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Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, announced at All Things Open, that Microsoft is adding “experimental support” for Google’s open-source Go language, into its Azure cloud service.

Another $1 Million Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses

Remember the Robotic Dragonfly? The little drone was an early crowdfunding success story, netting over a $1 million in pledges on Indiegogo in 2012. At the time, it was one of the first crowdfunded gadgets to raise more than a million dollars. The project promised a tiny robot that can fly like a bird and hover like an insect — and for $99, too. Bad news, friends. This little drone is not taking off as scheduled.

The company announced yesterday that it is in deep financial trouble. But it’s not their fault, the founders say in notes on Indiegogo. It’s PayPal and Indiegogo’s fault for not releasing funds. How much? The company didn’t release that information.

The direction of computing is only going in one way—to the cloud

The direction of computing is going in just one way—towards the cloud. As companies and individuals learn what it can do, many new ways of working are opening up. For example, if you’re selling a service or providing an app via the cloud, all your users are permanently or very frequently connected. You can watch how they use your product, and feed that information straight back into your development cycle to alleviate points of pain or optimise and expand popular areas. That simply wasn’t possible before. You can analyse and act on real-time data to add far more intelligence to your product than your users’ devices can support, as Siri and Google Now already show. The constraints of pre-cloud computing are fading away, and the age of true utility is here.

Ionic Dev Diaries

Mike’s in the last phase of development for releasing an Ionic / Cordova app under BT.
Why Ionic?
The road so far.
Platform specific concerns?

Feedback

Experience, money, or fun???

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A Brief Intorduction | BSD Now 8

chris — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:48:00 +0000

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We chat with Antti Kantee from the NetBSD project about a crazy little thing called rump kernels. We\’ll also be showing you all the different cool things you can do with BSD and the Tor network, as well as discussing all the latest news. So sit back and enjoy BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

FreeBSD July-September 2013 Status Report

Quarterly FreeBSD status report is out with A LOT of updates, we\’ll cover a few of them
Highlights include AES-NI Improvements for GELI, Capsicum development, Continuation of the Newcons Project, Download Manager Service for the Ports Collection, status updates from all the various FreeBSD teams, FreeBSD on EC2 news, updates to the CSPRNG, much more
We\’ve covered some of these things already, but there\’s lots to read in the announcement
See full page for details on everything

Dragonfly SMP contention update

Lots of work going in to reducing SMP contention in the next Dragonfly release
Anything which forks and/or execs a lot will now run as close to optimally as it is possible to run on a multi-core box
The lead developer was using poudriere and noticed the performance difference, says this is \”a fairly major milestone for the project\”
Lots of technical details in the mailing list post, check it out

FreeBSD gets \”first boot\” rc.d scripts

Colin Percival added support for scripts that run on the first boot
Might be desirable for embedded systems to automatically download and apply patches
Similarly, it can be used to invoke freebsd-update to patch your system on the first bootup
Could also be used to download and run a script or install ports or packages
Already MFCed to 10-STABLE and 9-STABLE and added to ports
Lots of possibilities

NetBSD gets lua scripting in the kernel

NetBSD gained support for the Lua scripting language in the kernel
A luactl command was added to easily manipulate it
It will be interesting to see what can come out of this
Speaking of NetBSD kernels, that leads us into our interview!

— Interview –

Interview – Antti Kantee – pooka@netbsd.org / @anttikantee

The anykernel and rump kernels
rump kernels in userspace, rump kernels + applications on Xen, fs-utils, rump kernel compiled to javascript

Tutorial

Running a Tor relay, bridge, exit or hidden service

The BSDs, with their great network performance and security, make great Tor nodes
This tutorial shows the different cool things you can do with Tor
Help out the network by donating some bandwidth
We need more BSD nodes. Our random number generator isn\’t backdoored like Linux\’s

News Roundup

Second PCBSD feature digest it out

Weekly PCBSD digest is out to tell you about new features
Mentions switching over all bug reports to trac.pcbsd.org
Life Preserver has finished development and is now being tested
PCBSD 10.0 ISOs coming soon

OpenBSD imports VXLAN interface

VXLAN is a virtual extensible local area network tunnel interface
UDP-based tunneling protocol for overlaying virtualized layer 2 networks over layer 3 networks

OpenZFS Office Hours

The question and answer session with Matt has been uploaded
Covers lots of topics ranging from cross-compatibility to performance improvements and trivia

BSDMag\’s October issue is out

Free monthly BSD magazine releases another issue
Topics include FreeBSD moving to SVN, a BSD programming intro, new PCBSD utilities, migrating from Linux to BSD and OpenBSD LTS updates (which we already covered!)

Feedback/Questions

Ben writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s20MUQmfuD
- PCBSD pkg config: https://github.com/pcbsd/pcbsd/blob/master/build-files/conf/port-make.conf
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Toby writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2GfQkSSDz
Noah writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2IFpjbWVr

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Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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Initiate Transition Sequence | STOked 115

chris — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:00:33 +0000

In a change of gears from the featured episode series, Chris takes a look at the new Odyssey class ship, and what review would be complete with out taking it out for a few PVP matches! Join the crew as they put the new ships through their paces, and then give you their thoughts!

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