2008-10-11T18:34:34+00:00 Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org http://rss.ittoolbox.com/rss/27668@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru 2008-10-10T14:34:47+00:00 Last night, Murray Stokely from the FreeBSD project <a href="http://murrayfreebsd.blogspot.com/2008/10/another-successful-summer-of-code.html">blogged</a> his report on the 2008 Summer of Code Projects. A summary of the projects is now available <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2008.html">here</a> on the FreeBSD website. A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru http://rss.ittoolbox.com/rss/27582@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru 2008-10-06T15:10:12+00:00 A new utility was added to the ports-mgmt section of the FreeBSD ports collection today. According to the description: "This is an interactive version of the pkg_add(1) command. It's not a clone of pkg_add(1) or a new package install tool, instead this program uses pkg_add(1) to install packages while providing the user an interactive interface." A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/newsflash.html#event20081006:01 2008-10-06T14:31:44+00:00 The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/ http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk//bsdtalk159.mp3 2008-10-06T05:00:00+00:00 Kris Moore - MP3 version<br />From: bsdtalk<br />Tags: bsdtalk, interview, kris more, pc-bsd, mp3<br /> Interview with Kris Moore. We talk about the recent release of PC-BSD 7.0. FreeBSD Multimedia http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs/multimedia.html http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk//bsdtalk159.ogg 2008-10-06T05:00:00+00:00 Kris Moore - Ogg version<br />From: bsdtalk<br />Tags: bsdtalk, interview, kris more, pc-bsd, ogg<br /> Interview with Kris Moore. We talk about the recent release of PC-BSD 7.0. FreeBSD Multimedia http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs/multimedia.html 2008-10-05T19:10:03+00:00 <p>DragonFly BSD Digest says:<br /> <blockquote>Hasso Tepper brought in a fix from OpenBSD for ssh; apparently empty banners on some types of network equipment would cause a disconnect.  This isn&#8217;t major, but there may just be someone out there reading this for whom knowing about that saves a lot of frustration. </blockquote></p> <p><b>More:</b> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2008/10/05/3202.html"> continued here </a></p> admin http://bsdnews.com http://www.freebsddiary.org/mailman-removing-dead-lists.php 2008-10-04T23:01:40+00:00 Mailing lists can outlive their usefulness The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/ tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20054565.post-1395102195655824919 2008-10-02T18:55:00+00:00 Interview with Kris Moore. We talk about the recent release of PC-BSD 7.0.<br /><br />File Info: 12Min, 6MB.<br /><br />Ogg Link:<br />http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk159.ogg Mr (noreply@blogger.com) http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://rss.ittoolbox.com/rss/27497@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru 2008-09-30T15:20:39+00:00 Hakia, a semantic search engine, has announced a call to librarians and information professionals. From the <a href="http://company.hakia.com/pr-092208.html">press release</a>: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru http://rss.ittoolbox.com/rss/27494@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru 2008-09-30T13:54:42+00:00 EuroBSDCon is less than three weeks away and the list of <a href="http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html">talks</a> is impressive. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a> also looks like a great place to visit. Check out the <a href="http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/">website</a> for all information and registration. There is a 20% discount for students and BSD/Unix/Linux users groups (use discount code Student when registering). A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru http://news.freshports.org/?p=204 2008-09-29T06:10:55+00:00 I think I&#8217;ve fixed a problem with caching of non-ports. I was looking for something to do tonight after I could not sleep. I found a old post about a this issue and figured I could fix it. The fix is in BETA. I&#8217;ll monitor it for a while before pushing it to [...] Dan Langille http://news.freshports.org http://rss.ittoolbox.com/rss/27419@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru 2008-09-26T10:37:54+00:00 The fall conference season is gearing up. This is where I'll be over the next few months. A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru http://rss.ittoolbox.com/rss/27418@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru 2008-09-26T10:17:54+00:00 If the blog has been quiet lately it's because I've been kept busy in a sea of work--let's just say that it's hard to type a blog entry while doing the doggy-paddle... Last time I looked up it was mid-August and gasp, it is now nearly October. Some of the stuff I've been meaning to blog about include: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk//bsdtalk158.mp3 2008-09-26T05:00:00+00:00 Interview with Chess Griffin - MP3 version<br />From: bsdtalk<br />Tags: bsdtalk, interview, chess griffin, linuxreality, mp3<br /> Interview with Chess Griffin, host of the LinuxReality podcast. We talk about his use of Linux and recent exploration into the BSDs. FreeBSD Multimedia http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs/multimedia.html http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk//bsdtalk158.ogg 2008-09-26T05:00:00+00:00 Interview with Chess Griffin - Ogg version<br />From: bsdtalk<br />Tags: bsdtalk, interview, chess griffin, linuxreality, ogg<br /> Interview with Chess Griffin, host of the LinuxReality podcast. We talk about his use of Linux and recent exploration into the BSDs. FreeBSD Multimedia http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs/multimedia.html tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20054565.post-2509728021490898131 2008-09-25T16:13:00+00:00 Interview with Chess Griffin, host of the LinuxReality podcast. We talk about his use of Linux and recent exploration into the BSDs.<br /><br />File Info: 24Min, 11MB.<br /><br />Ogg Link:<br />http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk158.ogg Mr (noreply@blogger.com) http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://rss.ittoolbox.com/rss/27401@http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru 2008-09-25T14:31:04+00:00 The <a href="http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/issue/view/67"> September issue</a> of the OSBR is now available in HTML and PDF formats. The theme this month is "Social Innovation" and the authors include: A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/24/203229&from=rss 2008-09-24T20:25:00+00:00 thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/24/203229&from=rss"><img src="http://bsd.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/24/203229" /></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/24/203229&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uEEoQztqCD5flhnM-FCFX4lZS6M/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/uEEoQztqCD5flhnM-FCFX4lZS6M/i" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~4/-9bepxcBEAk" height="1" width="1" /> timothy http://bsd.slashdot.org/ http://news.freshports.org/?p=202 2008-09-23T17:38:57+00:00 Some new graphs were put on the beta site last night.  They use a combination of jQuery and Flot to generate the graphs.  All the backend code is php (but is quite ugly and small).  The real meat of the important code is in the javascript.  I&#8217;ve written an explanation of how the code works [...] wxs http://news.freshports.org http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/newsflash.html#event20080915:02 2008-09-22T22:34:14+00:00 The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/