The other bit is that, having just released an Absolute OpenBSD update, his Absolute FreeBSD book will not see an update… until the FreeBSD installer gets more coherent.

(If you manage DNS in any fashion, buy DNSSEC Mastery.)

• On fat men and jellybeans, about how the press is reporting DDOS attacks.  Related: Reporting on tech stories is very difficult; there’s very little photogenic material.  I’d love to have more pictures on the Digest, but what would I show?
• Lisp: A Language for Stratified Design.  (PDF)  There’s got to be a few readers that will find this a very enjoyable read.  (via)
• If you’re using Google Chrome, check your extensions list.  Even though it’s not supposed to be possible, I had an spyware extension auto-install itself, from a page that I was going to link here – but now will not.
• Music From Mathematics.  Electronic music created with an IBM 7090.  (via)
• At first I was like “Yeah, yeah, another terminal emulator”, but then I watched the demo movie for Terminology and was quite impressed.  It doesn’t seem to exist in dports/pkgsrc yet.   (also via)
• April 1st always leads to a number of announcements of varying quality.  I like OpenBSD’s announcement, though.
• The Untold Story behind Apple’s $13000 Operating System.  The article hypes up something that wasn’t that exciting, but I like the pictures of the old Apple ][ material.  (via)
• Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me To Use Vim Was Wrong.  Spoiler: he uses Vim.  But:  The author makes a very good point about how to get there.  (via)
• How the Chess Set Got Its Look and Feel.
• HOWTO turn your shell prompt into a hamburger.  The advice is for a Unicode-friendly Mac shell; don’t know if this works on DragonFly.  (via)
• Start talking about nail polish, finish by talking about the limited 16-color palette of early PC computers.  (via)
• Hello World cake.  Based on a programming language called Chef where programs look like recipes.  I can’t  even make these things up.  (via)
• Dragonflies are Monsters.

Your unrelated link of the week: nothing.  I didn’t find anything off-the-wall enough to use here.  Geez.

• Puctuation obscurantism, punctuation humor; I like it all.  (via)
• Exporting your git repository.  Found while looking for something else.
• I want CTRL-D at a terminal to make something like this to happen.
• Visual Representation of Regular Expression Character Classes.  I like visual ways of classifying complex data.
• Speaking of which: Anatomy of Data.  Not sure how I found it.
• Digital Files and 3D Printing – In the Renaissance?  The title sounds a bit linkbaity, but the story of the 14th century map designed to be recreated with a graphing tool is pretty neat.
• Postgres: The Bits You Haven’t Found.  Advanced/odd Postgres usage.  (via)
• Breaking your arrow keys is the latest idea in improving Vim usage.
• PC-BSD is moving to a ‘rolling release’ format, and also using the new pkg tools that are also in DPorts.  Historic details on this new setup are available.
• Fred, taking off.
• Ten hours with the most inscrutable game of all time.  I like the idea of Dwarf Fortress more than I actually like playing it.  I’m somewhat afraid of it.  It looks like this sounds.
• That last comparison wasn’t necessarily fair, but it was fun.
• If I’m going to talk about music like that, I should link Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music.
• The Wizard of Pinball.  I just want my own standup pinball or arcade cabinet game.  Yes, yes, I know,  MAME cabinet.
• Appropriately this week, “Ball Saved”, page 1 and page 2 of a 2-page comic about pinball.
• UnReal World, an Iron-Age roguelike.  Apparently pretty brutal, and two decades in development.  Runs on several platforms, but not BSD.  (via)
• You Are Boring.  Some of the ‘boring’ items made me laugh.  (via)
• The first review of Michael W. Lucas’s Absolute OpenBSD, Second Edition is available.

Your unrelated link of the week: I’ve already been offbeat enough in this Lazy Reading; I don’t have anything else.

The OpenBSD ‘Papers’ page has some videos listed to match the OpenBSD-related presentations from EuroBSDCon 2012.

Not only does NetBSD support the BeagleBoard, but Michael Lorenz is committing from it.

FreeBSD has brought in a new version of bmake and jemalloc.  I’ve seen a number of other commits recently attributed to ‘NetApp’, which is good to see.  Also, preliminary USB support for boot loaders.

PC-BSD is looking to use pkgng, the same binary package manager used in John Marino’s DPorts.  It’s proving quite popular.

• Sometimes Google searches turn up DragonFly BSD in odd places.
• Wayland reached 1.0.   That’s great, except it isn’t ready for use yet, it’s just feature-stable.  I’d argue that means it’s ‘beta’, not 1.0, but there’s no hard and fast rules about that.  In any case, does it run on any BSD?  I don’t think so.
• OpenSSH server best practices.  Nothing too groundbreaking, but they include “BSD” (i.e. pf) examples.  I always like articles that don’t assume Linux is the only platform.  (via)
• The little SSH that (sometimes) couldn’t.  A heck of a network debugging exercise.  (via mat in #dragonflybsd)
• The AN/FSQ7, a computer I’m sure I’ve seen in movies a number of times.  (via)
• Here’s the OpenBSD slides from EuroBSDCon 2012.
• Oh look, Apple’s got “Fusion Drive“.  The cool people call it swapcache and have been using it for years, so there.
• Here’s an essay that starts out talking about Quantum Computing and moves into the ambivalence that quantum computing seems to entail instead of just noting the general scientific description and leaving it there.  It’s really quite enjoyable.
• Hey, maybe this is why Facebook reported earnings are up: they’re holding your own data hostage.  (via)
• Rob Pike on The Setup.  He makes a very good point about how we should access computers.  Also, here’s a recent, long slide show he put together about Go.  It describes solving some language problems that have been around a long time.   (via)
• I was halfway through reading that last slide show link and realized there’s no way I can explain how it was an worthwhile read to someone who hadn’t done some programming.  No link or conclusion, just an observation of how esoteric this is.  I hope you enjoy it.
• Essential Vim and Vi Skills has hit a 3rd edition.  I have this as a Kindle edition, and I’m not sure how that happened.
• Zork in Duplicity, or a bizarre finding of old UNIX history in a completely unrelated place.  (via)
• These OpenBSD thin clients are a neat idea.

Your unrelated link of the week: Delilah Dirk.  It’s a comic, and the story available to read online is about a tea merchant, which makes it exactly right.

• Homebrew Cray-1A.  Duplicating the internals is interesting in a “that’s crazy/difficult” way, but the case is the best part.  (via dfcat on #dragonflybsd)
• If you understand the structure of haiku, you can contribute to Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Ed.
• Here’s a browser-based roguelike called Second Wind, and another called Epilogue.  No particular reason to link to them other than I haven’t had much roguelikes linked recently.
• “The role of the troll in social media is to ruin that product.”  There’s a line that can be drawn to connect the idea of being esoteric enough that social networks (i.e. Facebook) don’t intrude on your interests, and the idea of being interested in BSD operating system creation.  What I’m saying is that BSD is less hyped, and thank goodness.
• Another social media caution: it’s their space, not yours, and they can boot you at any time. (via)
• Yeah, I’m getting curmudgeonly.  I’ll stop now.
• Go By Example.
• git-ftp, when the files you are working on are in a location only accessible by FTP – no git or ssh access.  This appears to copy them in and out as part of the commit/change process.  I can imagine a very specific workflow where this would be useful.  (via)
• Bash One-Liners, part 4.
• OS Upgrades powered by Git.  That’s a neat idea.  I don’t think you actually have to follow the link; that’s the whole concept right there.
• The Ultimate Vim Distribution.  (via)  I like how slick the single-line install methods are on these things…  but I want the number of packaging/install methods on every computer I administer to equal exactly 1, not (1 x number of installed programs).
• Why is Linux more popular than BSD?  Some of the answers are just plain wrong, or don’t understand causality… but that’s no surprise.  (via)
• Oh, hopefully this will solve the UEFI secureboot issue for DragonFly too.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week:  A CD that comes with its own turntable and record.  Kid Koala scrapes over culture to find mentions of vinyl and DJing the same way I scrounge the Internet for mention of BSD.  His “Nerdball” from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is an astonishing display  of turntable skill.

• Coming Home to Vim.  More tips than you can get through in one reading, I think.  (via)
• This is a time saver: Vim completion.  (via same place)
• You might be a Unix geek.  (again)
• Hey, this is a good idea: OpenBSD commits on Twitter.
• I miss cassettes.
• “BSD is a Microsoft plot” is the craziest thing I’ve heard in a while.
• I like this Kickstarter for a USB LED indicator, and not just because it includes the man page reference in the project name.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Crane Recursion.  (via)

• There is a certain subset of readers here that will find this fascinating: a video of a game postmortem.  Specifically, Elite.  (via)  Needs Flash.
• This is as good an article as any I’ve seen describing where the tablet computer market is going, at The Economist.
• Remember RetroBSD, mentioned here previously?  Here’s some discussion of it.
• EuroBSDCon’s 2011 conference is open for registration, but the early bird discount only lasts until the end of August, so jump on it soon if you’re thinking of going.  It’s the 10th anniversary of the event!
• PHP 5.3 is coming to pkgsrc as default, soon?  The PHP 5.2 -> 5.3 transition seems to mess up a lot of code because of some changes in the way things are handled, or at least that’s my experience, so watch out.
• Make sure you aren’t running mod_deflate on your Apache 2.x server.
• Kristaps Dzonsons, the fellow behind mdocml (which is in DragonFly now and mentioned here before) is working on a mdoc manual.  It’s an actual book, with examples.  It’s titled “Practical UNIX Manuals: mdoc”, which sounds like part of a series, though I don’t know if there’s anything else.  I’d sure like it if there was.  (via Undeadly.)  Look very closely at the mdoc web page and you will see the markup, too.  Neat!
• Breakout treated as a musical instrument, in 1983.  That’s too glib a summary of this explanation of an old book studying the game Breakout and playing it.  Really, read the article, and remember that the book described would just be lost in a sea of blog posts noise today.  (via)

Your unrelated comic link of the week: Wonderella.  This is the comic that ruined Batman for me.  I can’t unthink it.