Saturday, May 10, 2008

Pardon our dust

Sorry for the long-delayed conclusion of the Web filter evasion series and the severe lack of updates in general. I am working on the web filter evasion article now.

Life gets kind of crazy sometimes, and right now is crunch time on many levels in my personal and family life, to say nothing of the other writers' situations.

Among the mess, I'd been having trouble actually finding time to DO the kinds of things I like to write about here. Without ideas, hands-on tinkering, and consumption of new (and ye-olde) media, hammering out content first becomes mundane without fresh ideas, then becomes difficult to impossible as motivation fades away.

All this to say, pardon our dust while we gather our thoughts.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Reminder - 2600 Meeting - May 2, 2008

The meeting usually starts around 5:00PM at the Oak Park Mall food court in Overland Park, KS -- the north entrance between Macy's and Dillard's. Look for nerds. If you see any three of the following items at one table, you've found us.

  • MacBook
  • PDA
  • Guy wearing a black t-shirt
  • Strange, smallish antennae
  • Backpacks
  • Any O'Reilly and Associates Book

OpenBSD 4.3 Released Today

I haven't gotten to play with it yet, since I'm still downloading it. I plan on doing a snapshot and upgrading my OpenBSD Parallels VM tomorrow.

Highlights:

  • Now supports SMP on most Sparc64 platforms
  • Loads of device driver improvements (and additions) for most architectures
  • Built-in SNMP Support (no more need for net-snmp)
  • Disks/Partitions/Filesystems larger than 2TB are supported for ffs
  • Scads of little bugfixes
See the OpenBSD 4.3 Release Notes for details.