Lazy Reading: cheatsheet, disks, pkgsrc, more
Normally I hold this for Sunday, but I’ve got a good batch of links already. Something here for everyone, this week. A git cheatsheet, and another git cheatsheet. I may have linked to the latter one...
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2011/05/08
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...
View ArticlePotential job available
A position opened up for a junior systems administrator at my workplace. You have to be willing to live near Rochester, NY, administrate a mix of Windows and unixy machines, do desktop support, and...
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2011/11/20
Hey, the date’s sorta palindromic! Sorta. “Bundled, Buried and Behind Closed Doors” – a video description of the physical parts of the Internet. Remember when MAE-East or MAE-West would have a bad...
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2012/08/05
I seem to include a vi/vim tip every week. It’s not on purpose, or at least it wasn’t until now. vimwiki – maintain a wiki within Vim. Not as extreme an idea as you’d think. (via) Oh yeah, something...
View ArticleAnother book tip: Vim and Vi Tips
Seen on Ycombinator News, the Vim and Vi Tips e-book on Amazon is _free_ today, and possibly just today. It’s a Kindle book, but there’s software Kindle readers from Amazon if you don’t have one.
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2012/08/19
I think I’ve made it through my backlog of things to post. For no apparent reason, I ended up with a whole bunch of ‘this vs. that’ links this week. BSD vs. Linux. The target article is way old, but...
View ArticleLazy Reading for 2012/09/02
I hope you like your links eclectic this week. DragonFly is a popular project name, but this is unrelated to DragonFly BSD. Russian Tea HOWTO. I know there’s at least a few vigorous tea-drinkers in...
View ArticleAn education in Python and maybe OLPC
This is mostly unrelated to DragonFly: I need to get more Python experience in the next few months, mostly around the OLPC project. I’ve only messed with Python when needed to get an existing script...
View ArticleHey, NYC readers
This has nothing directly to do with DragonFly, other than this is a result from my trip to NYCBSDCon last year… I know I have a few New York City readers. I’m possibly making a short trip to NYC...
View ArticleEarly morning distraction
Perhaps it’s not early morning where you are, but: if you go to Google’s 2013 Google I/O site, clicking on the I and O in particular patterns take you to various easter eggs. (see after break for...
View ArticleRSS reader recommendations
Google Reader, which is what I use to track as much BSD stuff as possible, is being retired as of July 1. I need a new RSS reader – any recommendations? Something that I can access from multiple...
View ArticlePRISM, privacy, and what you make yourself
If you’ve been reading the Digest for a while, you’ve seen me talk about the value of hosting or running your own services. It’s not too much of a surprise in my case; if you are working on an...
View ArticleWanted: a Mailman patch
One of the most-requested items for the DragonFly mailing list archives is reverse sorting by date. Mailman, which is what’s being used now for archiving, doesn’t have a ‘native’ way to do that. Has...
View ArticleI’m hiring
This has nothing really to do with DragonFly. I’m hiring a report developer for work. Here’s the Craigslist job posting. I consider it very unlikely that there’s a local reader of this blog that...
View ArticleHoliday shopping guide 2013
For those of you doing last-minute holiday shopping – like me: see previous years of gift links. There’s also a number of comics lists, book lists, and game guides. And of course, donations.
View ArticleOpen source classes at RIT
Normally I’d save this for Lazy Reading, but I’m indirectly involved: the Rochester Institute of Technology now has a minor in Open Source and Free Culture. Here’s the press release. I taught one of...
View ArticleHiring a syadmin
I’m hiring a sysadmin at my workplace: http://rochester.craigslist.org/sad/4400416990.html
View ArticleCongratulations, Matthew Dillon!
Matthew Dillon hasn’t committed anything to DragonFly in several days… cause he just got married! Congratulations to the newly married couple.
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