bsdtalk156 - NYCBSDCon Update with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer

An update on NYCBSDCon 2008 with Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer. More information on the conference can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/

File Info: 15Min, 7MB

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk156/bsdtalk156.ogg

bsdtalk 155 - Martin Tournoij from DaemonForums.org

A brief interview with Martin Tournoij, one of the founders of DaemonForums.org.

File info: 7min, 3MB

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk155/bsdtalk155.ogg

bsdtalk154 - Matthew Dillon

An interview with Matthew Dillon. He gives a fairly technical description of the HAMMER filesystem features that will make it in the DragonflyBSD 2.0 release.

File info: 30Min, 14MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk154/bsdtalk154.ogg

bsdtalk153 - Michael W. Lucas

Interview with Michael W. Lucas at BSDCan 2008. We talk about some of his books and strategies for writing technical publications.

File Info: 12Min, 6MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk153/bsdtalk153.ogg

bsdtalk152 - A Few FreeBSD Core Team Members

An interview with a few of the FreeBSD Core Team members: Warner Losh, George V. Neville-Neil, Murray Stokely, Hiroki Sato, Robert Watson, Brooks Davis, and Philip Paeps. The interview was recorded at BSDCan2008 in Ottawa, Cananda.

File Info: 26Min, 12MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk152/bsdtalk152.ogg

bsdtalk151 - Sean Cody from Frantic Films VFX

Interview with Sean Cody at BSDCan2008. We talk about his use of BSD at a visual effects studio.

File Info: 13Min, 6MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk151/bsdtalk151.ogg

bsdtalk150 - Alex Feldman from Sangoma

A quick book review of "Building a Server with FreeBSD 7" by Bryan J. Hong.

Interview at BSDCan2008 with Alex Feldman from Sangoma.

File Info: 9Min, 4MB.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk150/bsdtalk150.ogg

bsdtalk149 - Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation

I'm having a great time at BSDCan 2008 in Ottawa.

Interview with Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation.

File Info: 11Min, 5MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk149/bsdtalk149.ogg

bsdtalk148 - Jeremy White, Founder of CodeWeavers

News: OpenBSD 4.3 Released.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone this month at BSDCan.

Interview with Jeremy White, Founder of CodeWeavers. We talk about the recent availability of an experimental build of Crossover Games for BSD.

File Info: 16Min, 7MB

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk148/bsdtalk148.ogg

bsdtalk147 - FreeBSD Developer Alexander Motin

Interview with FreeBSD Developer Alexander Motin. We talk about mpd, the netgraph based Multi-link PPP Daemon. For more information, see http://mpd.sourceforge.net/.

File Info: 16Min, 8MB

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk147/bsdtalk147.ogg

bsdtalk146 - James Cornell

What are your favorite BSD web sites?

A story about shopping for BSD.

Another interview with Sysadmin James Cornell. We talk about BSD, OpenSolaris, and Linux on the desktop.

File Info: 20Min, 9MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk146/bsdtalk146.ogg

bsdtalk145 - Adam Wright from No Starch Press

Intro: Some musings on the consistency and simplicity of BSD.

A brief interview with Adam Wright from No Starch Press, recorded by Micheal Dexter on behalf of BSDTalk. They talk about recent and future BSD books.

File Info: 8Min, 4MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk145/bsdtalk145.ogg

bsdtalk144 - Dan Langille

Interview with Dan Langille. We talk about his new job with Afilias, and BSDCan 2008.

File info: 22Min, 10MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk144/bsdtalk144.ogg

bsdtalk143 - BSD Hobbiest Deborah Norling

Interview with Deborah Norling. We talk about her use of BSD on old hardware, accessibility on the BSDs, and Simh (http://simh.trailing-edge.com).

File info: 23Min, 10MB.

Ogg link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk143/bsdtalk143.ogg

Note: The first set of audio files that I posted were accidentally exported from an intermediate working set that didn't have the audio levels adjusted. I have posted the proper files. My apologies to Deborah, and to the listening audience.

bsdtalk142 - FreeBSD Lead Release Engineer Ken Smith

Interview with FreeBSD Lead Release Engineer Ken Smith.

File Info: 16Min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk142/bsdtalk142.ogg

bsdtalk141 - PBI 4 with Kris Moore

Interview with PC-BSD founder Kris Moore about the new features in PBI 4.

File Info: 10Min, 5MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk141/bsdtalk141.ogg

bsdtalk140 - The Mult Project with Kristaps Dzonsons

Interview with Kristaps Dzonsons.

We talk about the Mult project, which is "an on-going research project to create a high-performance instance multiplicity system." You can find more information at http://mult.bsd.lv/. He also gives a quick update on Sysjail.

File Info: 30Min, 14MB.

https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk140/bsdtalk140.ogg

bsdtalk139 - Dru Lavigne

Interview with Dru Lavigne. We talk about her new book "The Best of FreeBSD Basics" and also get an update on some other projects including BSD Certification.
See the following links for more information:

https://register.bsdcertification.org/register/get-a-bsdcg-id
http://reedmedia.net/books/freebsd-basics
http://www.osbr.ca

File Info: 14Min, 7MB.

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk139/bsdtalk139.ogg

bsdtalk138 - Central Syslog

News:
DesktopBSD 1.6 and FreeBSD 6.3 released.

Setting up a central syslog server.

• If you are concerned about the security of your logs, use a dedicated machine and lock it down.
• Keep clocks in sync.
• You may need to change log rotation schedule in /etc/newsyslog.conf. You can rotate based in size and/or time. This can be as much a policy decision as a hardware decision.
• On central log host, change syslogd flags to listen to network. Each BSD does this differently, so check the man pages. Also, check out the -n flag for busy environments.
• Make sure host firewall allows syslog traffic through.
• Be careful to limit syslog traffic to just the trusted network or hosts. FreeBSD man page refers to syslogd as a "remote disk filling service".
• For heavy logging environments, it is important to have a dedicated network. A down syslogd server can create a lot of "ARP who-has" broadcasts.
• Most network devices such as printers and commercial firewalls support sending to a central syslog server. Take a look at "Snare" for Windows hosts.
• To send messages from a Unix host, specify the host name prepended with @ instead of a file for logging in /etc/syslog.conf. For example, change /var/log/xferlog to @loghost.mydomain.biz. You can also copy and edit the line to have it log to both a local file and a remote host.

File Info: 7Min, 3MB

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk138/bsdtalk138.ogg

bsdtalk137 - Open Community Camp with Marten Vijn

Happy New Year. I had fun bringing some old Cobalt RaQ2 devices back to life with NetBSD 4.0.

Interview with Marten Vijn about www.OpenCommunityCamp.org.

File Info: 13Min, 6MB

Ogg Link:
https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk137/bsdtalk137.ogg