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Power levels and how to vary them

Nov 10, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Power levels and how to vary them Alex Hornung is having trouble getting his power consumption as low as it could be on his DragonFly laptop.  A side effect of this problem is that when he posts about it, he also manages to enumerate all the various ways you can reduce power consumption and heat usage on a laptop.  (Follow the thread for more.)
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APIC_IO changes warning

Nov 10, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
APIC_IO changes warning If your system has trouble when APIC_IO is enabled, and you’re tracking DragonFly 2.9, you may have trouble on your next build.  The fix is putting this in your loader.conf: hw.apic_io_enable=0 I know this has already been covered, to some extent, but one can never be too clear with solutions.
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APIC_IO changes

Nov 08, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
APIC_IO changes For a long time, APIC_IO was an option that you usually had to enable for multiprocessor capability in your kernel config.  Michael Neumann fixed up and changed this so it’s no longer a kernel config option for i386 or x86_64, but rather a loader tunable: hw.apic_io_enable.
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Deduplication arrives

Nov 08, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Deduplication arrives Ilya Dryomov’s work on deduplication for Hammer has been committed to the tree in an early test form.  I guess I need to pay up as part of the code bounty.  If you’re wondering how much space it will save, but don’t want to try non-production code yet, there’s a ‘hammer dedup-simulate’ command that will est [...]
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Lazy Reading: Clouds, cookies, bugs, ...

Nov 07, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Lazy Reading: Clouds, cookies, bugs, more A catch-up week. Ivan Voras askes for the ‘anti-cloud‘, a true decentralization of resources instead of the cloud-as-a-central-service-from-one-company, which is what it’s becoming now. How not to design a protocol, about HTTP cookies.   (via)  I’ve heard from far more people worried about cookies and the need to clea [...]
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BSDTalk: Matthew Dillon, DragonFly

Nov 06, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Another day, another BSDTalk item: this time it’s 15 minutes with Matthew Dillon at MeetBSD, talking about the 2.8 release.  It was recorded either today or yesterday – quite fresh. Matthew happens to mention that experimental deduplication support will arrive next week in Hammer.
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Google Code-in: us too!

Nov 06, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
We’re part of Google Code-In!  One of 20 organizations, this time. If you want to contribute something right now, we can always use more Code-In ideas on our project page.  (Follow the categories on the Code-In page.)  Applications start on Nov. 22nd. Update: my mailing list post with details.
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Hey, that’s neat-looking

Nov 06, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Posted by ‘blinkkin’ on IRC: this SVG test using DragonFly facts.  Click on it; it zooms.
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BSDTalk: PC-BSD, Kris Moore

Nov 06, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
BSDTalk has a brand new interview from the just-finished MeetBSD, talking about PC-BSD 9 with Kris Moore.  (18 minutes)
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A pile of upcoming events

Nov 04, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
This is just based on what’s shown up in my Inbox lately: AsiaBSDCon has a Call for Papers for the 2011 event, next March. ECI in Argentina has a Call for Course Proposals. MeetBSD 2010 is in a few days.   (The conference with a paraplegic woman as the logo?) BSDDay 2010 is happening in Hungary later this month. NYCBSDCon (Read more.. [...]
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Swapcache helps out more

Nov 03, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Swapcache is normally used with a SSD, but Matthew Dillon was able to set it up using a separate, ‘normal’ hard disk on avalon.dragonflybsd.org. This reduced pressure on the machine’s existing disk, especially with the recent release causing much traffic.
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Building Cairo/gstreamer/etc.

Nov 03, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
If you have trouble building Cairo or gstreamer or some other X-related packages, check this page from Dave Shao.  It came in useful for me.  (linked by Steve O’Hara Smith)
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November OSBR: Economic Development

Nov 02, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
The November issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, with the theme of “Economic Development.”  I like the microcredit article, but perhaps that’s just my special interest. The December issue’s theme is “Humanitarian Open Source” and the guest editor will be Leslie Hawthorn.  She’s current [...]
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HOWTO ftp

Nov 02, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Pratyush Kshirsagar has added a howto page on setting up a ftp server, among other services . The longer I work on this Digest, the harder the names are to spell. Edit: Link fixed.
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Google Code-In tasks and small setups

Nov 01, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
I updated the projects page for DragonFly with some labeling of potential work for Google Code-In.   Pratyush Kshirsagar suggested porting busybox, which Chris Turner countered with flashdist/flashrd.  ‘joris dedieu’ followed with beastiebox.
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NYCBSDCon early registration extended

Nov 01, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
The early bird registration (a cheap $95) for NYCBSDCon has been extended an extra week to match how long they ran it previous years.  November 7th, it goes to $125 and walk-in will be $145.
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ral(4) support on the way

Oct 31, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Chris Turner is working on ral(4) support, specifically the eee901′s 2860 network chip.
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Google Code-In project notes

Oct 29, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
I’ve coded some tasks on the DragonFly projects page for Google Code-In.  (Application is in already.)  If there’s any additional DragonFly projects appropriate for 13 to 18-year old students, that’s the place to add it.  The application period ends the 29th at 23:00 UTC, so don’t take your time.
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Fix for x86_64 and non-English LANG u...

Oct 29, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
If you’re using DragonFly x86_64, and set LANG to something other than English, you will get crashes from programs using pkgsrc’s gettext-lib.  Francois Tigeot has a fix which is going into pkgsrc, though I don’t know if this will show up in pkgsrc-2010Q3.
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Release… soon!

Oct 29, 2010 ~ Written by justin sherrill
The 2.8 release hasn’t quite happened yet.  But soon!
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