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November 2004 Archives
There is now another article on ONLamp about EuroBSDCon, Inside EuroBSDCon by Federico Biancuzzi.
Since writing comments to the article seems to be broken, he gets a Trackback.
Federico, I think at the moment the target audience is quite clear, people that care enough about BSD to spend at least 600 Euro to attend a BSD conference. This includes developers and interested users and companies. And I prefer to listen to talks of developers like rwatson at EuroBSDCon.
But I agree, that there are possibilities to save money. E.g. IMHO there is no need for the conference to take place in a 4+ stars hotel. For most people a three stars hotel is enough. And the conference rooms could as well be in a university, school or education company.
Of course EuroBSDCon should not replace local conferences targeting newtobsd users.
I just orderd the book "Hackers and Painters" by Paul Graham after reading this article
In the example chapter is my quote of the day:
If what [hackers] are doing is called science, it makes them feel they ought to be acting scientific. So instead of doing what they really want to do, which is to design beautiful software, hackers in universities and research labs feel they ought to be writing research papers.
Luckily in German it is called "Informatik", so there are people at our university, that still write real software :-)
I spent the weekend in Salzburg. They have real snow and not only storms and rain like here in Vienna.
My girlfriend's brother fell from the roof while fixing rooftiles. Luckily he survived falling down ca. seven meter onto the concrete courtyard without major injuries. He is now in hospital; the emergency physician diagnosed internal bleedings, a strained hamstring and a twisted thig. (hm, my anatomy vocabulary is really bad).
Today I noticed that my Darwinbugreport has been fixed two months ago. Only 10 months after i submitted it. Neither did the committer close the Bug report nor did he credit me in the commit log.
Who said that bugzilla would be a solution to fighting FreeBSD Bug reports?
Darwinports are a lot smaller, they use a proclaimed better tool and they still can't handle their bug reports. Long live GNATS!
The Picture of the week shows the main antenna mast of Funkfeuer, the free viennese WLAN community. After last weeks storm someone secured the mast with a fiber cable.
More than one year ago, my old Laptop had an accident which resulted in a broken pccard slot. Just when i bought USB NICs it stopped booting at all.
Last week a PR about FreeBSD's broken USB support for this laptop was closed. So I decided to do a last attempt to rescue annamirl from the dead.
I removed all remaining pieces of the PC-Card slot and it now boots again. Unfortunately I had to remove the keyboard ribbon cable from the mainboard and I haven't figured out how to reconnect it. So I am now updating it with an external keyboard.
I will try to upload pictures later.
Today i sent my patch against routed, that fixed tracing on amd64, to the upstream author and Vernon Schryver released routed 2.31.
Now I just have to prepare a diff against FreeBSD and find an interested src-committer for review.
Next to the three large BSDcon in Europe, US and Asia, many countries have local BSD conferences, e.g. Italy, Canada and of course Japan.
On #bsdaustria, Aleksander Fafula just pointed me to MeetBSD, Krak�w on November 27.
Unfortunately I don't speak polish :-(.
But why is there nothing similar in Austria or even Germany? I know it is a lot of work, so are we just too lazy?
BTW, would you buy an Operating System from these guys?
Too many FreeBSD entries in a row. Time for something completly different.
My girlfriend's brother does his best to save the pension system. Last week his seventh (if i counted correctly) child was born. Welcome on planet earth, Carl!
After the release of FreeBSD 5.3 i upgraded my gateway from 5.2.1 to 5.3. Because of the upgrade-risk i migrated the webserver that runs this blog to jim.arved.de.
There were a few problems I had to solve, that caused a few hours downtime. First i had to add an IP alias for my public IP to lo0, because otherwise the webserver would not answer on requests (I need more public IPs, so I can stop using NAT). Then I had to patch MT to work with perl 5.8.4. I hope this was the only necessary patch, as I don't have the time to switch to another blogging software.
The FreeBSD upgrade went flawless. Now there are only two machines left on my network that run 5.2.x.
Finally someone else wrote about EuroBSDCon, Dru Lavigne.
The most interesting paragraph of her review critizes the BSD Developers as antisocial:
My attempts at conversation fizzled out shortly after "hello". During the talks, noone would sit in my row and the seats immediately ahead of and behind me were embarrassingly empty. I was starting to wonder if I was suffering from a bad case of BO.
I have to admit, neither did I attend her talk nor did i talk to her :-(.
But I also noticed that this EuroBSDcon was a bit antisocial.
Some Examples:
- At normal geek events there is a keysigning party (well party is an euphemism but it is at least a start for getting to know everyone). In Karlsruhe people just exchanged keys with people they already knew.
- There was no list of all attendants, so you couldn't find out whom you forgot to talk to.
- grog complains in his diary, that we had to pay for the drinks at the social event. The social-event suited in a hangar-like hall was too cold to socialize.
Yesterday I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RC2 on the Alphastation. The only problem was a usability problem, the kernel/loader didn't tell me, that output was going to the serial console. I named it roberta, not sure why, the first name that came to my mind, that sounds like an old lady.
Kris has stopped the alpha package builds half a year ago because FreeBSD alpha was too unstable, but there are still a lot of people running FreeBSD alpha, so let's see when i will see my first crash.
I am currently building a 5-STABLE world and I will build some packages later.
BTW 5.3 was finally released yesterday. Read about it on /. or heise.
Via Jonas Luster. Let's see if i get such a similar image.
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The Read.me handed out at conference registration said "Consider the WLAN as untrusted". I checked how many people read the Read.me and ran dsniff during the whole conference and compared the result to my universitys wlan. It was better, but I still got too many passwords:
4 POP3 Accounts, 1 non-anymous ftp account and 6 IMAP accounts.
At least one IMAP account i could map to a well known FreeBSD committer.
So if you didn't used IMAP/SSL and especially if your password starts with "icr" you should change it, because maybe I will consider selling it to the slashdot troll.
BTW this one is really embarrassing for a BSD conference:
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10/31/04 13:53:24 tcp 172.31.1.133.3161 -> ftp.freesbie.org.21 (ftp)
USER anonymous
PASS IEUser@
Today i attended three talks:
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