[Ukfreebsd] Notes from last nights meeting

Simon Matthews spm at flirble.org
Wed Aug 23 11:08:39 BST 2017


* Sevan Janiyan (venture37 at geeklan.co.uk) [170823 07:58]:
> Henning Brauer: tcp synfloods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuHepyI0_KY
> k & kdb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
> Arrogant programmers
> cppconf
> Gregg Law gdb talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n9Fkq1e6sg
> Bjarne Stroustrup "Make Simple Tasks Simple!"
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nesCaocNjtQ
> Perl 6 intro tutorial http://perl6intro.com
> DRM Free books
> Oreilly https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/were-reinventing-too
> DEMOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOS
> https://ache.vniz.net/demos.html
> Perl Mongers is 20 years old
> Crashes, dump devices on encrypted swap and lack of crash dumps on NetBSD
> Cheapo Chelsio cards on ebay
> Getting 10Gbe on a budget
> New frontends for rspamd
> Using pkgsrc on Solaris 11.3
> pkgsrc to IPS support
> FreeBSD on POWER 8 & 9
> ELF binaries & OS ABI registry
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format#File_header
> Perl-cross https://github.com/arsv/perl-cross
> status of NetBSD/hpcarm builds with llvm for ARMv4 (not quite there yet)
> https://sourceware.org
> Scrapping old computers for gold
> Cross-platform testing in NetBSD with Antia
> http://www.gson.org/netbsd/anita/

Also, Russian computers.

Some links (unrelated to the conversation):
* http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/0.htm
* http://www.filfre.net/2017/06/tales-of-the-mirror-world-part-1-calculators-and-cybernetics/ (overall about Tetris but covers some Russian computing)

Simon



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