News
Yet more OpenSSH tricks
Robert de Bock has a number of OpenSSH tricks up on Undeadly. The first one, ‘Using SSH Keys‘, should be required reading.
New Bluetooth to test
Dmitry Komissaroff has a new version of his Bluetooth port available for testing.
Conferences, conferences
The Call for Papers is out for the 2008 USENIX technical conference, and registration is open for Software Development West 2008. The papers for USENIX are due in early January.
pkg_search available
Matthias Schmidt wrote a ‘pkg_search‘ utility that runs a bit more easily than ‘bmake search’ for finding packages in pkgsrc. It’s available from his site, which has a number of other utilities and papers on it worth reading.
How-to on Qemu
Francois Tigeot posted a writeup on how to get Qemu running well on DragonFly.
Progression to free
It was recently noted that the BBC created their own version of an “On Rails” system, using Perl. While it’s not that dramatic, as similar and highly polished systems already exist, it’s interesting to see that larger corporations seem to always progress towards, not away from, open source and sharing code.
Sound support updates
Hasso Tepper has committed all the recent changes to sound infrastructure in FreeBSD-6 to DragonFly; this improves sound support on a number of different laptops.
New Bluetooth stack to try
Dmitry Komissaroff has created a new version of the Bluetooth stack, with a version ready to test. Among other changes, it’s now possible to use a cellphone via Bluetooth to establish a PPP connection. There are other caveats.
AsiaBSDCon 2008: Paper deadline
AsiaBSDCon 2008 is scheduled for March 27-30 in Tokyo. The deadline for paper proposals has been pushed to December 11th, and there is a mailing list for further announcements - check the official website for more information.
At last, a conclusive correlation
According to Google image search, this very Digest has something to do with boobs. If this trend continues, I predict a significant increase in traffic. And disappointed visitors. (via Joerg Sonnenberger, who is apparently the common thread)