Thursday, December 31, 2009
NetBSD, MAC, etc
recently, Elad Efrat has been sending in a lot of patches to move closer to full integration with veriexec, secmodel, and apparently MAC as a whole.
I expect to see a lot of increased interest in kauth, secmodel, veriexec, and friends as some of these integrations efforts continue to work their way through the entire system. -current should be interesting for a while, at least. :)
I expect to see a lot of increased interest in kauth, secmodel, veriexec, and friends as some of these integrations efforts continue to work their way through the entire system. -current should be interesting for a while, at least. :)
Labels: NetBSD
Thursday, December 24, 2009
cygwin update
Cygwin, a system I've been using for years at work to make my windows PC more usable, has been updated.
It claims to support files with :'s in the name, but I'll have to see. This is a nice feature when someone checks in a bunch of CPAN docs from a unix machine into your svn repo.
It claims to support files with :'s in the name, but I'll have to see. This is a nice feature when someone checks in a bunch of CPAN docs from a unix machine into your svn repo.
Labels: linux
Sunday, December 13, 2009
mod_geoip2 added to pkgsrc
I've added mod_geoip2 to pkgsrc-wip so if you want to do some geographic-based redirection with apache, give it a try!
This was a funny package because it didn't have a Makefile. I probably need to add a message about configuring apache, downloading the actual geoip database, etc. I think it's a good start, though.
This was a funny package because it didn't have a Makefile. I probably need to add a message about configuring apache, downloading the actual geoip database, etc. I think it's a good start, though.
Labels: pkgsrc
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Xen 4 and NetBSD
Some NetBSD patches have been approved upstream by Xen. This is a good thing for Xen 4 on NetBSD. :)
Xen 4.0 on NetBSD
Xen 4.0 on NetBSD
Labels: NetBSD
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
NetBSD terminfo and curses improved
Roy Marples has recently completed his work to make the NetBSD curses implementation more useful and compatible. So if you're a fan of NetBSD's games, vi, etc, check it out.
Labels: NetBSD
Saturday, December 5, 2009
iChat with NetGear SPI (stateful packet inspection) is problematic
So for a while now I've noticed that when Girl X is online from home I am unable to hit my website or ssh to my house. I thought this was related to my office's firewall but last night noticed that it was happening locally to.
The problem seems to be that netgear's SPI is triggered when iChat (not adium) signs into AIM and it decides to SHUT DOWN ALL INCOMING TRAFFIC! So if this website had extended outages during the day, that could have been a potential reason. Anyway, netgear's SPI sucks and I should put my soekris back in the firewall hotseat.
The problem seems to be that netgear's SPI is triggered when iChat (not adium) signs into AIM and it decides to SHUT DOWN ALL INCOMING TRAFFIC! So if this website had extended outages during the day, that could have been a potential reason. Anyway, netgear's SPI sucks and I should put my soekris back in the firewall hotseat.
Labels: os x
Friday, December 4, 2009
BSDCan 2010 announced - represent NetBSD
FYI- BSDCan 2010
If you're going to be in Canada, go to BSDCan. I went to NYCBSDCon and had a pretty good time meeting all kinds of people I see on mailing lists, irc, etc. (Hello, Christos, jlam, and Brian S.), listening to talks about various things, and having something to do when I go somewhere and travel.
Also if you're doing something interesting, give a talk! NetBSD does tons of amazing work that no one knows about. :)
If you're going to be in Canada, go to BSDCan. I went to NYCBSDCon and had a pretty good time meeting all kinds of people I see on mailing lists, irc, etc. (Hello, Christos, jlam, and Brian S.), listening to talks about various things, and having something to do when I go somewhere and travel.
Also if you're doing something interesting, give a talk! NetBSD does tons of amazing work that no one knows about. :)
Labels: NetBSD
