This episode is brought to you by biff, a utility that notifies you that mail has arrived. The biff command appeared in 4.0BSD.
Interview with M. Warner Losh about FreeNAS 8. More information at http://freenas.org.
File Info: 37Min, 18MB.
Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk197/bsdtalk197.ogg
Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems.
4 comments:
Actually, biff *does not* notify you of anything. It merely sets the X bit on your tty, which then tells comsat that it's allowed to notify you when sendmail notifies it that you have new mail. (xbiff, on the other hand, does notify you and polls your mailbox to do so.) Incidentally, COMSAT was the name of the mail daemon under ITS -- not sure if Eric intended to make that reference.
Thanks for pointing that out...
Get a pop filter for the guest microphone. Please. Otherwise it's like having someone spitting in your ears.
Awesome: FreeNAS, Django, Nanobsd, python ... all good stuff
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