OverTRIMmed
Matthew Dillon recently fixed a TRIM bug, where a TRIM command was being issued unconditionally, regardless of the mount flag, and duplicating the action if it was set normally. It’s fixed now. This would only have any significant slowdown on UFS, which means it would only affect installworld – the rest of your mounted volumes a [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/10/07
Old computer theme this week. That may be more of a constant.
PiDP-11: Recreating the PDP-11/70. (via)
Fonts on Unix. (via) The source comments mention Go Mono a number of times; new to me.
Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade! Could it still work?? Of course the answer is eventually yes (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/10/06
Still catching up on links.
garbage 43. The RSS feed may have changed? I should have seen this directly. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 travel report and obligatory pics. (via)
NetBSD curses ripoffline improvements. (via)
Installing Hugo and publishing Hugo web-pages on OpenBSD server (Read more...)
virtio_random in DragonFly
Something I didn’t know existed but makes sense now that I do: a virtualized randomness device, added to DragonFly. Entropy is usually provided through hardware, so of course you’d need something for it in a VM.
BSDNow 266: File Type History
BSDNow 266 is up, and while the title is “File Type History”, there’s a number of “this is how I use BSD” stories on there, which I always find interesting.
NYCBUG tonight
6:30 tonight: NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, with the topic of Subdo. I don’t know what that is, but we all can find out: tonight’s meeting will be streamed.
New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc
Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) writes in about fresh developments in mandoc(1):
During EuroBSDCon 2018 in Bucuresti, Adam Kalisz suggested to add
a table of contents near the top of the HTML output of mandoc,
and i just implemented and committed that.
Read more…
DragonFly, Cygwin, and PuTTY
To add to my ongoing slow fiddle with DragonFly: I’ve noted how to install in Hyper-V, and how to use Cygwin to connect to run X. Here’s another step: if you are using PuTTY/Pageant, as I am, and want to connect, Cygwin/X needs to be told to listen on TCP. Find your /usr/bin/startxwin file in Cygwin and change (Read more...)
Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve, a...
bhyve is a hypervisor/virtual machine manager developed on FreeBSD.
xhyve is port of bhyve to OS X. It is built on top of Hypervisor.framework in OS X 10.10 Yosemite and higher, runs entirely in userspace, and has no other dependencies.
I usually use MacPorts, but ran into trouble with xhyve, so this morning I tried Homebrew instead.
Installi [...]
EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers
I presented the state of NetBSD sanitizers during EuroBSDCon 2018 held in Bucharest, Romania.
I gave two talks, one covered userland sanitizers and the other one kernel sanitizers.
Unfortunately video recordings from the conference are not available, but I\'ve uploaded my slides online:
LLVM Sanitizers in the NetBSD userland
Taking NetBSD k [...]
EuroBSDCon 2018 travel report and obl...
This was my first big BSD conference. We also planned - planned might be a big word -
thought about doing a devsummit on Friday. Since the people who were in charge of that
had a change of plans, I was sure it\'d go horribly wrong.
The day before the devsummit and still in the wrong country, I mentioned the (Read more...)
KnoxBUG, tonight
There’s a KnoxBUG BSD user group meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, with the topic of “Real-world Performance Advantages of NVDIMM and NVMe: A Case Study with OpenZFS“, presented by Nick Principe. It’s happening at 6 PM, tonight. They have the prettiest logo of any BUG that I’ve seen.
Lazy Reading for 2018/09/30
I cleared my tab backlog, but I still have a RSS backlog to work through here. Please be patient as I post a crapton of links and still don’t make it to the end.
Close Your Open Tabs. Linked because I didn’t know about tab pinning, and it’s super handy.
BINAC: A Brief Look Back. (video) Mercury delay (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/29
EuroBSDCon 2018 unfortunately had no video, but the presentations are showing up online.
FreeBSD bhyve live migration coming soon. (thanks, subbsd)
Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. (via)
OpenBSD netcat demystified. (via)
OpenBSD and Diving. The SCUBA kind. (via)
Spoiler alert for BSD packet filter profiling.
r/openbsd_gaming’s G [...]
DragonFly on Hyper-V, locally
For the future edification of others: I mentioned I installed DragonFly under Hyper-V on a Windows 10 laptop. I wanted to be able to open a terminal on DragonFly while in my Windows environment. I have that now; here’s what I did:
Installed DragonFly in Hyper-V (see my prior install notes)
Installed xorg on DragonFly. (pkg install x [...]
