Author: arved

EuroBSDCon talks and tutorials

I just noticed that the EuroBSDCon Website was updated and now contains descriptions of the scheduled talks and tutorials. BTW the Website is one of the ugliest I have ever seen. Why couldn’t they keep the nice clean layout of the last con?

I am a bit disappointed, there are less FreeBSD topics than two year ago.

I am considering booking the IPv6 Tutorial, it looks quite promising.
Other talks that sound interesting:

  • Running the NetBSD Kernel as a Server Personality on Top of the L4 Microkernel
  • Crossbuilding NetBSD packages, although it is probably similar to the one Krister held at pkgsrccon
  • Implementation of OpenBSD’s bgpd
  • brooks’ talk on Dynamic Interfaces
  • And probably one of those pf/altq Firewall talks

Looks like there will be a lot of time for hanging around.

My First Math Exam

The highlight of this term is history, my first math exam, and it looks like there is even a slight chance that I managed to succeed, at least it looked easy and I wrote something to all four tasks. The results will be available in July and I really hope that I don’t have to do it again.
Oh, and note to self, I should practice solving improper integrals without a math book :-S.
One week left until summer holidays start.

No Blogentry today

No, I have not written a blogentry today, you must be dreaming. You can’t read this post, as it does not exist. Go away!
Instead of posting to this blog I am busy learning math. Hopefully I am back on Tuesday evening.

tjr announces Linux32 emulator

tjr just posted to freebsd-amd64 that he has got the linuxulator working.
He wrote, that jdk, OOo and Acrobat work.

tjr > *

I have not tested it, because the countown for the math exam started. His linux-base is based on Slackware, if noone beats me I will try to make a port of it in July, (The first ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= amd64 port :-).

Relieving statistics

Thanks to Diman, who pointed me to the “Hochschulstatistik 2002/2003” a collection of various figures about Austria’s universities.
I now know that the average CS student at my university finishes after 14.5 terms. So I still have 7 terms or three and a half year to finish :-).
I have also found out that the new baccalaureate degrees are very unpopular. Although there are now tuition fees only one student at our university took the chance to finish university earlier with a “Bakk.” instead of a “Dipl.” degree.
The other surprise the many opponents of the tuition fees, who claimed that with the fees the proportion of female students will decrease, were proved wrong. Of course, never trust a statistic unless you forged it yourself.

Planet BSD anyone?

Via Capzilla I read about the latest internet hype, Planet. I should play with it, as it is written in python and doesn’t stink of PHP. Or I should add a planet mode to rssfetch. Hm, Yet another project for the summer holidays.
But if anyone has time and webspace, there is still a BSD planet missing in the list of planets.

FreeBSD Core team elections II

Okay, the voting has started. After writing the last blog article and while writing this article, it became quite clear, who will be my favorites and I have placed my votes.
Here are the remarkable paragraphs added in the last 24 hours.

marcel added a good analysis of the project to his statement: We do need to make sure that knowledge and understanding is not as volatile as the people who have it. There are various ways to achieve that, but unfortunately they all depend on somebody doing something. And frankly, we’re not exactly cooperative and forthcoming when it comes to action.
We seem to like to talk about how things should be done, without actually doing it. We all have good intentions, but if push come to shove, we’re all too busy.

I think one of the goals of the future core team should be, that there should be at least two developers overseeing a subsystem. This involves forcing people to share their knowledge and to work in teams.

green commented on the question “Does FreeBSD need a vision?”: I don’t feel that FreeBSD has a unified vision — and I don’t think that this is a problem.�[..] Various individuals in FreeBSD do, however, have their own strong visions!

Yes, thank you. That’s exactly my idea, nothing to add.

FreeBSD core team elections

The application period for candidates is over. We have 23 candidates. alfred and obrien jumped into the boat in the last hours. Although some candidates are still working on rewriting their statements, there are some interesting statements I like to cite, as the voting period will start tomorrow, and I have not yet decided who will sit in my dreamcore.

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First useful Flash site

Via Kris: The first useful Flash site: Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music. Unfortunately the site is already DOS’d by the blogosphere and it is currently unreachable. And unfortunately there are no mirrors. (Probably because it is difficult to mirror flash sites).
I like to listen to the samples of the different styles, and the descriptions are funny, interesting and sometimes just personal and biased. Some of the styles seem to be invented by the author. (Have you ever heard of “Stupid House” ?). I was most astonished by the similarity between 2unlimited’s “Twilight zone”, KLF’s “What time is love” and Faithless’ “Insomnia” all categorized as “Anthem House”.
I was reminded of the time when i listened to music instead of sitting in front of the computer

Voting marathon month

This month I have to vote three times.
On Sunday the local computer club CNGW votes a new board. Recently the Mailinglist exploded as people discussed the clubs appearance on the recent Linux event, which turned into flames about the boards work. Although I haven’t been involved into Linuxwochen, this was the final kick for the decision to decrease my engagement. Hopefully a lot of motivated members show up, that are interested in working on the board.
The FreeBSD project’s Core Team elections are just about to start. Currently candidates are sending in their applications. At the moment most candidates are either members of core.3 or youngsters. Hopefully over the weekend a few more candidates will appear, as there are still empty seats in my dream-core.
And finally the Memebers of the European Parliament will be elected in two weeks. As always in RL-austrian politics the election campaigns are ridiculous, which makes it hard for voters with a brain to chose their favorites.