From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Aug 3 11:38:32 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 11:38:32 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wed: What's New with OpenBSD Message-ID: Wednesday, August 5 645 PM Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St What's new with OpenBSD Another year, another two releases for OpenBSD. Even for the best of us, it can be difficult to keep track of all the development activity. This talk highlights some of the big new things over the last year of OpenBSD. Hopefully by the end of the talk you will have learned about some new feature you didn't know about before. Bio Brian is a Ph.D. student in the Science and Technology Studies department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has been an OpenBSD developer for a few years, spending most of his time in the ports tree. One time he gave a talk at BSDCan with George. Ike was in attendance. ***** The second vBSDCon is coming up September 11-13 in Reston, Virginia. The topics have been announced: * Blacklist?d: A NetBSD project by Christos Zoulas * What is EdgeBSD by Pierre Pronchery * HardenedBSD Internals by Shawn Webb * Devio.us, the Free OpenBSD Shell Provider and Online BSD User Group: Technical and Social Lessons Learned from Half a Decade of Service by Brian Callahan and Bryce Chidester * Interesting Things You Didn?t Know You Could Do With ZFS by Allan Jude * FreeBSD Virtualization Options by Michael Dexter * Made to Measure: Network Performance Analysis in FreeBSD by George Neville-Neil and JimThompson * getdns, A New Stub Resolver by Willem Toorop * Improving MemGuard support for UMA on FreeBSD by Chang-Hsien Tsai From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Aug 5 11:01:03 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:01:03 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight: What's New with OpenBSD? Message-ID: August 5: What's New with OpenBSD, Brian Callahan 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St Abstract Another year, another two releases for OpenBSD. Even for the best of us, it can be difficult to keep track of all the development activity. This talk highlights some of the big new things over the last year of OpenBSD. Hopefully by the end of the talk you will have learned about some new feature you didn't know about before. Speaker Bio Brian is a Ph.D. student in the Science and Technology Studies department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has been an OpenBSD developer for a few years, spending most of his time in the ports tree. One time he gave a talk at BSDCan with George. Ike was in attendance. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Aug 23 21:04:09 2015 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:04:09 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: We have a good line-up for NYC... Aug 24: Classical Code Reading Group on true(1) and false(1) Sept 16: Ike Levy on OPNsense Oct 7: TBA Nov 19: Stephen R Bourne And note upcoming BSDCons vBSDCon September 11-13 http://vbsdcon.com/ EuroBSDCon October 3-4 https://2015.eurobsdcon.org/ BSDCon Brasil: October 9-10 http://2015.bsdcon.br/ ***** Some new BSD hackers are in town, and they import an event they have held in Scandinavia. We were excited to hear about the meeting content and form, and are happy to get the word out to the NYC*BUG lists: The search for truth: the `true` and `false` programs August 24, 7:00 PM thoughtbot, 1384 Broadway 20th Floor, New York, NY (map) This meetup will concentrate on simple and common commands: true and false. We will start with the OpenBSD true program and compare it to FreeBSD's, Solaris', GNU bash's, and GNU's. They all have different complexity, and some even have different features, which should provide for an interesting discussion. See the Meetup page for more details: http://www.meetup.com/Classical-Code-Reading-Group-of-New-York/events/224744308/ ***************** September 16: OPNsense: On the Shoulders of Giants, Isaac (.ike) Levy 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St Abstract OPNsense is a BSD-licensed, easy-to-use and easy-to-build FreeBSD-based firewall and routing platform. This presentation is a hands-on preview of OPNsense, and should appeal to a wide range of people looking for BSD based router and firewall platforms. Speaker Bio Isaac (.ike) Levy is a crusty UNIX Hacker. ike, a long-time pfSense user, has moved on to become a contributor to the OPNSense project. Ike has been focused on i18n work, and Japanese translations, and for his sins, has been hacking on AWS AMI builds: http://dotike.github.io/opnsense.core.ja_JP.UTF8/ In 2006, ike gave an overview on pfSense and it`s mother project m0n0wall, which were new and exciting router platforms back then, "throw your Linksys/SoHo/WiFi router in the garbage where it belongs" In 2010, ike gave an overview of life with pfSense in Datacenter/Large deployments, "you might wanna` put your Sonicwall/Juniper/Cisco routers up on Ebay." A long-time community contributor to the *BSD's, ike is obsessed with high-availability and redundant networked servers systems, mostly because he likes to sleep at night. Standing on the shoulders of giants, his background includes partnering to run a Virtual Server ISP before anyone called it a cloud, as well as having a long history building internet-facing infrastructure with UNIX systems. .ike has been a part of NYC*BUG since it was first launched in January 2004. He was a long-time member of the Lower East Side Mac Unix User Group, and is still in denial that this group no longer exists. He has spoken frequently on a number of UNIX and internet security topics at various venues, particularly on the topic of FreeBSD's jail(8). ***************** * October 7: TBA ***************** * November 19: Special Meeting, Stephen R. Bourne 18:45, TBA Notice: special meeting, not regular date Abstract my history and background how and why we had to re write the shell why I wrote my own memory management key language design decisions where those ideas came from what was hard to get right system changes we made to accommodate sh what the rules were in UNIX group what would I do differently today Speaker Bio Steve Bourne is computer scientist who is internationally known for his work on the UNIX operating system. While at Bell Laboratories, Steve designed the UNIX Command Language known as the "Bourne Shell". It is the standard command line interface to UNIX and is widely used today in scripting in the UNIX programming environment. Steve has a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from King's College London, England. He has a Diploma (or Master's degree) in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge. While at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory he worked on an ALGOL 68 compiler and CAMAL an early algebra system. After Cambridge, Steve spent nine years at Bell Labs with the Seventh Edition Unix team. As well as the Bourne shell, he wrote the adb debugger and published /The UNIX System/, the second book on the UNIX system, intended for a general readership. This book is recognized as a text for the effective use of UNIX. After Bell Labs, he spent 20 years in senior engineering management positions. At Cisco Systems, he was director of engineering for enterprise network management; at Sun Microsystems, he managed the Solaris 2.0 program; at Digital Equipment Corporation, he developed DEC's first RISC-based workstation; and at Silicon Graphics, he was Director of Software Engineering responsible for the introduction of the IRIS, the company's first graphics workstation. >From 2000 to 2002 he was President of the Association for Computing Machinery. For his work on computing he was made a Fellow of the ACM in 2005. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. At present Steve is chief technology officer at Rally Venture Partners, a Menlo Park-based venture capital group in California. He is also the chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for /ACM Queue/, a magazine he started when he was President of the ACM.