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FOAF diary of a kernel hacker Saturday, April 1st, 2006 New laptop, and binary blob support thanks Project Evil! OK, I didn't get much at the pawn shop for all the gear, in particular, no one saw much value in the Sun's. The first problem I noticed was that the wireless card wasn't working. Thankfully, ethernet worked, but being tethered just isn't my thing.
in the past I've harped on binary blobs and encouraged activism measures, not supporting uncooperative hardware vendors and so on, but desparate times call for desparate measures. After all, sometimes you just want do some couch surfing without involving a television! At any rate, I've gone ahead and added FreeBSD's ndisulator to the base OpenBSD install.
wpaul's Project Evil is BSD licensed, therefore it must be OK. At the least, Bill certainly has done his share to get ethernet vendors to open up in the past, so this is probably part of an ultimate strategy somewhere and not just because he needed to use wireless at work on his OS of choice. Anyway, I'm sure him calling it Project Evil isn't reflective of anything bad. I can turn WPA-2 on my access point now that this windows driver supports it! I don't even remember why I needed it, particularly with the improved ipsec tools, and now OpenSSH layer 2 tunneling, but whatever more features is more better!
I'm going to have the head of Mathieu Sauve-Frankel (msf@) for his involvement in this! This can't go on - I have to keep the project going, no matter what the cost! I am selling off all of my hardware and will trade it in for a cheap laptop to make sure that we go on, fixing bugs, with or without donations even if I end up on the street mooching free wifi to keep things running.
Maybe I had one drink too many, or more appropriately - I think I had less in the rainy day fund than I thought. Crap, until further notice this means I need to get a 9-5 job, OpenBSD production is going to be on hold until someone comes up with enough funds!
Leave a comment) FTP releases to be delayed until next CD set released This lack of beer money situation needs to be stopped. I can't dip into the rainy day savings for that, and I don't even want to think about putting an end to the hackathons. I gave Bob a call to let him know that we won't be making 39 available for ftp until the 40 CD's are out. He suggested we just block connections from IBM, Sun, Apple, etc. He knows just as well as I how ineffective that would be so it didn't take much convincing. In the meantime, maybe I could dip into that rainy day money for just one drink.
Leave a comment) Trickle of donations I checked the post. A donation came in, I know that every bit counts, and today I've been sending out thank you emails to those who have donated as positive reinforcement. That said, it's hard not to look a gift horse in the mouth when you see a check for $5 CDN. For that expense, I think I like it better when people just buy me a beer at a conference. Right about now, I could certainly use a beer at least with so little money coming in, I don't think I can keep things up much longer.
I know there's no such thing as bad press, the increase in ftp downloads proves we keep gaining in popularity - but another interview that asks me the same questions I've answered 20 times before can't be that exciting for people, can it? Well those pieces may get OpenBSD out to new readers on the sites they're posted on at least. As far as the existing readers of undeadly, the rest of the site seems pretty dead, we need more action - some good hooks, someone get these editors some journalism experience! I do like those developer blogs though, at least there's some original content.
Leave a comment) mailing lists - the bane of my existence. Having ripped out GCC was a bit of a pain, I'm sure there's a lot of breakage in the tree - but that's not a problem, is it? I blazed through cvs@ to see if there's anything I've overlooked amidst my changes. Pretty much all the architecture specific lists are nothing but spam. The sendmail patches announced on security-announce@, though announced a little late, our sane defaults make this a non issue for the most part, but man am I sick of dealing with sendmail!
conf file I created obviously needs some threshold tuning, so that I won't get woken up when the cpu temperature goes up just because someone commits a new port. Still, it was good to see the sensor framework improvements working properly.
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