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This Week's Musing
March 21, 2006
Several new GEOM scripts suitable for periodic execution
were committed to
the FreeBSD src tree on March 8th. If you use cvsup to keep
your src
up-to-date, you'll find a gmirror status script in
/usr/src/etc/periodic/daily/406.status-gmirror.
Alternatively, you can
grab it from cvsweb .
To use the script with periodic:
copy the script to /etc/periodic/daily
add this line to /etc/periodic.conf (or modify it to say YES
instead of NO):
daily_status_gmirror_enable="YES"
If you're new to gmirror, check out my Onlamp tutorial on
setting up
RAID 1 on FreeBSD.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5615
LINK: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/008275
.asp?rss=1
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OpenBSD Needs Your Help
March 21, 2006
Marco Peereboom explains a little about the OpenBSD
financial needs, in
terms of what is needed and how it is used. CD sales are
down and FTP
installs are up which prints a pretty bleak picture. For
there to be a
hackathon next year there must either be a sponsor or a
significant rise
in donations. For the full text please read this article on
undeadly.org.
Keep in mind the other ancillary (but not less important)
projects of
OpenSSH, OpenNTPD, OpenBGPD all rely on these donations to
keep providing
this high quality and completely unencumbered software.
Software
development is not cheap and quality reliable software is
even less so.
Hackathons bring a lot of change, direction and innovation
to the
community and are therefore worth every penny so please help
keep them
alive.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5614
LINK: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2006
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O'Reilly Releases Intermediate Perl
March 21, 2006
Sebastopol, CA--Over the years, working through the
"Llama Book"
(formally known as "Learning Perl") has become a
necessary rite of passage
for would-be Perl programmers. Its pages have instructed
many a novice in
the use of Perl for writing short and medium programs, which
have traditionally accounted for much of the programming
done in Perl. But
more and more often, the language is being used for larger
programs and
Perl programmers are working as members of programming
teams. So,
having mastered the material in "Learning Perl,"
it's quite natural
for programmers to ask, "How do we get from here to
there?" The answer can
be found in "Intermediate Perl" (O'Reilly, US
$39.99) by Randal
Schwartz, brian d foy, and Tom Phoenix. Written by the same
team of
authors that produced the renowned Llama Book, this sequel
picks up where
the first book left off.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5613
LINK: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/intermediateperl/index.
html
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Robotic Software Simulator
March 20, 2006
Tokyo-based, Speecys Corp., has developed a simulation
software platform
designed to aid in robot development. Demonstrated through a
prototype of
the SPC-003 robot, the software uses a combination of
SolidWorks, 3D CAD
and COSMOSMotion, and a mechanical analysis simulator. With
the software
platform, a design engineer can verify robotic motion before
prototyping a
robot.
The Real Motion System consists of a robotic software
development tool
for programming control of robotic walking, software for
implementing
robotic motion, robot prototype, its 3D CAD data and
mechanical simulation
tool. The OS embedded in the SPC-003 is based on a
UNIX-compatible NetBSD,
facilitating smooth data communication between SolidWorks
and
COSMOSMotion.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5612
LINK: http
://www.designnews.com/article/CA6312053.html
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Thin Clients with XDMCP
March 20, 2006
bsdtalk hosts their 25th podcast, covering the X Window
System and XDMCP.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5611
LINK: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/03/b
sdtalk025-thin-clients-with-xdmcp.html
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Developer Blog: dlg: Hacking on ami
March 20, 2006
Mickey first brought ami into our tree about 5 years ago. It
started life
as a driver to support access to its logical disks, which is
great,
because that's what you buy the hardware to do. However,
the way it
does this is pretty cool. MegaRAID controllers aren't
actually
traditional scsi controllers, meaning that there is no scsi
bus which
volumes hang off, you don't send INQUIRY commands to the
volumes, and
you don't do scsi reads and writes to get data on and off
them either.
MORE: http
://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=5610
LINK: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2006
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