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[20081210]	Wordle of my blog OK, I haven't seen this before, and find it funny (click to enlarge): What's that? According to the Wordle homepage, ``Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.'' Just like the tag cloud of my blog... :-) [Tags: images, wordle]
[20080311]	Beetlebum's pictures for the Chemnitz Linux Tag 2008 Oliver Herold wrote me that Johannes Kretzschmar, graphics artist and maker of beetlebum.de has made a series of pictures featuring Tux and the BSD Daemon for the past Chemnitz Linux Tag 2008. The images are available on F!XMBR for vieweing and also for download in high-resolution formats (Mirrors: my BSD daemon archive, Axel Gruner's site). The images are available under a Creative Commons license. A few teasers: Check F!XMBR for more! [Tags: images]
[20070801]	Emulating OpenMoko on NetBSD using Qemu OpenMoko is a mobile phone that was designed to run open source software (i.e. Linux :). There are some ideas to port NetBSD to that platform, but until there's hardware available, Noud de Brouwer pointed me at instructions on emulating the OpenMoko hardware in Qemu, using software available in pkgsrc-wip. Includes links to a number of screenshots, showing Qemu-Neo1973 running OpenMoko/Linux on NetBSD. [Tags: images, openmoko, qemu]
[20070618]	Remembering our old logo BLDGLOG has an article that reminds me of our old logo... anyone got a bunch of daemons and a flag? :-) [Tags: bldgblog, images, logo]
[20070508]	Screenshots: Xen with HVM and Windows In case you always wondered what NetBSD with Xen and hardware virtualization (HVM) looks like, check out these pictures showing installation of Windows XP and Windows 2003 on a system running a NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 Dom0 with Xen 3.0.4. [Tags: images, xen]
[20061123]	Digest: ssshfs, NAMP VMware image, Segvguard, BSDtalk and a daemonic bag OK, I'm too lazy to put this into separate items, so here's the stuff from today in one digest: There was some progress on puffs, the userland filesystem stemming from last year's Google SoC, some time ago. More example userland filesystems are now available with sysctlfs and ssshfs, see src/share/examples/puffs. Rumours say that ssshfs works pretty well, which is a final reason to ditch the (abandoned first cut of the) netbsd-4 branch and make a -current kernel to play with this. BTW, for those wondering what ssshfs is, see ssshfs.c: * simple sshfs * (silly sshfs? stupid sshfs? snappy sshfs? sucky sshfs? seven sshfs???) * (sante sshfs? severed (dreams) sshfs? saucy sshfs? sauerkraut sshfs?) People complained that there's no ready-made VMware image with NetBSD available, and this has changed now. The #NetBSD blog points at a NAMP (NetBSD + Apache + MySQL + PostgreSQL + PHP) image that has quite a lot of software installed in 187MB size. See the arudius homepage for more information on NAMP. Elad, chief security hacker of NetBSD's infrastructure has proposed to add PaX Segvguard as yet another building stone in NetBSD's security architecture: PaX Segvguard monitors the number of segfaults in a program per-user, in an attempt to detect on-going exploitation attempts and possibly prevent them. One common attack PaX Segvguard can help mitigate is when an attacker tries to brute-force a function return address, when wanting to perform a return-to-lib attack. See Elad's proposal for more details! Note that a start of the implementation is already in NetBSD-current, but that this is still work-in-progress. BSDtalk did an interview with pkgsrc developer Johnny Lam (jlam@), it's available in mp3 and ogg. Last, if you don't know what to wish for Xmas, there's something for the average BSD geek: a daemon-themed bag (which is probably not really authorized by the Daemon owner, but well). [Tags: bsdtalk, images, puffs, Security, segvguard, ssh, vmware]
[20061115]	Search-engine for pkgsrc in Firefox 2 The NetBSD.se team has a nice frontend to pkgsrc, and Viktor Homlund from the NetBSD.se team wrote me that there's a search-engine plugin for pkgsrc.se in Firefox 2 now available. Available are searches in comments, for maintainers and a general package search. For those not sure what this is about: you probably know the Google search box in Firefox. This can replaced with other search engines in FF2, and there's your favourite cool aid now. See the upper right corner of this screenshot for how it looks, and what it returns. [Tags: firefox, images, pkgsrc]
[20061113]	NetBSD Live! CD 2007 available (Updated) NetBSD doesn't have an official Live CD as part of the project, but there are several ones from 3rd parties. Jörg Braun from the german publisher "Computer und Literaturverlag" (C&L) has previously made a NetBSD Live! CD which was available via the C&L FreeX magazine. Jörg has now updated his Live CD to this millennium's state of NetBSD, and released the 2007 Edition of his NetBSD Live! CD. The CD is based on NetBSD 4.0_BETA/i386 and offers a full desktop environment by using a compressed filesystem, which includes KDE, Abiword, Dia, Inkscape, GIMP, Firefox, xmms and many more. Please note that the CD was assembled the previous weekend, and that some newssites prematurely announced this. As a result, some people may have a file with the wrong checksum - the correct MD5 hash is "22a7496a2bb37910aeb312d053755a2a". Thanks to Jörg Braun, Rosa Riebl all the folks at C&L for their longtime support of NetBSD, and also to Michael Schneider, Daniel Sieger, Martin Laubach and Florian Stöhr for their help in translating the German-language README file into english. The CD is made available for everyone at no cost, please note that commercial distribution requires a license from C&L. Available files include: a torrent file for downloading with Bittorrent (recommended) an ISO file the MD5 checksum a README in English and German language. Enjoy! Update: Chris from The Coding Studio let us know that he has a screenshot walkthrough of the Live CD's startup and operation. Show this to everyone who wonders what NetBSD looks like! [Tags: images, live-cd]
[20060930]	Buttons: NetBSD News Beat and my NetBSD blog After updating the 'see also' section of the NetBSD Changes page today, I found that there's no nice "button" available for the NetBSD News Beat on www.onetbsd.org. While there, I also made one for my weblog, too. Here they are: Enjoy! [Tags: banners, buttons, images]
[20060828]	The power of sudo(8) [Tags: funny, images, sudo]
[20060731]	What you can do with a NetBSD live CD Found on FlickR: Apparently someone used a NetBSD 1.6 Live(!) CD to setup a router, and got (at least) 179 days uptime with it: [Tags: images, live-cd]
[20060712]	Your personal NetBSD collage Pienjo mentioned a website on IRCnet #NetBSD that let's you create your own themed collages, e.g. for BSD and NetBSD. Nice! [Tags: images]
[20060705]	By the German Department for Keyboard Usage <de> </de> (SCNR... translation: More than 70 million Germans don't use a console. Don't click yourself away! -- an Initiative of the German Department for Keyboard Usage, and not to be taken serious!) [Tags: fun, images]
[20060531]	It came from berkeley... ... the thing that ate redmond! (mentioned by innes on IRCnet #NetBSD) [Tags: funny, images]
[20060530]	BSD images Dennis Wecker pointed me at two webpages for BSD images: BSDnexus and UnixProgram. I think I've seen the former before, but the latter's new and contains a few gems. [Tags: funny, images]
[20060308]	NetBSD at the Chemnitz Linuxdays (Updated) There's a NetBSD booth at the Chemnitz Linuxtays and Stefan Schumacher has posted a bunch of first pictures. Lots of action going oin here, I'll post more later. If you're bored, drop by! Update: Stefan added more pictures to the above page, and there are also more pictures by lay. [Tags: Advocacy, images]
[20060205]	More Xen screenshots and documentation Rainer Brinkmöller has compiled information and screenshots on Xen on his homepage, showing NetBSD running as Domain0 and DomainU with several applications. [Tags: images, xen]
[20060130]	Installing NetBSD on the Soekris net4801 There's a nice webpage that tells how to netboot your Soekris net4801 from an Mac (running MacOS X) and putting NetBSD on it. Includes some fancy pictures. [Tags: embedded, Hardware, images, soekris]
[20060129]	Horned chicks OK, they have horns, they are red, so they have to be linked here: Lookerland is an ``online collection of super sexy funky cool vector pinup illustrations''. Yup, exactly that. But... if you're easily concerned about X-rated contents, maybe don't follow this, everyone else check out the devlish girls at Lookerland! (There are also some chicks with attitude, but I guess we've got enough of that on our own, thanks :-) (attitude, that is) [Tags: funny, images]
[20060120]	A pkgsrc wallpaper (Update #2) I made this quite some time ago, and tripped over it while playing around with the xfe file manager... enjoy. (All trademarks and copyrights and whatnot are of course acknowledged :-) Update: The image now also includes fred. (Obviously that image was made before DFBSD went pkgsrc) Update #2: The pkgsrc 'cube' logo was made by Timo Schoeler and posted to tech-pkg some time ago, the copyright is with him and I hope he won't rip off my head for forgetting to mention this! [Tags: images, pkgsrc, wallpaper]
[20060118]	I wish I was a daemon... (Update) yuck! (Penguin disguised in BSD-red dress) Update: If you still think the idea's good to dress penguins in funny colors, and you want to do your little bird a favour, you can knit them their personal penguin jumpers! Thanks to George Michaelson for the link! :) [Tags: daemon, images, penguin]
[20051202]	BSD wallpapers Notes by Geert Hendrickx: get them from BSDnexus.com [Tags: images, wallpaper]
[20051116]	Some wallpapers If you're still looking for some nice wallpapers (i.e. an image to put on your desktop background), have a look at this collection, found in the #NetBSD Community Blog, which has even more. :-) [Tags: images]
[20051010]	Wanted: "Powered by NetBSD" logo After going over logo uselines with another project recently, I stumbled across the NetBSD Logo Usage Guideline tonight. It seems there is a "Powered by NetBSD" Logo mentioned, but ... noone has made one yet! Any takers? Send them to www@, and if you're lucky it may get chosen! Feel free to bounce copies to netbsd-advocacy@ as well, for public entertainment & discussion. [Tags: images, logos]
[20050727]	Daemonic sex toy That image on that vending machine looks familiar... if you want your own vending machine for this kind of toys, check out the vendor's homepage. Now, really... this looks like not the thing the BSD daemon should be used. I wonder what Kirk McKusick thinks... [Tags: funny, images]
[20050616]	Banners: support NetBSD Following the recent pledge for money, Mike M. Volokhov made some banners to call for people to support NetBSD, for placing them on their own webpages, and refer to the NetBSD page for donations. Nice examples of Mike's work are here and here. [Tags: donations, images, logos]
[20050531]	The UNIX Dance Bar (Updated) I guess I'll go and celebrate now, and I already found the right place (well, at least an image of it ;). Update: Michael Engel sent me two updates: First there's really a UnixBar in Marburg, Germany, and there's also a (well, sort of :-) portable VAXbar. [Tags: funny, images]
[20050520]	Bouncing ideas for a pkgsrc logo After I've thought a bit about a logo for pkgsrc, with some emphasis of making it resemble some of the properties of the new NetBSD logo, there was quite some discussion on tech-pkg@, with a number of interesting suggestions. I already have a personal favourite. [Tags: images, logos, pkgsrc]
[20050519]	RAID explained ...(Update #2) ... visually. Update #1: The link is currently broken, anyone got a copy? Update #2: Thanks to Geert Hendrickx, here is a mirror, powered by NetBSD/sparc! :) [Tags: funny, images, raid]
[20050508]	Wallpapers After a NetBSD wallpaper was submitted to for inclusion into the logo-page, I took a look at it and found quite a number of new NetBSD wallpapers there. I esp. love the ones by Turea Alexandru Teodor: dmesg-on-worldmap, NetBSD-in-silicone and a nice poster - where can I order that NetBSD box? :) [Tags: images]
[20050424]	NetBSD skin for XMMS Pierrick Brossin has made a NetBSD skin for XMMS. See his posting, which includes a screenshot. [Tags: images, xmms]
[20050414]	Bus error... ... all passengers dumped! (SCNR) [Tags: funny, images]
[20050409]	Xen in action: Live CD screenshot I've played with a beta-version of the Xen Live CD, and I have added a screenshot to the NetBSD in Action gallery: ``The screenshot shows a Xen "domain0" virtual machine, with four other virtual machines started (see domain overview in the lower right corner): on the left side are two domains running NetBSD, with two xterms showing the console of the VMs, and VNC clients used to access the Xvnc servers running in those VMs, providing a GUI to them. A similar setup is shown on the upper right corner, which has booted Debian Linux, both with console in xterm and a VNC client to access the Xvnc server, too. The last VM runs FreeBSD as console only, with no X(vnc) started.'' Became curious? Check out NetBSD/xen! (The Live CD's URL was requested not to be spread because it is still beta - I'll sure post the URL once it's released!) [Tags: images, live-cd, xen]
[20050301]	Daemon-Kitty I was looking for some cheap(er) plush daemons, and came across this Hello Kitty mod. Fun! :) Unfortunately not available in masses, and not genuine BSD enough. If someone knows a cheap(er than Freibergnet) source of stuffed/plush daemons w/o "FreeBSD" printed on them, please let me know. [Tags: funny, images]
[20041210]	Graph of NetBSD's rc.d startup items I was asked about a graph of NetBSD's rc.d startup items and their interdependencies. I've written a small script that prepares a "dot" (part of graphviz) file, which can be used to plot the resulting graph. [Tags: images, rc.d]
[20041129]	Owning SCO While talking about SCO, it seems they finally admit that they own all our code and that we shall pay them all our money. [Tags: images, sco, Security]
[20041126]	Musing about BSD history Philosophing a bit about the history of the various BSD derivates, I tried making an image for better understanding, and from that picture it seems BSD isn't much better than Linux, with bazillions of splits and forks, and new versions here and dead old versions there. Looking closer, it seems that only some of the BSD projects can't manage their own userbase and developers, forcing to fork again and again though, while others provide a stable platform that's fit everyone's need with (almost cough) no need for forking. Go figure! [Tags: bsd, history, images]