BSDNow Episode 055: The Promised WLAN

Contributed by tbert on Fri Sep 19 06:44:38 2014 (GMT) from the WLAN of milk and honey dept. In this episode of BSDNow, Kris and Allan go over the week's BSD odds and ends, including mention of an interesting article about using a Linux rescue image to bootstrap a headless OpenBSD installation on remote machines. Headlining is an interview with the FreeBSD wireless stack maintainer, Adrian Chadd. [ Video | HD Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent ]

Heads Up: Sendmail Removed from Base

Contributed by tbert on Tue Sep 16 08:56:55 2014 (GMT) from the day of the living tedu dept. In the first of several commits, Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@) has removed sendmail from the release: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org 2014/09/15 16:25:57 Modified files: gnu/usr.sbin : Makefile Log message: Unlink sendmail from the build. ok krw@ ajacoutot@ Users of OpenSMTPd can rejoice in having no work to do; others will have to install sendmail from packages.

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GSoC 2014: Systemd replacement utilities (systembsd)

Contributed by jj on Fri Sep 12 07:06:45 2014 (GMT) from the all your system is belong to us dept. Ian Kremlin wrote in with this report on the GSoC he was involved in: This summer I, along with my mentors Landry Breuil and Antoine Jacoutot, worked on systemd shim-like replacements for four D-Bus daemons systemd provides, namely hostnamed, localed, timedated, and logind. Read more...

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BSDNow Episode 054: Luminary Environment

Contributed by tbert on Fri Sep 12 10:58:07 2014 (GMT) from the better than incendiary dept. In this week's episode, the BSDNow crew discusses the week's dealings in the world of BSD, with a decent focus on OpenBSD's systemd-shim GSoC project, OpenBSD's versioning schemes, and the OpenBSD port of portscout. [ Video | HD Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent ]

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Energy-efficient bcrypt cracking

Contributed by jj on Fri Sep 12 07:22:07 2014 (GMT) from the kiss-blowfish-get-free-lip-piercing dept. Solar Designer posted on the openwall announce list about the recent status on using FPGAs to crack bcrypt passwords. From: Solar Designer <solar [a/t] openwall.com> Subject: Energy-efficient bcrypt cracking (Passwords^14, Skytalks, WOOT '14 slides and paper); crypt_blowfish 1.3 Read more...

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2Q Buffer Cache in OpenBSD

Contributed by tbert on Fri Sep 5 04:39:36 2014 (GMT) from the i will always 2q dept. Ted Unangst (tedu@) wrote a blog post about his replacement of the simple LRU buffer cache algorithm with a 2Q-ish one: Since the dawn of time, the OpenBSD buffer cache replacement algorithm has been LRU. It’s not always ideal, but it often comes close enough and it’s simple enough to implement that it’s remained the tried and true classic for a long time. I just changed the algorithm to one modelled somewhat after the 2Q algorithm by Johnson and Shasha. (PDF) Read more...

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BSDNow Episode 053: It's HAMMER Time

Contributed by jj on Fri Sep 5 08:31:57 2014 (GMT) from the when will bsdnow serve episodes using http(8) dept. On the 1 year anniversary episode of BSDNow, Kris and Allan interview OpenBSD's Reyk Flцter (reyk@) about the new httpd(8), in addition to the week's odds and ends in the world of BSD. [ Video | HD Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent ]

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Persist tmux environment across system restarts

Contributed by jj on Thu Sep 4 08:00:26 2014 (GMT) from the frankensteins terminal dept. Nagy Gбbor writes in with a tip: Tmux is great, except when you have to restart the computer. You lose all the running programs, working directories, pane layouts etc. There are helpful management tools out there, but they require initial configuration and continuous updates as your workflow evolves or you start new projects. Read more...

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BSDNow Episode 052: Reverse Takeover

Contributed by tbert on Fri Aug 29 10:31:00 2014 (GMT) from the pecan PIE dept. This week on BSDNow, in addition to the week's BSD-flavored odds and ends, Kris and Allan headline with an interview with Shawn Webb about ASLR and PIE on FreeBSD. [ Video | HD Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent ]

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