
John Marino managed to update GCC from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 (4.7 changelog), zlib from 1.2.7 to 1.2.8 (changelog), and awk from 20110810 to 20121220 (can’t find a changelog). In other update news, Matt Dillon has been working on HAMMER2′s flush sequencing. Update: tcsh too.
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scp: Do not Overwrite Existing File O...

May 10, 2013 ~ Written by nixCraft
I am a new Linux user. I use scp to upload files to net-storage provided CDN company. I do not want to overwrite the existing files. How can I prevent overwriting of files when using scp command under Linux, Mac OS X or Unix like operating systems?Read answer to: \"scp: Do not Overwrite Existing File On Linux or (Read more...)
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Reduce gray-listing pain by seeding w...

May 10, 2013 ~ Written by openbsd journal
Longtime Undeadly contributor sean writes in with tips and tools for improving your spamd(8) experience: I have been using gray-listing to thwart spamming for what feels like a very long time. I started using it around the release of OpenBSD 3.5. It was an amazing change from a constant storm of spam and just enabling it got rid of 80% [...]
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The Bacula Tutorial jail server

May 10, 2013 ~ Written by Dan Langille
One of the challenges of providing hands-on demonstrations is giving everyone their own sandbox to play in. I don’t want people to spend time on installing software. I want people to learn about the software in question, specifically Bacula. With this in mind, I’ve been building up a solution based on FreeBSD 9.1, ZFS, and [...]
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FreeBSD Foundation Announces Ed Maste...

May 09, 2013 ~ Written by Deb
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste\'s new role as theFoundation\'s part-time Director of Project Development.  Ed has servedon the Foundation\'s board for two years, and has stepped down in order toaccept this new position.In this position Ed will manage the Foundation\'s sponsored work,including projects funded under [...]
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FreeBSD Foundation Announces Ed Maste...

May 09, 2013 ~ Written by freebsd news flash
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste\'s new role as the Foundation\'s part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation\'s board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position.
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Usage for dports and pkgsrc

May 09, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
In the week after DragonFly 3.4 was released, Francois Tigeot was tracking downloads for each type of packaging system.  It looks like dports downloads far outnumber pkgsrc.  I think there’s reasons it appears different in uptake, but it’s still neat to see people trying the new system.
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Absolute OpenBSD: super-short sale

May 08, 2013 ~ Written by justin sherrill
As seen on Author Michael W. Lucas’s blog: Absolute OpenBSD 2nd edition is 50% off in a sort of ‘flash deal’.  Grab it today if you are interested, cause I think it’s only for today.
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FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 Available

May 08, 2013 ~ Written by freebsd news flash
The third RC build for the FreeBSD-8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
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