my BSD Planet

Open Question: Are we at the ebook tipping point? - It's official Kindle books are outselling print books.

2011-05-19T19:01:21+00:00

Not only have Kindle sales increased by a factor of three year over year, the digital copy sales have overtaken the combined sales of hardcover and paperback book sales. Is the ebook tipping point upon us?

What ebook designers can learn from Bible-reading software - A deep dive into the ebook innovations of Logos Bible Software and Glo Bible.

2011-05-19T19:01:21+00:00

Pete Meyers has been kicking the tires on two reading systems — Logos Bible Software and Glo Bible — both of which are filled with reader-friendly ebook features.

ePayments Week: Who will deliver swipe-and-pay first? - Isis invites everyone into its NFC effort, rumors swirl around Apple retail, and mobile banking is on a tear.

2011-05-19T19:01:21+00:00

Isis' CEO opens the doors to its NFC effort, while a stealth project at Apple's retail stores makes some wonder if it will leap ahead of other NFC players. Also, mobile banking is on a tear, especially where it's the first option for the unbanked.

[19 May] [15:43 kuriyama@FreeBSD.org] devel/p5-Ouch - 0.0401

2011-05-19T19:00:12+00:00

Perl extension for exceptions that don\'t hurt

The next, next big thing - The web had its day. Mobile is already peaking. So what's next?

2011-05-19T16:45:45+00:00

Those evangelizing the revolutionary qualities of "the next big thing" (whatever it may be) would do well to revisit past "big things." Truth is, computing goes in cycles.

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-19T15:35:37+00:00

Add more instructions for Guru Mediation

Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only

2011-05-19T15:32:00+00:00

Moderator writes "Could Gnome drop support for non-Linux operating systems? That was a recent proposal on the Gnome mailing list, although there were significant objections in response. Quoting: 'It is harmful to pretend that you are writing the OS core to work on any number of different kernels...the time has come for GNOME to embrace Linux a bit more boldly.'"

Four short links: 19 May 2011 - Internet Access Rights, Statistical Peace, Vintage Jobs, and Errata Etymology

2011-05-19T15:18:47+00:00

Right to Access the Internet -- a survey of different countries' rights to access to access the Internet. Peace Through Statistics -- three ex-Yugoslavian statisticians nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. In war-torn and impoverished countries, statistics provides a welcome arena in which science runs independent of ethnicity and religion. With so few resources, many countries are graduating few, if...

A premium layer for web-based content - ValoBox looks to make premium (and locked) content accessible.

2011-05-19T15:17:47+00:00

By removing the "hoops, headaches, and hangovers" of traditional online book buying, CompletelyNovel co-founders Anna Lewis and Oliver Brooks hope their company new company, ValoBox, will streamline ebook consumption.

How to make sure your new Arduino board is working

2011-05-19T15:16:47+00:00

What do those flashing lights on an Arduino board mean? This brief overview explains. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers:Asterisk: How to use FollowMe to call a series of phone numbersHow to handle threads in Android, and what you need to watch forHow to get started learning Flex 4Tips for working at home Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

AleksandrRybalko

2011-05-19T14:51:58+00:00

AleksandrRybalko

2011-05-19T14:50:57+00:00

add links

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-19T14:37:38+00:00

Add more infos about guru mediation

[19 May] [14:55 kuriyama@FreeBSD.org] lang/p5-JavaScript-Value-Escape - 0.05

2011-05-19T13:59:44+00:00

Perl extension to avoid XSS with JavaScript value interpolation

[19 May] [14:43 kuriyama@FreeBSD.org] www/p5-Mozilla-CA - 20110409

2011-05-19T13:59:44+00:00

Perl extension for Mozilla CA cert bundle in PEM format

[19 May] [14:33 kuriyama@FreeBSD.org] www/p5-LWP-Authen-OAuth - 1.01

2011-05-19T13:59:44+00:00

Perl extension to generate signed OAuth requests

AdrianChadd/AtherosWifiList

2011-05-19T11:59:28+00:00

AdrianChadd

2011-05-19T11:58:34+00:00

AdrianChadd

2011-05-19T11:57:51+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff/PerPacketTPC

2011-05-19T11:57:09+00:00

Correct mistake

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff/PerPowerTPC

2011-05-19T11:56:19+00:00

#Ebook Deal/Day: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Ed - $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDJS6

2011-05-19T08:51:14+00:00

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New committer: Ben Laurie (src)

2011-05-19T08:25:01+00:00

[19 May] [03:46 jnlin@csie.nctu.edu.tw] security/pam_google_authenticator - 20110519

2011-05-19T03:29:15+00:00

PAM module for two-step authentication from Google

New gold linker

2011-05-19T02:40:09+00:00

John Marino has made it possible to use ‘gold‘, the new linker in binutils 2.21, on DragonFly. His explanatory post outlines the benefits (much faster C++ compiling), and caveats (does not work yet for building world/kernel).

NVIDIA card driver update

2011-05-19T02:37:11+00:00

Samuel Greear has a totally untested update to the NVIDIA video driver available. It may not work, but it’s not like that’ll be any different than the current state of the driver.

Debugging

2011-05-18T20:20:35+00:00

Debugging

2011-05-18T19:55:01+00:00

Add lldb link.

Debugging

2011-05-18T19:30:51+00:00

Minor sorting. Add link to PathDB (recently ported) and Solaris' MDB

How resilience engineering applies to the web world - John Allspaw on resilience engineering's role in web development and operations.

2011-05-18T19:23:45+00:00

Certain high risk industries — aviation, space travel,healthcare — use resilience engineering to investigate failures. Etsy vice president John Allspaw says the same concepts have a place in web engineering.

And the BAFTA goes to ... an app? - For the first time, an app has been nominated for a TV BAFTA.

2011-05-18T19:22:45+00:00

"The Malcolm Tucker: The Missing Phone" application has been nominated for a TV British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award. Henry Volans, head of Faber Digital, discusses the app and why he thinks it's being honored with the nomination.

IdeasPage

2011-05-18T19:04:02+00:00

IdeasPage

2011-05-18T19:00:31+00:00

Add link suggested by a Dtrace expert.

Four short links: 18 May 2011 - Future Libraries, Innovation History, Entity Extraction API, and Outside Insight

2011-05-18T15:23:03+00:00

The Future of the Library (Seth Godin) -- We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime. Passionate railing against a straw man. The library profession...

Developer Week in Review: Buying a lawsuit with an in-app purchase - In-app purchasing called into question, Mono moves on, and you've got new perl.

2011-05-18T15:20:47+00:00

This week Apple's iOS developer community got a patent wake up call, the recently discarded Mono project found a new home, and a favorite scripting language got a new version.

[18 May] [12:44 pcTA@cs.nctu.edu.tw] sysutils/mkntpwd - 1.0

2011-05-18T13:34:18+00:00

A utility to create Samba password hashes

#Ebook Deal/Day: Learning iPhone Programming - Only $11.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDFNE

2011-05-18T08:58:53+00:00

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#Ebook Deal/Day: Node: Up and Running - Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM95

2011-05-18T08:57:53+00:00

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AdrianChadd

2011-05-18T06:45:53+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff/LongDistance

2011-05-18T06:44:57+00:00

New pkgsrc bulk build results

2011-05-18T02:32:25+00:00

I have them, for DragonFly 2.11/i386 and DragonFly 2.11/x86_64 (see pkgsrc-bulk), on pkgsrc-2011Q1. I think I even uploaded them correctly this time.

[17 May] [20:31 skv@FreeBSD.org] lang/perl5.14 - 5.14.0

2011-05-17T22:59:11+00:00

Practical Extraction and Report Language

BSD Magazine 2011-05: Embedded BSD – FreeBSD and ALIX

2011-05-17T22:17:17+00:00

A new issue of the free BSD Magazine is available: Embedded BSD – FreeBSD and ALIX (pdf). From the table of contents: Introduction to the Z Shell In this modern age of computing, we are offered many choices with regard to how … Continue reading →

Putting conference distractions to good use - The Donahue app aims to sync conference presenters and audiences.

2011-05-17T20:58:13+00:00

A new app created by Tim Meaney, partner at Arc90, and Christopher Fahey, founding partner at Behavior Design, taps into and harnesses conference distraction. Here's how it works.

OSCON 2011 - Open Source Convention July 25-29, Portland, OR

2011-05-17T20:57:13+00:00

How to handle threads in Android, and what you need to watch for

2011-05-17T17:02:44+00:00

Android is fully capable of running multiple threads at the same time, but you need to know how applications use threads in order to design your application properly. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers:Set up a 4G mobile hotspot as a home Internet replacementHow Arduino's servo library controls positioningTwo ways to create a user Interface for AndroidAsterisk: How to use FollowMe to call a series of phone numbers Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

Why you can't really anonymize your data - It's time to accept and work within the limits of data anonymization.

2011-05-17T17:01:44+00:00

Because we now have so much data at our disposal, any dataset with a decent amount of information can be matched against identifiable public records. To keep datasets available, we must acknowledge that foolproof anonymization is an illusion.

Four short links: 17 May 2011 - Sorting Out 9/11, Tagging Text, Unlocking Scientific Publishing, and Internet Archive's Meatspace Branch

2011-05-17T17:00:45+00:00

Sorting Out 9/11 (New Yorker) -- the thorniest problem for the 9/11 memorial was the ordering of the names. Computer science to the rescue! Tagger -- Python library for extracting tags (statistically significant words or phrases) from a piece of text. Free Science, One Paper at a Time (Wired) -- Jonathan Eisen's attempt to collect and distribute his father's...

Free Strata Online Conference - Startups & Disruptors - May 25

2011-05-17T16:59:45+00:00

On May 25, attend the next Strata Online Conference and learn how big data services tear down barriers to entry and which businesses are most vulnerable to attacks by data-literate startups. Register to attend this free online event.

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-17T14:04:05+00:00

Update bug

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-17T13:08:13+00:00

Add undefined symbol bug

AdrianChadd/DonorsList

2011-05-17T13:08:01+00:00

#Ebook Deal/Day: Programming #HTML5 Applications - Only $13.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDM96

2011-05-17T09:04:44+00:00

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AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff/OverView

2011-05-17T08:56:03+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff/OverView

2011-05-17T08:09:18+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff/OverView

2011-05-17T07:58:25+00:00

AdrianChadd

2011-05-17T07:50:02+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff/OverView

2011-05-17T07:49:32+00:00

AdrianChadd/DonorsList

2011-05-17T07:36:44+00:00

AdrianChadd/DonorsList

2011-05-17T07:35:34+00:00

10 years of pf presentation

2011-05-17T07:23:44+00:00

Henning Brauer (henning@) has just sent an e-mail to misc@ announcing the publication of his presentation from BSDCan 2011. Weighing in at 82 pages, he gives a detailed overview of what happened to our favourite firewall in the last 10 years. I can still remember running IPF so a big thank you to all the developers involved in PF over the years is more than warranted.

Henning also reminds everybody that EuroBSDCon 2011 will be held in October in The Netherlands, with several OpenBSD developers presenting there. If you are in the area, make sure you stop by.

AdrianChadd/EmbeddedDevices

2011-05-17T05:41:08+00:00

AdrianChadd/EmbeddedDevices

2011-05-17T05:40:41+00:00

AdrianChadd/EmbeddedDevices

2011-05-17T05:40:03+00:00

AdrianChadd

2011-05-17T05:39:15+00:00

AdrianChadd/DonorsList

2011-05-17T05:38:50+00:00

IdeasPage

2011-05-17T03:02:31+00:00

Add a link to the Dwarf standards.

IdeasPage

2011-05-17T02:55:13+00:00

Add link to MDB. Remove llquantize link, it looks like there is a volunteer for that already.

DragonFly in Turin in September

2011-05-17T01:36:09+00:00

Ferruccio Zamuner will be doing a talk about DragonFly at the Italian Perl Workshop in Turin, in September. It’s a free event. He’s working on slides, and is looking for feedback on them (I assume once he has them.)

Device Mapper mirror page

2011-05-17T01:16:13+00:00

Adam Hoka, a student in Google Summer of Code for DragonFly, has created a wiki page for his device mapper mirroring project. Not a lot there, but I’m happy to see the reference.

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff

2011-05-16T23:09:12+00:00

add requested link to GNATS

Google I/O 2011: 5 things to keep watching - From Chromebooks to Arduino to bots: Mike Loukides examines I/O's big themes.

2011-05-16T21:34:41+00:00

Google I/O 2011 was marked by the Android Accessory Development Kit, the Chromebook vision and lots of robots. Mike Loukides examines the big I/O developments and their possible repercussions.

2011 Seeing Strong Private Sector Job Gains in Technology

2011-05-16T21:04:13+00:00

Great news in 2011: The jobs are coming back, and fast. Are you ready? In this blog, Trish Gray gives an IT career outlook for the rest of this year.

The future of technology and its impact on work - O'Reilly CIO Jonathan Reichental on how tech will shape the workforce.

2011-05-16T18:38:22+00:00

In this presentation, O'Reilly CIO Jonathan Reichental discusses a range of future technology trends and what it will mean for work and the workforce.

RailsConf 2011 is underway

2011-05-16T18:37:21+00:00

People from across the Ruby on Rails community are coming together in Baltimore this week for RailsConf 2011. Learn more about the event, check out the schedule, and watch this space for conference updates.

Percona's mini-conferences target the evolution of MySQL

2011-05-16T18:36:21+00:00

Percona's goal is to bring MySQL expertise out of the Silicon Valley and build community around MySQL in many locations.

RailsConf 2011 is Underway

2011-05-16T18:35:22+00:00

Marginalia is still alive in the digital world - Joep Kuijper on the Openmargin marginalia platform and iPad app.

2011-05-16T18:34:22+00:00

It's time to stop lamenting the death of marginalia at the hands of digital publishing and actually do something about it. Openmargin, a startup in the Netherlands, has done just that.

Four short links: 16 May 2011 - Minority Report, Embedded Strings, GNU Voice Software, and Nigerian Emotional Masters

2011-05-16T15:10:58+00:00

Entering the Minority Report Era -- a survey of technology inspired by or reminiscent of Minority Report, which came out ten years ago. (via Hacker News) Sally -- a tool for embedding strings in matrices, as used in machine learning. (via Matt Biddulph) GNU SIP Witch Released -- can be used to deploy private secure calling networks, whether stand-alone...

RailsConf 2011 is Underway - The Official Event for the Ruby on Rails Community

2011-05-16T15:09:58+00:00

Leaders from across the Ruby on Rails world are coming together this week at RailsConf in Baltimore, Maryland. Learn more about the event, and watch this space for updates from the conference and a livestream of the keynote presentations beginning Tuesday at 9am EDT.

WantedPorts

2011-05-16T14:18:19+00:00

Update libvirt status

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff

2011-05-16T09:46:20+00:00

WiFi

2011-05-16T09:43:48+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff

2011-05-16T09:24:32+00:00

[16 May] [10:07 utisoft@gmail.com] audio/rebot3 - 1.0.2

2011-05-16T09:23:52+00:00

Renames mp3 files using freedb or local CDDB

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff

2011-05-16T07:17:28+00:00

AdrianChadd

2011-05-16T06:17:02+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosHalStuff

2011-05-16T05:59:36+00:00

AdrianChadd/EmbeddedDevices

2011-05-16T04:20:48+00:00

AdrianChadd

2011-05-16T02:04:09+00:00

AdrianChadd/TpLink-Wr1043nd

2011-05-16T02:02:47+00:00

IdeasPage

2011-05-16T02:00:57+00:00

Add link to Bryan Cantrill's DTrace blog regarding llquantize

IdeasPage

2011-05-15T21:37:46+00:00

Description title

Apache

2011-05-15T20:14:44+00:00

link APACHE_PORT to bsd.apache.mk

bsd.apache.mk

2011-05-15T20:12:10+00:00

Lazy Reading for 2011/05/15

2011-05-15T19:02:35+00:00

This week: lots more reading!

Michael Lucas describes an extra layer of protection for when you can’t force public key usage on every SSH user.
Cool, but obscure Unix tools (via) The screenshots are all from a Mac… How many of the 24 tools listed are in pkgsrc/pkgsrc-wip? Almost all of them. (tpp sounds entertaining.)
NYCBUG, in addition to having a really fun convention, has been regularly posting audio of the presentations they host. The most recent is “William Baxter’s NYCBUG presentation on The Unix Method of Development Management”. See the BSD Events tweet for the download.
What Ubuntu means. (via)
Here’s a nice explanation of Intel’s new Tri-Gate design and with it, an incidental explanation of the processor market.
This ycombinator post about Hammer2 work has an in-depth comment from Venkatesh Srinivas about DragonFly’s network setup, memory allocator, and token use. (Ignore the trolling in other comments.)
Michael Lucas’s next No Starch Press book is Absolute OpenBSD, second edition.
Pictures and video are starting to show up from the just-passed BSDCan 2011. (via this and also thesjg on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
My first experience of The Internet was very similar to this. It should be bizarrely unfamiliar to anyone under 20 or so. (via) Get this: I typed ‘exit’ instead of just closing the browser window when I was done messing with it, because some habits cannot be broken.

[15 May] [18:10 pauls@utdallas.edu] security/barnyard2-sguil - 1.9_2

2011-05-15T18:57:54+00:00

An output system for Snort or Suricata that parses unified2 files

[15 May] [16:29 naylor.b.david@gmail.com] emulators/wine-gecko - 1.2.0

2011-05-15T18:57:54+00:00

Gecko Layout Engine for Wine (HTML support)

IdeasPage

2011-05-15T18:33:02+00:00

Update UFS possible improvements (consulted with kirk@)

IdeasPage

2011-05-15T18:08:35+00:00

Fix sysenter perforce link

IdeasPage

2011-05-15T17:06:42+00:00

Remove who from IPv6 userland cleanup, it's fixed in 9-current using utx.

IdeasPage

2011-05-15T17:05:10+00:00

typo, s/od/of/

AdrianChadd/AtherosWifiList

2011-05-15T14:09:03+00:00

FreeBSD10

2011-05-15T05:41:14+00:00

more of the same

FreeBSD10

2011-05-15T05:40:13+00:00

markup

Finding free memory

2011-05-15T00:29:09+00:00

If you’ve used ‘free’ on Linux to find available memory, Steve O’Hara-Smith has described the way to do the same thing on DragonFly.

SMP kernels on uniprocessor systems

2011-05-15T00:27:20+00:00

It looks like Sepherosa Ziehau is working on getting multiprocessor kernels able to boot on single-processor systems. This makes life a bit easier, since there’s only one kernel needed for any given processor. I don’t know if it’s in a finished state yet.

Haskell

2011-05-14T20:53:32+00:00

Add backdated news for GHC update.

Haskell

2011-05-14T20:15:00+00:00

Simplify page, add "project news"

[14 May] [17:50 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-haskell-platform - 2011.2.0.1

2011-05-14T19:34:45+00:00

The Haskell Platform

[14 May] [17:34 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-cabal-install - 0.10.2

2011-05-14T19:34:45+00:00

The command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage

ContribSoftware

2011-05-14T18:40:12+00:00

Don't highlight libf2c version since it will not be updated.

ContribSoftware

2011-05-14T17:53:26+00:00

Intel drivers are BSD licensed

IPv6Only

2011-05-14T16:09:42+00:00

Initial IPv6 information.

[14 May] [14:02 mm@FreeBSD.org] graphics/ImageMagick-nox11 - 6.6.7.10_1

2011-05-14T13:37:21+00:00

Image processing tools

Publishing News: How to improve ebook marginalia - Improving ebook note tools, ask for data and you'll get it, the ABA partners with On Demand Books

2011-05-14T05:05:06+00:00

Pete Meyers suggests ways to improve ebook note-taking tools, publishers can actually get consumer data from Apple, and the American Booksellers Association wants its member stores to have Espresso Book Machines.

Search Notes: Trying to understand Facebook's whisper campaign - Facebook's PR gaffe, the Chromebook debuts, and dreams of text-free searching.

2011-05-14T05:04:06+00:00

In the latest Search Notes: A look at the curious campaign against Google's Social Circle, the Chromebook is an I/O highlight, and Google Goggles hints at a new kind of search.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-14T05:02:12+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-14T04:59:42+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-14T04:58:22+00:00

IvanVoras/BSDLUA

2011-05-14T03:26:45+00:00

IvanVoras/BSDLUA

2011-05-14T03:17:26+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-14T03:13:55+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-14T03:12:01+00:00

IvanVoras/BSDLUA

2011-05-14T03:11:27+00:00

IvanVoras

2011-05-14T03:09:40+00:00

Intel vs. AMD: a speed shootout

2011-05-14T01:15:10+00:00

Matthew Dillon did some tests building both with an Intel i7 2600K and AMD PhenomIIx6 1090T CPU, and posted the results. He follows up with a note that the lower electricity cost of the Intel i7 makes it price-comparable with the AMD chip within a year and a half.

A project reminder for the idle

2011-05-14T01:10:39+00:00

For anyone who missed/couldn’t join Summer of Code, there’s still lists of potentially interesting projects, as Alex Hornung points out.

afs-server

2011-05-14T00:57:21+00:00

afs-server

2011-05-13T21:31:05+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-13T21:25:00+00:00

afs

2011-05-13T21:14:40+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-13T19:31:50+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-13T19:30:10+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-13T19:28:55+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-13T19:26:38+00:00

When judging visualizations, intent matters - Ben Fry on how context and audience shape visualizations.

2011-05-13T17:11:23+00:00

The field of visualization is sometimes narrowly perceived as data interpreted through imagery. Ben Fry, principal at Fathom, says visualizations actually share the same sort of nuance we see in writing — different styles, different intents, and different outcomes.

The secret is to bang the rocks together - Arduino is a building block for the world to come.

2011-05-13T17:10:23+00:00

Every so often a piece of technology can become a lever that lets people move the world, just a little bit. The Arduino is one of those levers.

Make Weekend Project: Rok-Bak Chair

2011-05-13T17:09:23+00:00

Subscribe to Make Magazine today.

Winners of the writable API competition - Announcing the three prize winners of the O'Reilly writable API competition.

2011-05-13T17:08:23+00:00

We ran a developer contest to see what folks could do with O'Reilly's new "writable" API. Today we're announcing the winners.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-13T16:15:48+00:00

Argh, schedule typo.

HFS

2011-05-13T15:57:21+00:00

Update and sort the references section

ISC_Cluster

2011-05-13T15:05:35+00:00

Add power info

Four short links: 13 May 2011 - Bogus Analysis x 2, API Classifications, and Expansive Text

2011-05-13T13:11:44+00:00

Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data (PDF) -- excellent article from Notices of the American Mathematical Society about the flaws in "value-added modelling", the latest fad whereby data about students' results in different classes are analysed to identify the effect of each teacher. People recognize that tests are an imperfect measure of educational success, but when sophisticated mathematics is...

201105DevSummit

2011-05-13T12:30:02+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-13T12:29:32+00:00

WebcamCompat

2011-05-13T12:19:41+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosWifiList

2011-05-13T10:17:03+00:00

Add my card on Adrian's request.

#Ebook Deal/Day: Canvas Pocket Reference - Only $5.49 (Save 50%) w/code DDCNV #HTML5

2011-05-13T09:17:49+00:00

"Canvas Pocket Reference" for only $5.49. You save 50%. Use discount code DDCNV to get your savings....

What did Microsoft get for $8.5 billion? - Microsoft shelled out a lot of cash for Skype. Here's what they'll get in return.

2011-05-13T05:12:16+00:00

Why would Microsoft pay so much for a company that doesn't have vastly superior technology or great financials? Here's five reasons.

Parsing a new Pew report: 3 ways the Internet is shaping healthcare - Key trends from the Pew Internet and Life Project's health information survey.

2011-05-13T05:11:16+00:00

New research from the Pew Internet and Life Project sheds light on how online users are gathering and sharing health data. Here's a look at three important trends revealed in the survey.

Strata Week: Data tools, data weapons, data stories - Another AVOS acquisition, the political power of data, and data's storytelling prowess.

2011-05-13T05:10:16+00:00

In the latest Strata Week: An AVOS acquisition hints at what's to come, a ranking tool reveals data's intimidation factor, and a look at how scientific papers might evolve.

file(1): Import 5.07 (christos 20110512)

2011-05-13T03:57:46+00:00

postfix(1): Import version 2.8.3 [tron 20110511]

2011-05-13T03:57:46+00:00

perfuse: Add the PUFFS RElay to FUSE library, which bridges the kernel level API for FUSE ...

2011-05-13T03:57:46+00:00

kerberos(8): Upgrade to Heimdal-1.5pre1. [elric 20110416]

2011-05-13T03:57:46+00:00

[13 May] [02:10 lichray@gmail.com] x11/stjerm - 0.14

2011-05-13T03:57:27+00:00

A GTK+-based quake-like terminal emulator

[13 May] [00:41 jhelfman@experts-exchange.com] mail/muttils - 1.0

2011-05-13T03:57:27+00:00

Python utilities for console mail clients (eg. mutt)

[13 May] [00:40 rpsfa@rit.edu] net-mgmt/nagios-check_email_delivery - 0.7.0

2011-05-13T03:57:27+00:00

Nagios Plugin to monitor your mail environment

New Port Manager

2011-05-13T03:25:02+00:00

DocIdeaList

2011-05-13T03:03:31+00:00

clusteradm/XenConfig

2011-05-13T02:07:24+00:00

Initial Create

Per-Thread Credentials

2011-05-13T01:42:21+00:00

Per-Thread Credentials

2011-05-13T01:40:10+00:00

Per-Thread Credentials

2011-05-13T01:35:48+00:00

Per-Thread Credentials

2011-05-13T01:34:51+00:00

Per-Thread_Credentials

2011-05-13T01:33:32+00:00

Per-Thread Credentials

2011-05-13T01:32:58+00:00

MatthewFleming

2011-05-13T01:32:12+00:00

Per-Thread_Credentials

2011-05-13T01:31:04+00:00

Per-Thread_Credentials

2011-05-13T01:26:55+00:00

Per-Thread_Credentials

2011-05-13T01:24:37+00:00

More on Hammer design

2011-05-13T01:17:21+00:00

I mentioned it before, but Matthew Dillon’s updated his Hammer document, and posted about it. Read on, especially if you like extremely complex plans.

Edit: first link fixed, plus there’s a followup.

Some new pkgsrc reports

2011-05-13T01:12:36+00:00

I finished two builds of pkgsrc-2011Q1 on DragonFly; the reports are available. The only real breakage is security/heimdal. There’s a patch for that, though.

FreeBSD10

2011-05-12T21:04:06+00:00

10.x dumdidudidum

IdeasPage

2011-05-12T20:14:38+00:00

FreeBSD9/TODO

2011-05-12T19:52:59+00:00

Silly ideas from the 10.x sessions

IdeasPage

2011-05-12T19:41:18+00:00

Clarify VFS namecache proposal and add link

IdeasPage

2011-05-12T19:25:24+00:00

Clarify the C-FFS suggestion and fix broken links

FreeBSD9/TODO

2011-05-12T19:22:10+00:00

Developer Week in Review: Oracle sends Hudson on its way - Can Hudson and Jenkins get together now? Washington checks in on location. And why are you so stressed?

2011-05-12T19:11:57+00:00

Oracle casts another piece of Sun from their portfolio, Apple and Google defend themselves from big-brother accusations made by, um, Big Brother, and it turns out you probably have a pretty sweet job, after all.

ePayments Week: Can check-in services prove their value? - Teens yawn at check-ins, how the Skype deal helps Facebook, and thoughts on payment systems set free.

2011-05-12T19:10:57+00:00

A recent survey questions whether the teen market has any interest in check-ins. Also, Facebook gets access to Skype through its investor Microsoft, and some thoughts on taking Facebook Credits and Apple's payment system beyond their walled gardens.

IdeasPage

2011-05-12T19:04:42+00:00

Fix mismatch in MDFS entry

[12 May] [16:52 vanilla@FreeBSD.org] lang/v8 - 3.2.8

2011-05-12T18:58:12+00:00

Google\'s open source JavaScript engine

IdeasPage

2011-05-12T18:54:58+00:00

Add reference our HFS Wiki

HFS

2011-05-12T18:41:24+00:00

FreeBSD9/TODO

2011-05-12T18:31:08+00:00

9.0 open items, yadda yadda yadda

PedroGiffuni

2011-05-12T18:21:38+00:00

Add the documents for my EuroBSDCon 2008 talk.

3 ways to improve ebook note taking - It's time for ebooks to evolve beyond their basic note-taking tools.

2011-05-12T16:35:32+00:00

Ebook note-taking needs attention. The upside is that the ereader company that builds the best tools could also create a competitive advantage.

Re-engineering the data stack for speed - Acunu is taking a new approach to data storage. Here's what that means for developers.

2011-05-12T16:34:32+00:00

Acunu CEO Tim Moreton talks about how his company has redesigned the data stack from the ground up, and what the resulting speed boost might mean for big data developers.

HFS

2011-05-12T16:34:20+00:00

Correct the last FreeBSD version number that was known to work with HFS

HFS

2011-05-12T16:27:02+00:00

HFS

2011-05-12T16:25:46+00:00

Provide a description and some historic information

Android programming: Understanding the activity life cycle

2011-05-12T15:42:18+00:00

This excerpt from Learning Android helps you understand how activities and the Activity Manager are used in Android programming. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers:Apache: Redirect to language path by browser language settingsSome use cases for SimpleDB with Amazon EC2Can you copyright an XML schema?Are there any full-featured open source alternatives to Adobe Flash Builder? Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

Four short links: 12 May 2011 - One-Click Zeroed Down Under, Piracy, One Site To Rule Them All, and English Language

2011-05-12T15:39:18+00:00

Telsta Scores Patent Win over Amazon (ZDNet) -- The delegate of the Commissioner of Patents, Ed Knock, found this week that Amazon's 1-click buy facility "lacks novelty [and] an inventive step", making Amazon's claim unpatentable. The Final Answer for What To Do To Prevent Piracy (Jeff Vogel) -- His advice is to do the minimum to encourage people to...

IdeasPage

2011-05-12T15:30:24+00:00

Add some extra ideas for the Dtrace project.

201105DevSummit/FileSystems

2011-05-12T15:26:55+00:00

Sound

2011-05-12T14:56:02+00:00

Reference my latest attempts to get rid of some GPL'd headers

201105DevSummit/Networking

2011-05-12T13:06:27+00:00

Attach slides

#Ebook Deal/Day: DNS and BIND on IPv6 - Only $8.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDDV6

2011-05-12T08:43:15+00:00

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201105DevSummit

2011-05-12T04:03:01+00:00

[12 May] [01:19 jjachuf@gmail.com] devel/py-rope - 0.9.3

2011-05-12T03:50:18+00:00

Rope is a python refactoring library

Chromium on DragonFly: success!

2011-05-12T02:55:07+00:00

Thanks to Matthias Rampke, Chromium builds on DragonFly. He’s posted with notes and even a screenshot, and has a working i386 binary.

Remember to enable deduplication

2011-05-12T02:52:25+00:00

I didn’t think of this, but I needed it: if you have an older Hammer system that now can perform deduplication because you upgraded to DragonFly 2.10, make sure to add it to the configuration for that file system, or else it won’t run.

AdrianChadd/AtherosWifiList

2011-05-12T02:48:47+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosWifiList

2011-05-12T02:47:51+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosWifiList

2011-05-12T02:45:51+00:00

201105DevSummit/Clusteradm

2011-05-12T01:37:16+00:00

spell fix

201105DevSummit/FileSystems

2011-05-11T21:59:03+00:00

ContribSoftware

2011-05-11T21:53:07+00:00

netcat have been updated to 4.9.

201105DevSummit/FileSystems

2011-05-11T21:40:26+00:00

201105DevSummit/FileSystems

2011-05-11T21:28:41+00:00

ContributorsGroup

2011-05-11T20:58:33+00:00

ContribSoftware

2011-05-11T19:23:08+00:00

Note less and netcat updates.

ContribSoftware

2011-05-11T19:14:55+00:00

Add GNU grep to GPLv3 software

201105DevSummit/FileSystems

2011-05-11T17:31:35+00:00

201105DevSummit/FileSystems

2011-05-11T17:29:51+00:00

201105DevSummit/Networking

2011-05-11T16:44:23+00:00

Attach slides

201105DevSummit/Networking

2011-05-11T16:38:14+00:00

Not so fast: assessing achievements and barriers at a Massachusetts Health IT conference

2011-05-11T15:42:18+00:00

Both the bright lights of success and the mire of gridlock were held up for examination this week at the conference Health Information Technology Improving Healthcare and the Economy. A report on meaningful use, data exchange, jobs in health IT, and more.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-11T15:42:06+00:00

201105DevSummit/PCI

2011-05-11T15:41:44+00:00

Inside the E-Wars: It's a Braver New Digital World Than Ever Before

2011-05-11T15:41:18+00:00

I've been a writer in my heart since I was old enough to hold a pencil and a professional writer for nearly 20 years (writing as William Stanek and Robert Stanek). Over the years many would-be writers have asked...

[11 May] [11:01 itetcu@FreeBSD.org] net-im/skype-devel - 2.2.0.25

2011-05-11T14:00:20+00:00

P2P VoIP software, development version

201105DevSummit/Ports

2011-05-11T13:26:40+00:00

add flz talk

201105DevSummit/Virtualization

2011-05-11T12:20:09+00:00

Added Attendees

#Ebook Deal/Day: R in a Nutshell - Only $17.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDRN5

2011-05-11T08:47:38+00:00

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[11 May] [02:42 perl@FreeBSD.org] www/p5-CatalystX-SimpleLogin - 0.14

2011-05-11T04:05:29+00:00

Provide a simple Login controller which can be reused

IdeasPage

2011-05-11T03:06:50+00:00

Provide a description for HFS+ port

ContribSoftware

2011-05-11T02:34:56+00:00

ru@ has recently updated awk

ContribSoftware

2011-05-11T02:27:30+00:00

libf2c and libobjc are no longer in head

PedroGiffuni

2011-05-11T02:19:21+00:00

ContributorsGroup

2011-05-11T02:08:47+00:00

SSDs and how to portion them

2011-05-11T01:11:03+00:00

There’s been some discussion on buying a SSD and how to match it with a hard disk, and/or swapcache. Follow the thread for more details.

Interview: Protecting patient privacy rights in a wired world

2011-05-10T22:44:32+00:00

Andy Oram interviews Dr. Deborah Peel of the Patient Privacy Rights Coalition about the conference "Getting IT Right: Protecting Patient Privacy Rights in a Wired World."

Strata Online Conference - O'Reilly Strata Online Conference, Startups and Disruptors, May 25, 2011, 9 - 11:30am PDT

2011-05-10T22:43:32+00:00

Ignite at Google I/O - Attend Ignite Google I/O in person or watch it live online.

2011-05-10T22:43:32+00:00

Ignite takes place at Google I/O on Tue. May 10 at 5 PM PDT in Room 11 at Moscone West. If you can't be there, you can watch live on the I/O Live site.

201105DevSummit/Networking

2011-05-10T21:32:46+00:00

#Ebook Deal/Day: Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Ed. - Only $17.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDLNX

2011-05-10T17:46:43+00:00

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How to use the Android NDK to improve performance

2011-05-10T17:42:57+00:00

The Android Native Development Kit, or NDK, is an add-on to SDK that helps you integrate native code within your Android application. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers:Are there any full-featured open source alternatives to Adobe Flash Builder?How to "fix" the copy address feature in Mac OS X's mail clientSome use cases for SimpleDB with Amazon EC2How to crawl followers on Twitter to approximate potential influence Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

Announcing Android Open - The first Android Open conference will be held Oct. 9-11 in San Francisco.

2011-05-10T17:41:57+00:00

This October, O'Reilly is launching Android Open, the first "big tent" Android-only conference. Our goal is to give all the Android players a place to become a community.

Four short links: 10 May 2011 - Car Monitoring with iPhone, Multitasking, Privacy, and Cool Unix Tools

2011-05-10T17:40:57+00:00

ODB to iPhone Converter -- hardware to connect to your car's onboard computer and display it on an iPhone app. (via Imran Ali) Multitasking Brains (Wired) -- interesting pair of studies: old brains have trouble recovering from distractions; hardcore multitaskers have trouble focusing. (via Stormy Peters) Social Privacy -- Danah Boyd draft paper on teens' attitudes to online privacy....

Process kills developer passion - Best practices sound good in isolation, but they can suck the life out of developers.

2011-05-10T17:39:57+00:00

The software industry is now full of "best practices," and many of them make sense when considered in isolation. But when you lump them all on the backs of developers, you end up with dispirited bureaucrats/bean counters.

201105DevSummit/Ports

2011-05-10T14:24:58+00:00

Add db

201105DevSummit

2011-05-10T13:36:43+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-10T12:35:44+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-10T12:32:06+00:00

OpenBSD Founder: No FBI Backdoor

2011-05-10T10:39:13+00:00

That's the conclusion of OpenBSD founder and project leader Theo de Raadt, who reviewed code following a claim earlier this month that the FBI had planted a secret backdoor in the OpenBSD IPsec stack.

201105DevSummit/Capsicum

2011-05-10T08:20:12+00:00

Add David's e-mail address

201105DevSummit/Capsicum

2011-05-10T08:19:50+00:00

Add Mike Karels

201105DevSummit/Capsicum

2011-05-10T08:18:32+00:00

Add David O'Brien from Juniper

201105DevSummit/Capsicum

2011-05-10T08:16:39+00:00

Add Kris Moore to Capsicum attendee list; unfortunately, I won't be making it after all

201105DevSummit/Virtualization

2011-05-10T05:00:53+00:00

Added Attendee

201105DevSummit/Ports

2011-05-10T02:51:00+00:00

Add wxa

[10 May] [03:04 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-blaze-builder-enumerator - 0.2.0.1

2011-05-10T02:27:52+00:00

Enumeratees for the incremental conversion of builders to bytestrings

libgnuregex goes away

2011-05-10T01:02:28+00:00

Thanks to John Marino, the one dependency needing libgnuregex is gone, as is the software itself. I didn’t even know libgnuregex was there.

Really old systems and libpthread

2011-05-10T00:59:35+00:00

If you have a really old DragonFly system, meaning you’ve been upgrading it since version… 1.8 (I think?), you may have libpthread linked to libc_r instead of libxu. This means that if you have a system that old, you will now need to set THREAD_LIB or just recompile your pkgsrc programs on your next upgrade to something after DragonFly 2.10. I don’t think this is going to apply to a lot of people.

(I hope I got the lib details right…)

201105DevSummit/Virtualization

2011-05-09T22:27:06+00:00

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-09T19:45:49+00:00

Add another Guru Medidation error

[09 May] [18:52 itetcu@FreeBSD.org] net-im/skype - 2.1.0.81,1

2011-05-09T18:59:51+00:00

P2P VoIP software

[09 May] [17:36 itetcu@FreeBSD.org] net-im/skype20 - 2.0.0.72,1

2011-05-09T18:59:51+00:00

P2P VoIP software

[09 May] [17:21 itetcu@FreeBSD.org] net-im/skype12 - 1.2.0.18

2011-05-09T18:59:51+00:00

Legacy version P2P VoIP software

Android Open Conference - October 9-11, 2011 San Francisco, CA

2011-05-09T17:42:57+00:00

BrightScope liberates financial advisor data - SEC and FINRA data about financial advisors is now indexed by search engines.

2011-05-09T17:42:57+00:00

BrightScope has unlocked government data on financial advisors and made the information publicly available. Now, anyone can research a potential money manager.

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-09T15:53:15+00:00

Add description for VT-x error

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-09T15:35:50+00:00

Set AIO bug to not reproducible (tested by alexander eichner)

SummerOfCode2011Projects

2011-05-09T15:27:57+00:00

Add link to SOC2011IlyaPutsikau

SOC2011IlyaPutsikau

2011-05-09T15:25:40+00:00

IlyaPutsikau

2011-05-09T15:22:08+00:00

Why the term "data science" is flawed but useful - Counterpoints to four common data science criticisms.

2011-05-09T15:09:27+00:00

While formal boundaries and professional criteria for "data science" remain undefined, here's why we should keep using the term.

Four short links: 9 May 2011 - iPhone Anonymity, Fabbed Souvenirs, Perl+Go=Campher, and Javascript Slides

2011-05-09T15:07:27+00:00

UDID DeAnonymization -- a developer exposed an API that connected UDID to other information such as Facebook ID. The API has been closed, but it remains true that your iPhone has a primary key and darn near every app developer has a database linking your UDID to other details about you. Apple requires this to not be public, but...

#Ebook Deal/Day: Windows PowerShell Cookbook, 2nd Ed. - Only $21.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDW2K

2011-05-09T13:46:11+00:00

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[09 May] [11:32 bsam@FreeBSD.org] databases/py-sqlkit - 0.9.4

2011-05-09T10:55:06+00:00

A standalone program to browse and edit data

[09 May] [11:16 tota@FreeBSD.org] devel/astah-community - 6.4

2011-05-09T10:55:06+00:00

A Java/UML Object-Oriented Design Tool

[09 May] [08:40 sunpoet@FreeBSD.org] chinese/py-cconv - 0.5.0

2011-05-09T10:55:06+00:00

Python wrapper for chinese/cconv

[09 May] [08:26 sunpoet@FreeBSD.org] chinese/php5-cconv - 0.6.4

2011-05-09T10:55:06+00:00

PHP wrapper for chinese/cconv

[09 May] [08:25 sunpoet@FreeBSD.org] chinese/p5-cconv - 0.6.1

2011-05-09T10:55:06+00:00

Perl wrapper for chinese/cconv

[09 May] [08:17 stephon@pixnet.tw] mail/p5-SES - 1.00

2011-05-09T10:55:06+00:00

Perl module of Amazon Simple Email Services

[09 May] [04:58 perl@FreeBSD.org] www/p5-CatalystX-REPL - 0.04

2011-05-09T07:15:49+00:00

Read-Eval-Print-Loop for debugging your Catalyst application

[09 May] [04:44 perl@FreeBSD.org] devel/p5-Carp-REPL - 0.15

2011-05-09T07:15:49+00:00

Read-Eval-Print-Loop on die and/or warn

201105DevSummit/Ports

2011-05-09T05:53:41+00:00

Add short talk by plosher

201105DevSummit/Virtualization

2011-05-09T02:38:36+00:00

Added what I am interested in discussing.

[09 May] [00:54 perl@FreeBSD.org] www/p5-CatalystX-Profile - 0.01

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Profile your Catalyst application with Devel::NYTProf

[09 May] [00:09 perl@FreeBSD.org] www/p5-CatalystX-InjectComponent - 0.024

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Inject components into your Catalyst application

[08 May] [23:22 perl@FreeBSD.org] www/p5-CatalystX-LeakChecker - 0.06

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Debug memory leaks in Catalyst applications

[08 May] [21:57 perl@FreeBSD.org] www/p5-Catalyst-ActionRole-ACL - 0.05

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

User role-based authorization action class

[08 May] [20:31 haskell@FreeBSD.org] graphics/hs-svgcairo - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the libsvg-cairo library

[08 May] [20:29 haskell@FreeBSD.org] graphics/hs-soegtk - 0.11.1

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

GUI functions as used in the book "The Haskell School of Expression"

[08 May] [20:26 haskell@FreeBSD.org] graphics/hs-cairo - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the Cairo library

[08 May] [20:25 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-transformers-docs - 0.2.2.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Documentation for transformers

[08 May] [20:24 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-text - 0.11.0.6

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

An efficient packed Unicode text type

[08 May] [20:22 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-syb - 0.3

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Scrap Your Boilerplate

[08 May] [20:21 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-stm - 2.2.0.1

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Software Transactional Memory

[08 May] [20:20 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-parallel - 3.1.0.1

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Parallel programming library

[08 May] [20:19 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-mtl-docs - 2.0.1.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Documentation for mtl

[08 May] [20:18 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-mtl - 2.0.1.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Monad transformer library

[08 May] [20:17 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-haskell-src - 1.0.1.4

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Support for manipulating Haskell source code

[08 May] [20:16 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-gtk2hs-buildtools - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Tools to build the Gtk2Hs suite of User Interface Libraries

[08 May] [20:15 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-glib - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the GLIB library for Gtk2Hs

[08 May] [20:12 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-glade - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the glade library

[08 May] [20:11 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-gio - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the GIO

[08 May] [20:09 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-gconf - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the GNOME configuration database system

[08 May] [20:08 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-enumerator - 0.4.7

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Reliable, high-performance processing with left-fold enumerators

[08 May] [20:07 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-cmdargs - 0.6.8

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Command line argument processing

[08 May] [20:05 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-blaze-builder - 0.2.1.4

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Efficient buffered output

[08 May] [20:04 haskell@FreeBSD.org] devel/hs-HUnit - 1.2.2.3

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Unit testing framework for Haskell

[08 May] [20:01 haskell@FreeBSD.org] archivers/hs-tar - 0.3.1.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Haskell library for reading/writing/manipulating tar archives

[08 May] [19:47 haskell@FreeBSD.org] x11-toolkits/hs-vte - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the VTE library

[08 May] [19:46 haskell@FreeBSD.org] x11-toolkits/hs-pango - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the Pango text rendering engine

[08 May] [19:46 haskell@FreeBSD.org] x11-toolkits/hs-gtksourceview2 - 0.12.2

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the GtkSourceView library

[08 May] [19:45 haskell@FreeBSD.org] x11-toolkits/hs-gtkglext - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the GTK+ OpenGL Extension

[08 May] [19:45 haskell@FreeBSD.org] x11-toolkits/hs-gtk - 0.12.0

2011-05-08T23:58:32+00:00

Binding to the Gtk+ graphical user interface library

201105DevSummit/Networking

2011-05-08T19:35:55+00:00

Correct room. Add link.

201105DevSummit/Networking

2011-05-08T19:25:07+00:00

Lazy Reading for 2011/05/08

2011-05-08T19:16:24+00:00

Let’s see, what do I have now…

Did you know we just released DragonFly 2.1? Neither did I.
The AppleCrate II (][?), a set of parallel Apple //e systems. It makes me so happy. I love to see how ~~simple~~ uncomplex the old Apple systems were, almost at the level of programmable logic controllers today. I was struck by the fact that the Apple //e requires less than 5 volts, which means it could run off a USB port. (via lots of places)
Removing the internet’s relics: a call to kill FTP now that it’s 40 years old. There’s no easy alternative, though…
20 years of Adobe Photoshop. (via) Obviously that’s not found on any BSD platform, but almost every raster-based image editor out there tries to emulate Photoshop in some way, on every platform. It casts a long shadow. Plus, I remember the Photoshop 2.0 loading screen, so now I feel old.
Is tech blogging becoming worse? i.e not really tech any more? I’ve mumbled about this before, since this site is arguably a tech blog. Sites tend to diversify and lose focus to grow their audience. You can see the same pattern in the magazine market, back when there was a magazine market. You don’t have to worry about the Digest – I’m targeting BSD users, so I’m totally not growing my audience! (Joking, joking. Readership is staying even to slightly up, over the last while.)

On a separate note that has nothing to do with DragonFly: if you live outside the United States and have a postcard handy, can you send it to “St. John Neumann School, 31 Empire Blvd., Rochester, NY 14609 USA”? My daughters’ school is collecting international postcards this month as part of their geography lesson. It doesn’t have to have anything specific, other than be interesting to 8-year-olds.

[08 May] [16:04 nox@FreeBSD.org] multimedia/linux_v4l2wrapper-kmod - 1.0

2011-05-08T18:32:47+00:00

Linux compatibility layer - V4L2 ioctl handler

Feeding the community fuels advances at Red Hat and JBoss

2011-05-08T13:43:37+00:00

Red Hat's usual modus operandi is the precise inverse of most companies based on open source. This drives what I heard at Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, solid progress along the lines laid out by Red Hat and JBoss in previous years.

AdrianChadd/AtherosWifiList

2011-05-08T10:09:54+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosWifiList

2011-05-08T10:05:09+00:00

AdrianChadd/AtherosWifiList

2011-05-08T08:21:54+00:00

ipf goes away

2011-05-07T23:51:33+00:00

ipfilter has now been removed from DragonFly, by Sascha Wildner. We now have “only” ipfw2 and pf for software firewalls.

GDB update

2011-05-07T23:49:49+00:00

John Marino has updated the GNU Debugger (GDB) from version 7.0 to version 7.2. The lengthy commit message describes how surprisingly complex the upgrade proved to be.

[07 May] [20:02 g.veniamin@googlemail.com] multimedia/mediadownloader - 1.5.0

2011-05-07T22:55:33+00:00

Search, watch and download from Google Image and YouTube

[07 May] [18:30 bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de] graphics/povray37 - 3.7.0.r3

2011-05-07T18:59:23+00:00

Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

[07 May] [16:14 phil@philpep.org] dns/adsuck - 2.3

2011-05-07T18:59:23+00:00

DNS relay for ad blocking

FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE now available (detailed)

2011-05-07T15:54:17+00:00

Following one beta and five release candidates (RC’s), FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE has been made availabe earlier this week by iXsystems, the corporate sponser behind the FreeNAS Project. The last stable release was FreeNAS 0.7.2 (Sabanda), released mid-October 2010. FreeNAS is a … Continue reading →

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-07T14:54:17+00:00

Update guru meditation details

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-07T14:52:03+00:00

Add link to bugreport

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-07T14:50:35+00:00

Update Guru Meditation bug and add another one

Bugathons

2011-05-07T14:25:14+00:00

Updates

201105DevSummit/Ports

2011-05-07T13:57:39+00:00

Add BenL

ContribSoftware

2011-05-07T11:45:48+00:00

zoneinfo, libdialog

ShmSoc2011

2011-05-07T09:09:09+00:00

#Ebook Deal/Day: Developing Android Apps with Adobe AIR - Only $15.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDAAR

2011-05-07T08:36:12+00:00

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[07 May] [06:48 bf@FreeBSD.org] math/R-cran-SuppDists - 1.1.8

2011-05-07T06:38:10+00:00

Supplementary distributions and RNG for R

GSoC: kernel file descriptor event subsystem

2011-05-07T02:53:55+00:00

And here’s one last writeup/introduction for Google Summer of Code projects on DragonFly: kevent part 2. (Apparently school exams prevented this from being written sooner.)

EuroBSDCon 2011: Netherlands

2011-05-07T02:51:34+00:00

The 10th EuroBSDCon is happening in Maarssen, The Netherlands, October 6th through the 9th. The call for proposals is up until the end of the month.

[06 May] [23:55 swills@FreeBSD.org] textproc/rubygem-sass - 3.1.1

2011-05-06T23:46:52+00:00

Sass is an extension of CSS3

Four short links: 6 May 2011 - In-Line Computing, What Price All The Books?, Android SIM Toolkit, and Small Manufacturing Grows

2011-05-06T21:11:23+00:00

Raspberry Pi -- the creator of the game Elite has made an inline computer the size of a thumb drive--it plugs into an HDMI cable on one end and USB on the other. 700MHz CPU, OpenGL, 1080p-capable, running Ubuntu. Pricetag: $25. The mission is to supply them to schools. A Budget for Babel (Tim Carmody) -- What would you...

Improving the landscape for organic startups - A congressional committee will hear a "crowdfunding exemption" proposal next week.

2011-05-06T21:10:23+00:00

Next week, Sherwood Neiss will testify in favor of a small offerings exemption for investments, which could spark a revolution in grassroots entrepreneurship.

Make Weekend Project: The Mystery Switch

2011-05-06T21:09:23+00:00

Subscribe to Make Magazine today.

201105DevSummit/FileSystems

2011-05-06T19:18:18+00:00

Couldn't get a hold of KirkMcKusick (3 tries) so I'm just adding myself. Hope thats not a problem.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-06T17:56:41+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-06T16:24:17+00:00

2 makers, 2 robots, 2 visions - An errand car and a ball-shaped 'bot illustrate Maker Faire's robotic diversity.

2011-05-06T13:38:37+00:00

In advance of the upcoming Maker Faire Bay Area, here's a look at two vastly different robotics projects: one aims to change the world while the other wants to roll around (and inspire some healthy creativity).

Search Notes: The high cost of search market share - Why being a default search provider matters, personalized Google News, Bin Laden and search spikes

2011-05-06T13:37:37+00:00

In the latest Search Notes: Bing is going all out to claim more market share, Google News' personalization features could create an echo chamber, and Osama Bin Laden's death creates a search frenzy.

Collaborative genetics, part 5: Next steps for genetic commons

2011-05-06T13:36:37+00:00

The final installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on the open-source sharing of genetic research, looks at what Sage Bionetworks and its friends need to do.

Publishing News: Week in Review - Digital text and learning, improving the browsing experience, Amazon's publishing projects

2011-05-06T13:35:37+00:00

In the latest Publishing News: A study found digital text might disrupt cognitive mapping, digital browsing solutions are discussed in Pete Meyers' latest "Breaking the Page" installment, and Amazon launches its fourth imprint.

Hammer and the future

2011-05-06T01:59:07+00:00

Matthew Dillon’s been thinking about Hammer, and how to implement clustering well enough to work as a sort of RAID replacement. He’s written up a document describing his plans. Some highlights:

writable history snapshots
quotas and accounting
live rebuilds of data from mirrors
and the same history, mirroring, and snapshots as before.

It’s going to be a while before this “Hammer 2″ becomes a finished product, though, so don’t count on it for the next release.

BSD Magazine for May

2011-05-06T01:11:23+00:00

The May issue of BSD Magazine is out. The cover says “Embedded FreeBSD” as a continuation of last month’s theme, but there’s really a wide mix in there. Of course, there’s a DragonFly news section from me, talking about 2.10. I’ll point at the zsh article that opens the magazine, since every zsh user I’ve met talks about zsh rapturously. Also, the iXSystems ad on page 2 has a rather fun illustration…

[05 May] [20:45 thierry@FreeBSD.org] textproc/kn-aspell - 0.01.1

2011-05-05T23:35:23+00:00

Aspell Kannada dictionary

201105DevSummit/Capsicum

2011-05-05T21:48:52+00:00

Add Rene Ladan

Collaborative genetics, part 4: Private practice, how to respect the patient

2011-05-05T21:13:24+00:00

The fourth installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on the open-source sharing of genetic research, focuses in on the rights of patients and how they want researchers to treat their data.

Interactive mapping and open data illustrate excess federal property - WhiteHouse.gov puts data to use in its new federal property map.

2011-05-05T21:13:24+00:00

A new interactive feature posted at WhiteHouse.gov uses open data to visualize excess federal property. The full dataset is also available for download in a structured format.

Strata Week: Will data make stock exchanges unnecessary? - Data could disrupt the stock world, how stolen data is sold, and geography data's predictive power

2011-05-05T21:08:23+00:00

Will big data kill the stock exchange? That question was recently explored by Andy Kessler. Plus: How recent security breaches could shape the black market and a look at how "island biogeography" predicted Osama Bin Laden's location.

How many imprints does Amazon run? - As Amazon launches a romance imprint, here's a look at some of its other publishing efforts.

2011-05-05T21:07:23+00:00

Wondering if Amazon is a competitor to publishers? Take a look at the company's growing number of imprints and publishing projects.

ePayments Week: Report says developers chill on Android - A report says Android dev interest is stalling, Facebook Credits gets noticed, PayPal buys another real-world service

2011-05-05T21:06:24+00:00

A report says developers are holding back on Android, put off by fragmentation in the platform and a disappointing uptake in Android tablets. Also, Facebook Credits gets attention and we take a look at PayPal's latest purchase.

201105DevSummit/Documentation

2011-05-05T20:29:03+00:00

Add Rene Ladan to the working group. While here, add the building and room now that it is known, too.

MateuszKocielski

2011-05-05T20:21:21+00:00

NetperfClusterReservations

2011-05-05T20:14:51+00:00

201105DevSummit/Virtualization

2011-05-05T19:25:18+00:00

Add Attendees

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-05T19:24:16+00:00

Add another bug

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-05-05T19:15:37+00:00

Add another bug

[05 May] [16:10 vivek@khera.org] mail/p5-Mail-OpenDKIM - 3186

2011-05-05T18:58:02+00:00

Perl interface to OpenDKIM C library

201105DevSummit

2011-05-05T18:16:15+00:00

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2011-05-05T18:13:15+00:00

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Work with us - O'Reilly job opportunities - creative, sales, marketing, operations, and more

2011-05-05T18:12:38+00:00

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Four short links: 5 May 2011 - MongoDB for Guardian, Visualization Book, Mobile CouchDB, and Fast Approximate String Retrieval

2011-05-05T18:11:38+00:00

Why We Chose MongoDB for Guardian.co.uk (SlideShare) -- they're using MongoDB's flexible schema, as schema upgrades were pain in their previous system (Oracle). I think of these as the database equivalent of dynamic typing in languages like Perl and Ruby. (via Paul Rowe) Solving Problems with Visual Analytics -- This book is the result of a community effort of...

Softly buzzing phones could yield better augmented reality - Foursquare's Dennis Crowley on subtle forms of augmented reality.

2011-05-05T18:10:38+00:00

Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, says subtle interactions — like a buzzing phone — could lead to better augmented reality experiences than those provided through cameras and screens.

Use cases for SimpleDB with Amazon EC2

2011-05-05T18:09:38+00:00

In this excerpt from Programming Amazon EC2, we look at problems that SimpleDB can help resolve. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers:How to "Fix" the "Copy Address" feature in Mac OS X's Mail clientDocBook Tutorial: DocBook to PDF with Xcode and XMLLINTHow to gather geographic location dataTop 10 Tips for the iPad 2 Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-05T16:06:40+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-05T13:40:11+00:00

201105DevSummit/PCI

2011-05-05T12:36:58+00:00

MateuszKocielski

2011-05-05T07:37:54+00:00

Initial version of the homepage

SummerOfCode2011Projects

2011-05-05T07:29:46+00:00

Added link to the TESLA gsoc project

[05 May] [03:54 fw@moov.de] security/p5-String-MkPasswd - 0.03

2011-05-05T06:46:33+00:00

A random password generator

ContributorsGroup

2011-05-05T06:18:38+00:00

Add MateuszKocielski for GSoC.

A start on TRIM support

2011-05-05T02:36:49+00:00

Tim Bisson has inital TRIM support working for UFS. His lengthy posting talks about how it’s done, and shows how much it speeds things up. He’s looking for testers, so please try it if you have a SSD. (The usual warnings apply about testing code that specifically deletes things.)

For those not familiar with TRIM in SSD context, here’s the least annoying page with an explanation that I could find in a few seconds of Googling.

[05 May] [02:50 freebsd@beardz.net] devel/p5-POE-Component-Syndicator - 0.01

2011-05-05T02:26:58+00:00

A POE component base class which implements the Observer pattern

[05 May] [02:16 fw@moov.de] www/encode-explorer - 5.0

2011-05-05T02:26:58+00:00

A PHP script to browse, create folders, upload files etc

[05 May] [00:43 koma2@lovepeers.org] archivers/unzip-iconv - 6.0_1

2011-05-05T02:26:58+00:00

Unzip with iconv patches

OSBR: Technology Entrepreneurship

2011-05-05T00:23:00+00:00

The May 2011 issue of the Open Source Business Resource is “Technology Entrepreneurship“. You’ll want to read this because it’s all people who are their own boss, using software they can modify themselves. Seductively nerdy/utopian! They’re continuing the topic for next month’s issue, so if that describes you and you like writing, here’s your chance.

[04 May] [21:19 kalten@gmx.at] games/fairymax - 4.8Q

2011-05-04T23:31:21+00:00

Chess engine (e.g. xboard) for shatranj, courier chess, ...

201105DevSummit

2011-05-04T21:42:56+00:00

Another cancellation.

FreeBSD Events Update (EuroBSDCon, BSDCan, NYCBUG, SCALE)

2011-05-04T21:23:26+00:00

Below some links, resources and updates for future and past (Free)BSD conferences: 1. BSDCan 2011 will be held this month (11-13 May). Links: Registration – Schedule - Main Page 2. The EuroBSDCon 2011 website has gone live. This year it will be the … Continue reading →

201105DevSummit

2011-05-04T21:17:18+00:00

First cut at a schedule for the devsummit talk track.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-04T21:08:07+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-04T21:07:00+00:00

FreeBSD on Amazon EC2 cluster compute, and the Cloud

2011-05-04T21:00:40+00:00

FreeBSD on Amazon EC2 Colin Percifal announced back in December 2010 that he had managed to make FreeBSD run on Amazon EC2. There were some quirks and some work-rounds needed, but it worked. FreeBSD ran only on the ‘small t1.micro’ instance, … Continue reading →

201105DevSummit

2011-05-04T20:42:14+00:00

Unable to attend.

Developer Week in Review - Germany gets a case of Mono, lots of mobile maneuvering, and Java junkies are jilted.

2011-05-04T18:12:38+00:00

Recently, Attachmate gave their US-based Mono developers the pink slip, there was much ado about mobile, and Chrome puts Java on the back burner.

Collaborative genetics, part 3: Dividing the pie, from research to patents

2011-05-04T18:12:38+00:00

The third installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on the open-source sharing of genetic research, explores the barriers that keep private companies and researchers from sharing their work.

Skimming on the digital side - How digital publications can make browsing easier.

2011-05-04T18:08:38+00:00

The use of strict print design elements in digital content locks readers into systems that aren't user friendly. A little rethinking can go a long way toward solving that problem.

Does digital text create a cognitive gap? - A study finds electronic text may disrupt learning techniques.

2011-05-04T18:07:38+00:00

Students and professors have anxiously anticipated the replacement of analog textbooks with digital options. As it turns out, however, current technology might actually hinder learning.

Four short links: 4 May 2011 - WYSIWYG HTML5 UIs, Hacker News, Real Time, and Web 2.0

2011-05-04T17:11:42+00:00

Maqetta -- open source (modified BSD) WYSIWYG HTML5 user interface editor from the Dojo project. (via Hacker News) Hacker News Analysis -- interesting to see relationship between number of posts, median score, and quality over time. Most interesting, though, was the relative popularity of different companies. (via Hacker News) Real Time All The Time (Emily Bell) -- Every news...

A Manhattan Project for online identity - A look at the White House's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.

2011-05-04T17:10:42+00:00

The U.S. government's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace addresses key issues around identity, privacy and security. Implementation, however, will require significant effort and innovation from the private sector.

Trading on sentiment - Sentiment analysis gives algorithmic trading an edge

2011-05-04T17:09:42+00:00

Sorting through thousands of news stories and categorizing information based on mood and tone creates useful data points for financial systems.

The hidden music in O'Reilly books

2011-05-04T17:08:42+00:00

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2011-05-04T15:40:32+00:00

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201105DevSummit

2011-05-04T14:51:27+00:00

Tentative last minute attendee is not able to come.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-04T14:49:22+00:00

201105DevSummit

2011-05-04T14:48:27+00:00

A cancellation.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-04T13:12:36+00:00

Add notes about buildings and rooms and list ISC as a sponsor.

OpenBSD Founder: No FBI Backdoor

2011-05-04T10:36:42+00:00

201105DevSummit/Clusteradm

2011-05-04T07:52:36+00:00

add a page with some clusteradm topics to discuss at BSDCan

FrontPage

2011-05-04T07:49:59+00:00

Change the first section to be "current" interesting links - move tinderbox down some as I don't think that many people need that

gcc, textinfo, and diffutils updates

2011-05-04T01:13:39+00:00

John Marino’s gone on a tear and updated GCC to version 4.4.6, diffutils from 2.87 to 3.0, and texinfo from 4.8 to 4.13. Each commit message that I linked to has plenty of notes on what’s different, so they’re worth following. This is the first update for texinfo in 6 years, so the quantity of updates is not surprising.

Summer of Code work that isn’t Summer of Code

2011-05-04T00:24:21+00:00

Kedar Soparkar applied for Google Summer of Code with DragonFly, but didn’t make the cut with the very few slots we have. So, he’s going to work on his i386 ABI implementation anyway. More student work is always wonderful news.

[03 May] [23:49 alexander@brovikov.ru] net/libsrtp - 1.4.4

2011-05-03T23:23:11+00:00

A library implementing Secure RTP

[03 May] [20:56 rene@FreeBSD.org] devel/ros-documentation - 1.4.1

2011-05-03T23:23:11+00:00

Robot Operating System - documentation utilities

[03 May] [20:56 rene@FreeBSD.org] math/ros-geometry - 1.2.0

2011-05-03T23:23:11+00:00

Robot Operating System - geometric and math libraries

[03 May] [20:56 rene@FreeBSD.org] devel/ros-common_msgs - 1.2.2

2011-05-03T23:23:11+00:00

Robot Operating System - common messages

[03 May] [20:56 rene@FreeBSD.org] devel/ros_comm - 1.4.5

2011-05-03T23:23:11+00:00

Robot Operating System - communication-related utilities

[03 May] [20:56 rene@FreeBSD.org] devel/ros-rx - 1.4.1

2011-05-03T23:23:11+00:00

Robot Operating System - GUI related tools

FreeBSD Installer and FreeBSD Version polls (results)

2011-05-03T20:58:54+00:00

Many thanks to everybody who recently took a minute voting in the “FreeBSD Installer preference” poll and the “FreeBSD version usage” poll. Below the numbers, percentages and the charts. 1. What kind of FreeBSD Installer do you like? 2. What version of … Continue reading →

201105DevSummit

2011-05-03T20:58:29+00:00

Adjust the schedule. No outside speaker for this year.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-03T20:51:52+00:00

Add room assignments for working groups.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-03T19:23:10+00:00

201105DevSummit/PCI

2011-05-03T19:21:25+00:00

201105DevSummit/PCI

2011-05-03T19:21:08+00:00

[03 May] [18:25 kmoore@FreeBSD.org] ports-mgmt/pbi-manager - 0.9.1

2011-05-03T19:03:36+00:00

Push Button Installer Manager

[03 May] [17:15 lwhsu@FreeBSD.org] www/py-dotcloud.cli - 0.3.1

2011-05-03T19:03:36+00:00

dotCloud command-line interface client

Anatomy of a phish - In light of recent security snafus, it's worth reviewing the basics of phish detection and prevention.

2011-05-03T17:05:42+00:00

Major security breaches sometimes lead to an onslaught of phish emails. Here's a handful of simple ways to spot suspect correspondence and avoid traps.

VDR

2011-05-03T16:54:28+00:00

Formatting; add vlc to streamdev examples

VDR

2011-05-03T16:36:56+00:00

Add note about adding vdr to the webcamd group

BuildingFreeBSDWithClang

2011-05-03T15:56:10+00:00

boot2 is ok now

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2011-05-03T15:12:15+00:00

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Four short links: 3 May 2011 - Sentiment Analysis, Word Frequency, Design Process, and Plant Recognition

2011-05-03T15:11:53+00:00

SentiWordNet -- WordNet with hints as to sentiment of particular terms, for use in sentiment analysis. (via Matt Biddulph) Word Frequency Lists and Dictionaries -- also for text analysis. This site contains what we believe is the most accurate frequency data of English. It contains word frequency lists of the top 60,000 words (lemmas) in English, collocates lists (looking...

Snap to the graph, not the grid - Location coordinate data lacks important context.

2011-05-03T15:10:53+00:00

Coordinate pairs are regular and orderly, but they are entirely ambiguous when used to represent more conceptual places like states, cities, stores and neighborhoods.

How to work with MongoDB's shell interface

2011-05-03T15:09:53+00:00

As with a single instance of MongoDB, most administration on a cluster can be done through the Mongo shell. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers:How to gather geographic location dataCan you copyright XML schemas?How to fix a frozen Droid XDocBook video: Setting up Xcode 4 and SVN Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today.

Collaborative genetics, part 2: Five Easy Pieces, Sage's Federation

2011-05-03T15:08:53+00:00

The second installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on the open-source sharing of genetic research, looks at the reasons collaborative research is critical to finding new treatments.

[03 May] [15:12 glarkin@FreeBSD.org] www/codeigniter17 - 1.7.3

2011-05-03T14:33:37+00:00

A framework for developing PHP web applications

[03 May] [14:12 sunpoet@FreeBSD.org] www/protovis - 3.2

2011-05-03T14:33:37+00:00

A JavaScript graphical toolkit for data visualization

[03 May] [14:10 sunpoet@FreeBSD.org] chinese/cconv - 0.6.2

2011-05-03T14:33:37+00:00

Simplified-Traditional Chinese conversion tool

AlexanderLeidinger

2011-05-03T07:36:26+00:00

little updates

RootOnZFS

2011-05-03T07:32:25+00:00

Add my root-on-zfs-4k-sectors guide.

[03 May] [06:55 clsung@FreeBSD.org] devel/rubygem-rash - 0.3.0

2011-05-03T06:29:12+00:00

Simple extension to Hashie::Mash for rubyified keys

[03 May] [05:19 hhyou@cs.nctu.edu.tw] devel/rubygem-vmc - 0.3.10

2011-05-03T06:29:12+00:00

The command line client for Cloud Foundry

[03 May] [05:01 hhyou@cs.nctu.edu.tw] archivers/rubygem-rubyzip2 - 2.0.1

2011-05-03T06:29:12+00:00

Ruby 1.9.1 compatible Zip library.

[03 May] [04:23 freebsdports@chillibear.com] finance/rubygem-money - 3.6.1

2011-05-03T06:29:12+00:00

Library for handling money and different currencies

[03 May] [04:12 freebsdports@chillibear.com] devel/rubygem-sundawg_country_codes - 0.0.6

2011-05-03T06:29:12+00:00

Manage ISO 3166 country names and codes

[03 May] [03:55 freebsdports@chillibear.com] devel/rubygem-state_machine - 0.10.4

2011-05-03T06:29:12+00:00

Support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class

[03 May] [03:41 freebsdports@chillibear.com] textproc/rubygem-terminal-table - 1.4.2

2011-05-03T06:29:12+00:00

Simple, feature rich ascii table generation library

FreeNAS 8.0 Released

2011-05-03T06:17:20+00:00

iXsystems has announced the availability of FreeNAS 8-RELEASE. Along with the new .0 release, the FreeNAS website received a make-over. Some of FreeNAS 8′s main features are: 1. FreeNAS 8.0-RELEASE supports NFS, CIFS, AFP, FTP and TFTP as filesharing mechanisms. It … Continue reading →

Collaborative genetics, Part 1: The ambitious goals of Sage Commons Congress

2011-05-03T03:13:35+00:00

The opening installment of this series, about a Sage Commons Congress on the open-source sharing of genetic research, explains the elements of modern research and how collaboration facilitates progress.

Plugging water leaks with data - TaKaDu is using sensors and data analysis to make water companies more efficient.

2011-05-03T03:06:35+00:00

Water companies need data analysis tools to find and repair costly leaks. Enter Israeli startup TaKaDu, which offers water infrastructure monitoring as a service.

[03 May] [02:45 amdmi3@FreeBSD.org] astro/mkgmap-splitter - r171

2011-05-03T02:27:05+00:00

Tile splitter for mkgmap

[03 May] [00:29 renchap@cocoa-x.com] security/rubygem-net-ssh-multi - 1.0.1

2011-05-02T23:37:03+00:00

SSH connection multiplexing library for Ruby

SummerOfCode2011Projects

2011-05-02T22:51:52+00:00

GáborKövesdán

2011-05-02T22:51:12+00:00

Links to learn UNIX

2011-05-02T20:13:02+00:00

Chatoor Kalki posted about his desire to learn about this whole UNIX/BSD/DragonFly thing, and there were several followups that may be useful to anyone interested in some reading.

Want your kernel build to fail?

2011-05-02T20:09:32+00:00

Then use the new LINT64 config added by Sascha Wildner. LINT kernels have every option turned on, so it’s pretty easy to have problems due to conflicts or untested parts and so on. You probably won’t get a kernel out of it, but now there’s a comprehensive list of your 64-bit kernel options for when you’re building a kernel that works.

[02 May] [16:37 tota@FreeBSD.org] www/p5-VUser-Google-ProvisioningAPI - 0.24

2011-05-02T18:33:02+00:00

Perl module that implements the Google Provisioning API

Four short links: 2 May 2011 - Internet Cafe Culture, Image Processing, Library Mining, and MediaWiki Parsing

2011-05-02T14:31:07+00:00

Chinese Internet Cafes (Bryce Roberts) -- a good quick read. My note: people valued the same things in Internet cafes that they value in public libraries, and the uses are very similar. They pose a similar threat to the already-successful, which is why public libraries are threatened in many Western countries. SIFT -- the Scale Invariant Feature Transform library,...

Legally speaking, think before you tweet - David Ardia on how libel laws apply to Twitter and new media.

2011-05-02T14:30:07+00:00

Most of us are familiar with the libel lawsuits aimed at magazine and newspaper publishers, but how do libel laws apply to Twitter, Facebook, and blogs? David Ardia, fellow at the Berkman Center and the director of the Citizen Media Law Project, breaks it down.

201105DevSummit

2011-05-02T13:44:21+00:00

#Ebook Deal/Day: Writing Game Center Apps in iOS - Only $6.49 (Save 50%) w/code DDWRT

2011-05-02T13:42:21+00:00

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201105DevSummit

2011-05-02T13:41:22+00:00

More talks.

[02 May] [06:31 haskell@FreeBSD.org] textproc/hs-lhs2tex - 1.15_2

2011-05-02T06:29:13+00:00

A preprocessor to generate LaTeX code from literate Haskell sources

[02 May] [02:48 swills@FreeBSD.org] devel/p5-File-Assets - 0.064_1

2011-05-02T02:27:06+00:00

Perl module to Manage .css and .js assets

[02 May] [02:47 swills@FreeBSD.org] devel/p5-Path-Resource - 0.072

2011-05-02T02:27:06+00:00

Perl module for combining local path manipulation and URI manipulation

[02 May] [02:45 swills@FreeBSD.org] devel/p5-Path-Abstract - 0.096

2011-05-02T02:27:06+00:00

Fast and featureful UNIX-style path parsing and manipulation

[02 May] [02:41 swills@FreeBSD.org] devel/p5-Tie-LLHash - 1.003

2011-05-02T02:27:06+00:00

Perl module which implements an ordered hash-like object

OpenBSD 4.9 Released

2011-05-01T21:59:00+00:00

An anonymous reader writes "The release of OpenBSD 4.9 has been announced. New highlights included since 4.8: enabled NTFS by default (read-only), the vmt(4) driver by default for VMWare tools, SMP kernels can now boot on machines with up to 64 cores, support for AES-NI instructions found in recent Intel processors, improvements in suspend and resume, OpenSSH 5.8, MySQL 5.1.54, LibreOffice 3.3.0.4, and bug fixes." Also in BSD news, an anonymous reader writes "DragonFly BSD 2.10 has been released! The latest release brings data deduplication (online and at garbage-collection time) to the HAMMER file system. Capping off years of work, the MP lock is no longer the main point of contention in multiprocessor systems. It also brings a new version of the pf packet filter, support for 63 CPUs and 512 GB of RAM and switches the system compiler to gcc 4.4."

Lazy Reading for 2011/05/01

2011-05-01T19:13:47+00:00

There hasn’t been much to nab for Lazy Reading, lately. Oh well. The last few weeks were good so it has to even out sometime.

Did you know GBC stands for Great Ball Contraption, a Lego device designed to move little plastic balls? Here’s 20 of them chained together. (via b3ta)
The original University POSTGRES. (thanks, Jan) This is a source for PostgreSQL, as far as I can tell, which makes it in some ways contemporary to BSD’s origins. I am not surprised. PostgreSQL seems to be the thinking person’s alternative to MySQL like BSD is the thinking person’s alternative to Linux.
Do you have a pf.conf? The people behind fwbuilder can use it for examples, so they can support pf in their config builder. (via)

New Developers

2011-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

[30 Apr] [20:09 nox@FreeBSD.org] multimedia/vdr-plugin-wirbelscan - 0.0.7

2011-04-30T23:37:31+00:00

Video Disk Recorder - wirbelscan plugin

[30 Apr] [20:09 nox@FreeBSD.org] multimedia/vdr-plugin-reelchannelscan - 0.6.1b1.7.15_1

2011-04-30T23:37:31+00:00

Video Disk Recorder - Reelchannelscan plugin

VDR

2011-04-30T20:01:55+00:00

VDR

2011-04-30T19:51:14+00:00

Add notes about reelchannelscan and wirlbelscan plugins that I just ported

GáborSoC2011

2011-04-30T19:41:35+00:00

VirtualBox

2011-04-30T15:42:36+00:00

Add note for installing FreeBSD guests

(Free)BSD quick news ‘n links (week 17)

2011-04-30T15:27:48+00:00

Below some links to some FreeBSD resourses that you guys may be interested in, and other BSD related items I’ve come across. FreeBSD Chromium 10, Google’s blazingly fast internet browser, is now available in the FreeBSD Ports directory (www/chromium). New FreeBSD Installer test … Continue reading →

[30 Apr] [11:00 naylor.b.david@gmail.com] ports-mgmt/portbuilder - 0.1.2

2011-04-30T10:54:15+00:00

Concurrent FreeBSD port builder

[30 Apr] [05:53 tota@FreeBSD.org] devel/ruby-memoize - 1.3.1

2011-04-30T06:41:08+00:00

A method that speeds methods up at the cost of memory

Chromium for DragonFly: please test

2011-04-30T01:58:17+00:00

Rui-Xiang Guo is looking for testers for wip/chromium. That’s the zippy Google browser. He especially wants DragonFly users – this would be useful, especially since I think Firefox 4 does not build on DragonFly right now.

GSoC: checkpointing vkernels and PUFFS

2011-04-30T01:52:27+00:00

Two more of the DragonFly and Google Summer of Code projects: Irina Presa’s checkpointing vkernels, where you can save a running virtual kernel and start it again later, and Nick Prokharau’s port of PUFFS.

(Anyone know the HTML character code for ‘s’ with an inverted grave mark so I can spell Irina’s name correctly?)

Open question: Would you rent a laptop? - The Google Chrome netbook rumors have expanded to include subscription-based distribution.

2011-04-30T01:11:55+00:00

Can't afford to buy a laptop? You might be Google's next target audience. New rumors suggest the Internet giant may be plotting to rent laptops, complete with hardware updates and repair as needed.

Publishing News: Week in Review - U.S. News reinvents itself with data, the iPad isn't just a digital screen, and startups get a showcase.

2011-04-30T01:10:55+00:00

In the latest Publishing News: US News & World Report replaced national advertising with data-driven revenue streams, iPad magazine publishers are missing the boat, and publishing startups will soon have a new way to get attention.

Summary of health care outcomes: does Massachusetts lead the nation?

2011-04-30T01:09:55+00:00

A recent study notes many successes in Massachusetts, but highlights the threat of rising costs.

PortsClusterActionItems

2011-04-30T01:01:11+00:00

some task updates. flz took care of putting qmanager under svn control, and moving the other scripts from cvs to svn.

[29 Apr] [23:06 jessefrgsmith@yahoo.ca] multimedia/imagination - 3.0

2011-04-29T23:05:11+00:00

A DVD slideshow maker

#Ebook Deal/Day: bash Cookbook - Only $19.99 (Save 50%) w/code DDBZH

2011-04-29T19:17:58+00:00

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Make Weekend Project: LED Light Brick

2011-04-29T19:13:11+00:00

Subscribe to Make Magazine today.

Four short links: 29 April 2011 - Gamification's Failures, Crowdsourced Clinical Study, Traceability, and Faster Web

2011-04-29T19:05:11+00:00

Kathy Sierra Nails Gamification -- I rarely link to things on O'Reilly sites, and have never before linked to something on Radar, but the comments here from Kathy Sierra are fantastic. She nails what makes me queasy about shallow gamification behaviours: replacing innate rewards with artificial ones papers over shitty products/experiences instead of fixing them, and don't get people...

201105DevSummit/Networking

2011-04-29T16:58:55+00:00

[29 Apr] [15:23 bsam@FreeBSD.org] multimedia/zoneminder - 1.24.2_1

2011-04-29T14:57:11+00:00

Complete security camera solution, fully web based with image analysis

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-04-29T13:19:59+00:00

Note workaround for aio problem

OpenBSD Founder: No FBI Backdoor

2011-04-29T11:43:25+00:00

balloon(4): Balloon driver now enabled for all Xen kernels. [jym 20110429]

2011-04-29T06:58:26+00:00

SummerOfCode2011Projects

2011-04-29T04:30:37+00:00

SummerOfCode2011Projects

2011-04-29T04:29:38+00:00

fix mdf's name

SummerOfCode2011Projects

2011-04-29T03:31:04+00:00

GSoC: dsched BFQ, virtio, LVM mirror

2011-04-29T02:53:28+00:00

Yay acronyms! Brills Peng was accepted for the Summer of Code project “Improve dsched interfaces and implement BFQ disk scheduling policy” – and now there’s a nice writeup describing what’s planned. Also, Stéphanie Ouillon did the same thing for the virtio drivers project. Adam Hoka also joined in with a summary for his LVM mirror project. Please keep this up, students.

dragonflybsd.it available

2011-04-29T02:16:14+00:00

If you are a European resident, Federico Biancuzzi has the DRAGONFLYBSD.IT domain name available to donate. He doesn’t want to let it go and have it taken by a domain squatter. Talk to him at sale@securitydaemon.com if you want to hold on to it for some unspecified time.

[28 Apr] [22:59 flo@FreeBSD.org] net-mgmt/check_logfiles - 3.4.3.1

2011-04-28T23:09:19+00:00

Nagios plugin which scans log files for specific patterns

[28 Apr] [20:56 hashiz@meridiani.jp] audio/linux-f10-alsa-plugins-oss - 1.0.21_1

2011-04-28T23:09:19+00:00

OSS plugin for ALSA (Linux Fedora 10)

Submit your real world pf.conf

2011-04-28T22:32:25+00:00

As some of you may know, fwbuilder.org is a cross-platform, graphical firewall management utility that supports iptables, ASA, PIX, FWSM, Cisco router access lists, pf, ipfw, ipfilter, and HP ProCurve ACL firewalls. Vadim Kurland and Mike Horn, the lead fwbuilder developers, … Continue reading →

VirtualBox/ToDo

2011-04-28T20:46:20+00:00

Add USB task to bugs list

201105DevSummit/Ports

2011-04-28T19:04:36+00:00

Add skreuzer