From skreuzer at exit2shell.com Fri Aug 1 10:55:03 2014 From: skreuzer at exit2shell.com (Steven Kreuzer) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 10:55:03 -0400 Subject: [talk] Samsung Chromebook2 Message-ID: I was just browsing through the commits for FreeBSD-CURRENT and stumbled across this change: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=269369 In the past there has been a lot of interest in running FreeBSD on cheap netbooks (Anyone remember the Asus Eee PC?) so I figured I would pass this along since the Chromebook2 is a $320 dollar ARM laptop: http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/chrome-os-devices/XE503C12-K01US -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justin at shiningsilence.com Fri Aug 1 12:54:45 2014 From: justin at shiningsilence.com (Justin Sherrill) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:54:45 -0400 Subject: [talk] Samsung Chromebook2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: FWIW, there's been some work on what I think is an older Chromebook model for DragonFly - http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/01/07/13078.html On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Steven Kreuzer wrote: > I was just browsing through the commits for FreeBSD-CURRENT and stumbled > across this change: > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=269369 > > In the past there has been a lot of interest in running FreeBSD on cheap > netbooks (Anyone remember the Asus Eee PC?) so I figured I would pass this > along since > the Chromebook2 is a $320 dollar ARM laptop: > http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/chrome-os-devices/XE503C12-K01US > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk at lists.nycbug.org > http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk From mark.saad at ymail.com Wed Aug 6 22:23:01 2014 From: mark.saad at ymail.com (Mark Saad) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 22:23:01 -0400 Subject: [talk] [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: All Thanks for coming out and partaking in , our first build your own port talk . There was no audio for the talk however brian will upload his notes . If You can , can you post your progress with your port , we would like to know if it's accepted , what it does and any issues you get back from the OpenBSD devs . Stay tuned for out September meeting. We have some ideas but we are always looking for new speakers . Also we should be at about.com for sept and we are still interested in an alternate location . --- Mark saad | mark.saad at ymail.com > On Aug 6, 2014, at 12:15 PM, NYC*BUG Announcements wrote: > > Please RSVP ASAP! > > August 6 - OpenBSD Ports, Brian Callahan > 6:45, about.com (1500 Broadway, 43rd Street, 6th Floor) > Notice: RSVP to rsvp at nycbug.org and bring photo ID. RSVPs must be > received by 3 PM, day-of. > > Abstract > > Everyone relies on packages and ports to have easily accessible > third-party software for OpenBSD. Have you ever wanted to write your own > ports? Bring your laptop and learn how ports are made! You can bring > your own software to port, or there will be a collection of software > ready to be ported. > > Those interested in taking part in the hands-on workshop should > email admin at lists.nycbug.org for setup instructions. Please also tell us > if you plan on porting software of your choosing. Please sign up for the > workshop no later than July 23. > > Even if you don't want to be involved in the workshop, come and > learn all about ports! > > This makes a great first foray into contributing back to OpenBSD. > > Speaker Bio > > Brian is a graduate student, beginning his Ph.D. work in Science and > Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Fall. He > is an OpenBSD developer, working primarily on ports. > _______________________________________________ > announce mailing list > announce at lists.nycbug.org > http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce From spork at bway.net Fri Aug 8 15:25:05 2014 From: spork at bway.net (Charles Sprickman) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 15:25:05 -0400 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD EC2 Crash Course? Message-ID: Hello all, I recently setup my first EC2 instance, and that was my very first foray into ?the cloud?. I am seeing a huge mound of documentation, I am not seeing a nice list of gotchas or a good overview of things like instance storage vs. EBS vs. ephemeral storage and such. I know there?s a few here that run things on a fairly large scale in Amazon?s cloud - I really only need a few cheap standalone instances. My concerns boil down to: ? How to never lose my public IPs ? How to safely backup the entire instance off-site (none are over 10G) ? Swap (seriously - even something this simple has caveats and apparently if you use EBS you can rack up a huge bill if something spins out of control and hits swap hard) ? Any FreeBSD-specific gotchas beyond Colin?s notes here: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ In short, I really want to just treat this more like a simple VPS instead of a puppet-ified cloudfront sharknado monster, and I want a recovery path if I break something. Any pointers? Thanks, Charles -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 495 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: From pete at nomadlogic.org Fri Aug 8 15:39:20 2014 From: pete at nomadlogic.org (Pete Wright) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:39:20 -0700 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD EC2 Crash Course? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53E52768.5070607@nomadlogic.org> On 8/8/14, 12:25 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently setup my first EC2 instance, and that was my very first foray into ?the cloud?. > > I am seeing a huge mound of documentation, I am not seeing a nice list of gotchas or a good overview of things like instance storage vs. EBS vs. ephemeral storage and such. > > I know there?s a few here that run things on a fairly large scale in Amazon?s cloud - I really only need a few cheap standalone instances. My concerns boil down to: > > ? How to never lose my public IPs take a look at using elastic IP addresses: https://aws.amazon.com/articles/1346 > ? How to safely backup the entire instance off-site (none are over 10G) this is possible, although i'd suggest *not* doing this since the infrastructure to back and restore instances is actually counter intuitive. with out getting into the nitty gritty details i'd suggest using tarsnap to backup your userland. > ? Swap (seriously - even something this simple has caveats and apparently if you use EBS you can rack up a huge bill if something spins out of control and hits swap hard) i generally take as many steps as humanly possibly to not swap on ec2. if that is not an option i'd suggest the following: -- install your instance on an ephemeral volume - then - -- create an EBS volume for your local userland and mount that --- this gives you the added benefit of snapshotting this volume for backup and sharing fun b/w multiple instance > ? Any FreeBSD-specific gotchas beyond Colin?s notes here: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ > Colin's notes are great for FreeBSD specifics. The AWS documentation is actually pretty great. > In short, I really want to just treat this more like a simple VPS instead of a puppet-ified cloudfront sharknado monster, and I want a recovery path if I break something. > > Any pointers? > i currently approach aws and ec2 in two ways: - spin up short lived instances on ephemeral disks for specific, short-term uses. for example, running a proxy in ireland or acting as a temp R&D playground. - build a VPC environment for longer-term development. VPC allows you to own your private subnets and keep things more...well private than standard ec2 instances. i usually do this on my companies dime since it had added costs. it is helpful though for doing a full lab buildout for R&D (for example wanted to demo a new version of my web+db stack). the last thing i'll note is that aside from spining up very short lived instances for personal use i tend to shy away from ec2 due to how easy it is to loose track of costs and get dinged by a bill if you are careless (like i often am :). hope this helps! -pete -- Pete Wright pete at nomadlogic.org twitter => @nomadlogicLA From bcallah at devio.us Fri Aug 8 20:54:25 2014 From: bcallah at devio.us (Brian Callahan) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:54:25 -0400 Subject: [talk] OpenBSD ports docs Message-ID: <53E57141.70207@devio.us> Hi everyone -- Followup from Wednesday night's meeting. Here's links to the OpenBSD FAQ section on ports and packages as well as the OpenBSD porter's handbook. Remember too there is man page documentation. You'll want to start with ports(7), which I've linked below as well, then move on to the other man pages in the SEE ALSO section. ~Brian http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/index.html http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man7/ports.7 From george at ceetonetechnology.com Tue Aug 26 12:08:52 2014 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:08:52 -0400 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks Message-ID: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> Just noticed this from a git update: https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd/tree/master/board/Chromebook I've seen a few posts from people running FreeBSD on Chromebooks... anyone onlist? Would be curious to hear more. Just noticed this in dmesgd... http://www.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2469 g From justin at shiningsilence.com Tue Aug 26 16:52:03 2014 From: justin at shiningsilence.com (Justin Sherrill) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:52:03 -0400 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks In-Reply-To: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> References: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> Message-ID: Answering a slightly different question than you asked: I am considering buying an Acer Chromebook c720p for DragonFly, since it's pretty well supported at this point other than sound: http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-August/128792.html A bunch of the problems reported there have been fixed. Adrian @FreeBSD has been talking about this and other driver stuff on #dragonflybsd, so this may make it 'over'. On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:08 PM, George Rosamond wrote: > Just noticed this from a git update: > > https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd/tree/master/board/Chromebook > > I've seen a few posts from people running FreeBSD on Chromebooks... > anyone onlist? > > Would be curious to hear more. > > Just noticed this in dmesgd... > > http://www.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2469 > > g > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk at lists.nycbug.org > http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk From george at ceetonetechnology.com Tue Aug 26 17:30:10 2014 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 17:30:10 -0400 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks In-Reply-To: References: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> Message-ID: <53FCFC62.4000903@ceetonetechnology.com> Justin Sherrill wrote: > Answering a slightly different question than you asked: I am > considering buying an Acer Chromebook c720p for DragonFly, since it's > pretty well supported at this point other than sound: > > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-August/128792.html > > A bunch of the problems reported there have been fixed. Adrian > @FreeBSD has been talking about this and other driver stuff on > #dragonflybsd, so this may make it 'over'. > Wow... very interesting. What is a "noisy" touchpad and touchscreen? One way to deal with shaky 802.11 is to use a USB wireless with a decent chipset. Let us know Justin. g From scottro at nyc.rr.com Tue Aug 26 18:46:31 2014 From: scottro at nyc.rr.com (Scott Robbins) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:46:31 -0400 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks In-Reply-To: <53FCFC62.4000903@ceetonetechnology.com> References: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> <53FCFC62.4000903@ceetonetechnology.com> Message-ID: <20140826224631.GA23375@scott1.scottro.net> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 05:30:10PM -0400, George Rosamond wrote: > Justin Sherrill wrote: > > > > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-August/128792.html > > > > A bunch of the problems reported there have been fixed. Adrian > > @FreeBSD has been talking about this and other driver stuff on > > #dragonflybsd, so this may make it 'over'. > > > > Wow... very interesting. > > What is a "noisy" touchpad and touchscreen? > > One way to deal with shaky 802.11 is to use a USB wireless with a decent > chipset. George, have you found one that constantly works? When I was trying to find one, prior to FreeBSD-10 coming out, there weren't very many available. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 From justin at shiningsilence.com Tue Aug 26 20:56:49 2014 From: justin at shiningsilence.com (Justin Sherrill) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:56:49 -0400 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks In-Reply-To: <53FCFC62.4000903@ceetonetechnology.com> References: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> <53FCFC62.4000903@ceetonetechnology.com> Message-ID: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:30 PM, George Rosamond wrote: > What is a "noisy" touchpad and touchscreen? My suspicion is that it's a voltage level issue, because the oversensitive touchpad effect was greatly lessened by going on battery, as reported on IRC - and there's people talking online of similar issues in Lenovos that have similar touchpad hardware. I think this was the fix: http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-August/270619.html > One way to deal with shaky 802.11 is to use a USB wireless with a decent > chipset. I'm curious the same as Scott - which are decent, in this case? From bcallah at devio.us Tue Aug 26 21:03:44 2014 From: bcallah at devio.us (Brian Callahan) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:03:44 -0400 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks In-Reply-To: References: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> <53FCFC62.4000903@ceetonetechnology.com> Message-ID: <53FD2E70.9020708@devio.us> On 08/26/14 20:56, Justin Sherrill wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:30 PM, George Rosamond > wrote: >> What is a "noisy" touchpad and touchscreen? > My suspicion is that it's a voltage level issue, because the > oversensitive touchpad effect was greatly lessened by going on > battery, as reported on IRC - and there's people talking online of > similar issues in Lenovos that have similar touchpad hardware. Just to toss another data point in: my Lenovo (ThinkPad EDGE E420) will become noisy over time. Eventually just hovering my hand over the trackpad will cause it to think it's in scroll mode. (eventually is on the order of days, but it's still annoying) > I think this was the fix: > http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-August/270619.html > >> One way to deal with shaky 802.11 is to use a USB wireless with a decent >> chipset. > I'm curious the same as Scott - which are decent, in this case? From bob at redivi.com Tue Aug 26 23:44:26 2014 From: bob at redivi.com (Bob Ippolito) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:44:26 -0700 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks In-Reply-To: <53FD2E70.9020708@devio.us> References: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> <53FCFC62.4000903@ceetonetechnology.com> <53FD2E70.9020708@devio.us> Message-ID: On Tuesday, August 26, 2014, Brian Callahan wrote: > > On 08/26/14 20:56, Justin Sherrill wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:30 PM, George Rosamond >> wrote: >> >>> What is a "noisy" touchpad and touchscreen? >>> >> My suspicion is that it's a voltage level issue, because the >> oversensitive touchpad effect was greatly lessened by going on >> battery, as reported on IRC - and there's people talking online of >> similar issues in Lenovos that have similar touchpad hardware. >> > > Just to toss another data point in: my Lenovo (ThinkPad EDGE E420) will > become noisy over time. Eventually just hovering my hand over the trackpad > will cause it to think it's in scroll mode. (eventually is on the order of > days, but it's still annoying) > I think a lot of the smarts for modern multitouch devices is in software and not implemented well outside of closed Mac/Windows drivers. Chromebook might be an exception, I haven't spent much time with one yet. -bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From george at ceetonetechnology.com Wed Aug 27 00:06:25 2014 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:06:25 -0400 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks In-Reply-To: <20140826224631.GA23375@scott1.scottro.net> References: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> <53FCFC62.4000903@ceetonetechnology.com> <20140826224631.GA23375@scott1.scottro.net> Message-ID: <53FD5941.5070008@ceetonetechnology.com> Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 05:30:10PM -0400, George Rosamond wrote: >> Justin Sherrill wrote: >>> >>> http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-August/128792.html >>> >>> A bunch of the problems reported there have been fixed. Adrian >>> @FreeBSD has been talking about this and other driver stuff on >>> #dragonflybsd, so this may make it 'over'. >>> >> >> Wow... very interesting. >> >> What is a "noisy" touchpad and touchscreen? >> >> One way to deal with shaky 802.11 is to use a USB wireless with a decent >> chipset. > > George, have you found one that constantly works? When I was trying to find > one, prior to FreeBSD-10 coming out, there weren't very many available. > there's tenda which uses run(4) Ralinks available at Microcenter. I had been using urtwn (OpenBSD) which were dodgy. My current bet is to trust run(4) on USB over anything else, including the stock card. g From scottro at nyc.rr.com Wed Aug 27 07:09:12 2014 From: scottro at nyc.rr.com (Scott Robbins) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:09:12 -0400 Subject: [talk] FreeBSD crochet & Chromebooks In-Reply-To: <53FD5941.5070008@ceetonetechnology.com> References: <53FCB114.6060407@ceetonetechnology.com> <53FCFC62.4000903@ceetonetechnology.com> <20140826224631.GA23375@scott1.scottro.net> <53FD5941.5070008@ceetonetechnology.com> Message-ID: <20140827110912.GA29694@scott1.scottro.net> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:06:25AM -0400, George Rosamond wrote: > Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 05:30:10PM -0400, George Rosamond wrote: > >> Justin Sherrill wrote: > >>> > >> > >> One way to deal with shaky 802.11 is to use a USB wireless with a decent > >> chipset. > > > > George, have you found one that constantly works? When I was trying to find > > one, prior to FreeBSD-10 coming out, there weren't very many available. > > > > there's tenda which uses run(4) Ralinks available at Microcenter. I had > been using urtwn (OpenBSD) which were dodgy. > Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 From mcevoy.pat at gmail.com Thu Aug 28 13:12:25 2014 From: mcevoy.pat at gmail.com (Patrick McEvoy) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:12:25 -0400 Subject: [talk] Sept meeting Message-ID: <53FF62F9.4040608@gmail.com> Do we have plans for the Sept meeting. I would like to get the word out / send a tweet out before the holiday weekend. Hope all is well. P From george at ceetonetechnology.com Thu Aug 28 13:14:48 2014 From: george at ceetonetechnology.com (George Rosamond) Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:14:48 -0400 Subject: [talk] Sept meeting In-Reply-To: <53FF62F9.4040608@gmail.com> References: <53FF62F9.4040608@gmail.com> Message-ID: <53FF6388.8090603@ceetonetechnology.com> Patrick McEvoy wrote: > Do we have plans for the Sept meeting. I would like to get the word out > / send a tweet out before the holiday weekend. Yes... we do. We are working on the next few meetings. We still need the title and spiel from the speaker from September... Thanks for the followup though. g