Internet is for Porn!
Posted by
Norbert on Fri Dec 30 21:11 PHT 2005
From the "misc. - why you think the net was born?" section
Yesterday, I was at the
Tricom Systems
office when Keech showed me a video of World of Warcraft's version
of "The Internet Is For Porn". The song is from the puppet musical group,
Avenue Q. Here's the link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645
By the way, here's an
ogg vorbis file
of the song. Enjoy!
NetBSD 3.0 released!
Posted by
Norbert on Sat Dec 24 15:23 PHT 2005
From the "of course, it runs netbsd!" section
3.0 has been released! This is the 11th major release of NetBSD. This
release includes many new features and enhancements, like the inclusion
of the
OpenBSD
pf in the base system.
For more information, see the
release announcement.
A New Job
Posted by
Norbert on Tue Dec 20 23:02 PHT 2005
From the "misc. blah blah" section
Starting January 2, 2006, I'll be working at
Tricom Systems, Inc.
as a systems administrator. A new job and a new challenge!
However, I'll still be maintaining
FEU-NRMF servers on my free time.
PhilBSD Gathering
Posted by
Norbert on Thu Dec 15 23:57 PHT 2005
From the "events to attend" section
The Philippine BSD Group will have a gathering this coming Friday,
December 16, 2005 at Starbucks, Pacific Star, Makati Ave, corner
Buendia, Makati City
See you there!
rthreads in OpenBSD
Posted by
Norbert on Sun Dec 4 05:02 PHT 2005
From the "they called it bsd, and open because its always free!" section
Ted Unangst recently commited the rthreads code in the OpenBSD-current
tree as a replacement for the current userland thread library,
libpthread. Here's the email of Ted to tech@:
i just committed the current rthreads code. this is a replacement for the
current userland thread library, libpthread. the kernel is made thread
aware and some syscalls are added to facilitate the userland library.
most of the kernel code is currently only enabled if you add RTHREADS to
the config file. it will probably remain this while for some time.
the userland library implements a subset of the pthreads API. it is
binary compatible, so it is possible to switch to it on the fly.
currently, only i386 and amd64 are supported. to add support for a new
arch, copy _atomic_lock from libpthread and write rfork_thread.
the new syscalls need to be stubbed into libc, there is a diff at the
end of this email.
there is still a lot of work to do. signals are hard. there are
functions missing from the library. but some quirks aside, i have
been using this code since may without incident.
quite a few more details about how everything fits together can be found
in the paper linked from events.html.
Index: Makefile.inc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.75
diff -u -r1.75 Makefile.inc
--- Makefile.inc 2005/11/29 21:29:15 1.75
+++ Makefile.inc 2005/12/03 18:26:10
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@
sigaltstack.o socket.o socketpair.o stat.o statfs.o swapctl.o \
symlink.o sync.o sysarch.o umask.o unlink.o unmount.o \
utimes.o vadvise.o wait4.o write.o writev.o xfspioctl.o __semctl.o \
- __syscall.o __sysctl.o
+ __syscall.o __sysctl.o sched_yield.o getthrid.o thrsleep.o thrwakeup.o \
+ threxit.o thrsigdivert.o
GASM= ${ASM:.o=.go}
PASM= ${ASM:.o=.po}
At last, a step towards kernel threads in OpenBSD.
