BSD

At his talk on the History of the BSD Daemon at this year’s BSDCan conference, Kirk McKusick announced the availability of a “478-piece lazer-cut puzzle” from Liberty Puzzles. Intrigued, I plopped down the money and, within a few days, my puzzle arrived. Figure 1: The Box Fresh out of the box, a pleasant aroma, vaguely reminiscent of a campfire greeted my senses. Figure 2: The Jumble ... Read more …

Get Those Dawgies Rollin’… I’ve been working on getting this blogging solution set up for several days. It’s such a chore: Decide to use a commercial service or not (not) Decide to use proprietry software or not (not) Research the hundres of available blogging sofware projects. This is what took a lot of time. Download, install, RTFM, tryout, test, wobble, crash, repeat. I finally decided on Hugo and it’s pretty good, although it is a lot of reading and tinkering with various themes. ... Read more …