Thursday, April 27, 2006

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

bsdtalk035 - Interview with NetBSD Core Group Member Matt Thomas

News: New "FreeBSD for all" Podcast, http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com

Interview with NetBSD Core Group Member Matt Thomas.

File info: 8MB, 17 Minutes.

Friday, April 21, 2006

bsdtalk034 - Interview with Mark Brewer from Covalent Technologies

News:
  • FreeBSD and NetBSD released first quarter status reports for 2006
  • OpenBSD has had some nice donations from Mozilla and GoDaddy.com
  • I won't be able to make it to BSDCan in May, but i'm willing to post any interview you can get at the event

Interview with Mark Brewer from Covalent Technologies.

Monday, April 17, 2006

bsdtalk033 - Interview with Thomas Sha from Yahoo

Interview with Thomas Sha, Director of Presentation Platform Engineering at Yahoo Inc. about the Yahoo User Interface Library.

Sunday, April 09, 2006

bsdtalk031 - Interview with Peter Hofer from DesktopBSD

Statistics: mp3 requests the the last 20 days of March by operating system.
2543 Linux, 1 Irix, 21 SunOS, 2847 BSD, 3279 Macintosh, 11340 Windows.

Interview with Peter Hofer from DesktopBSD

Friday, April 07, 2006

bsdtalk030 - Interview with Devon O'Dell and Jason Dixon

News: The FreeBSD Foundation announces Java downloads.

Interview with Devon O'Dell and Jason Dixon at the LinuxWorld Expo in Boston.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

bsdtalk028 - Interview with Liam Foy

News: According to distrowatch.com Weekly, ISO images of the 1.0 Release of DesktopBSD have started to hit the mirrors.

Interview: Liam Foy, who is porting CARP to NetBSD and also the creator of www.bsdportal.org.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

bsdtalk025 - Thin Clients with XDMCP

Thin Clients with XDMCP:
  • edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and Xaccess.
  • connect from thin client using "X -query server-ip".

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

bsdtalk024 - Interview with TiddlyWiki creator Jeremy Ruston

Command line tip: viewing one page at at time with "ps ax | more"

Interview with TiddlyWiki creator Jeremy Ruston

Friday, March 10, 2006

bsdtalk023 - Interview with OpenBSD developer Henning Brauer

Man page tips:
  • Search the man pages for keywords, for example "man -k process"
  • Select the right section, for example "man 5 crontab"
Interview with OpenBSD developer Henning Brauer

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

bsdtalk021 - Interview with Stephen Jones of SDF

Interview with Stephen Jones of SDF. Super Dimension Fortress provides free shell accounts at http://www.freeshell.org

Thursday, February 23, 2006

bsdtalk020 - Insecure Sharing with NFS

News:
  • FreeBSD 6.1 and 5.5 Beta2
  • BSDCan program released

Insecure Sharing with NFS:
  • Very insecure, home net behind firewall only!
  • NFS server should start portmap, mountd, lockd
  • NFS server should add a folder to /etc/exports
  • NFS client should mount server:/folder /mnt
  • OSX required mount_nfs -P
  • Tools: rpcinfo -p server, showmount -e server
  • User ID Sync is a problem

Friday, February 17, 2006

bsdtalk018 - Interview with Kirk McKusick

Interview with Marshall Kirk McKusick, Computer Scientist and early BSD developer at UC Berkeley.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

bsdtalk017 - Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long

Interview with FreeBSD Release Engineer Scott Long.

(Did I call it FreeBSDTalk in the intro? Oops!)