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Revenge of the Swift | CR 204

chris — Mon, 09 May 2016 14:54:27 +0000

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In a podcast far far away, you asked for it & this week we delivered. It’s code review time, with a twist!

Plus the FUD seems strong with the second Oracle v Google trial, we attempting to do some busting, Dropbox falling back to reality & 30 years later why we still love QBasic.

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Second Oracle V Google Trial FUD

Calling / using apis is the not the issue
Re-implementing them is.
Google Employees were found to have literally copy / pasted Sun / Oracle source and even failed to remove the copyright headers
No material impact on the average dev with the possible exception of Google moving to OpenJDK

Cost cutting at Dropbox and Silicon Valley startup

The change at Dropbox, last valued at $10 billion, shows even the most richly valued and highly funded startups are no longer immune to the changing tides of Silicon Valley.

A weaker VC funding environment and freezing tech-IPO market have forced startups of all sizes to take cost-cutting measures and focus more on profits – signifying a shift in the free-spending, growth-at-all-cost culture that had seeped through Silicon Valley over the past few years.

As startups cut back on perks and delay their IPO, employees could grow frustrated and decide to join larger, more established companies that offer better benefits and stock liquidity.

Swift School

CR204 Code Sample
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Swift and nil safety
Comparison to Objective-C nil system
Comparison to other languages

Mike’s First Swift .app

Swift as a language
Swift with AppKit
Swift vs ObjC

30 years later, QBasic is still the best

Yes, QBasic is a terrible procedural language. It introduces one to concepts widely considered harmful, uses awkward syntax for implicit declarations, is not case sensitive, is non-zero-based, etc. the list goes on… When developing a skill, it is much better to acquire the right reflexes from the start rather than have to correct years of bad practice. Following this advice, I should have probably started off with the basics of the ruby language which I love. Yet, while most of those QBasic concepts are today generally considered as red flags by our peers, they each served a very specific purpose at the time: to keep the language simple and accessible, a notion that every other language has left behind in favor of flexibility, complexity and logic.

I installed QBasic on my son’s 11″ HP Stream today, having to hack a DOSBox manual installation. He double clicked the icon on his desktop and in a split second, we were in the IDE, greeted with the introduction screen which brought back so many memories to my mind

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Liberating SSL | BSD Now 48

chris — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:38:19 +0000

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Coming up in this week’s episode, we’ll be talking with one of OpenBSD’s newest developers – Brent Cook – about the portable version of LibreSSL and how it’s developed. We’ve also got some important information about the FreeBSD port of LibreSSL. The latest news and your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD quarterly status report

FreeBSD has gotten quite a lot done this quarter
Changes in the way release branches are supported – major releases will get at least five years over their lifespan
A new automounter is in the works, hoping to replace amd (which has some issues)
The CAM target layer and RPC stack have gotten some major optimization and speed boosts
Work on ZFSGuru continues, with a large status report specifically for that
The report also mentioned some new committers, both source and ports
It also covers GNATS being replaced with Bugzilla, the new core team, 9.3-RELEASE, GSoC updates, UEFI booting and lots of other things that we’ve already mentioned on the show
“Foundation-sponsored work resulted in 226 commits to FreeBSD over the April to June period”

A new OpenBSD HTTPD is born

Work has begun on a new HTTP daemon in the OpenBSD base system
A lot of people are asking “why?” since OpenBSD includes a chrooted nginx already – will it be removed? Will they co-exist?
Initial responses seem to indicate that nginx is getting bloated, and is a bit overkill for just serving content (this isn’t trying to be a full-featured replacement)
It’s partially based on the relayd codebase and also comes from the author of relayd, Reyk Floeter
This has the added benefit of the usual, easy-to-understand syntax and privilege separation
There’s a very brief man page online already
It supports vhosts and can serve static files, but is still in very active development – there will probably be even more new features by the time this airs
Will it be named OpenHTTPD? Or perhaps… LibreHTTPD? (I hope not)

pkgng 1.3 announced

The newest version of FreeBSD’s second generation package management system has been released, with lots of new features
It has a new “real” solver to automatically handle conflicts, and dynamically discover new ones (this means the annoying -o option is deprecated now, hooray!)
Lots of the code has been sandboxed for extra security
You’ll probably notice some new changes to the UI too, making things more user friendly
A few days later 1.3.1 was released to fix a few small bugs, then 1.3.2 shortly thereafter and 1.3.3 yesterday

FreeBSD after-install security tasks

A number of people have written in to ask us “how do I secure my BSD box after I install it?”
With this blog post, hopefully most of their questions will finally be answered in detail
It goes through locking down SSH with keys, patching the base system for security, installing packages and keeping them updated, monitoring and closing any listening services and a few other small things
Not only does it just list things to do, but the post also does a good job of explaining why you should do them
Maybe we’ll see some more posts in this series in the future

Interview – Brent Cook – bcook@openbsd.org / @busterbcook

LibreSSL’s portable version and development

News Roundup

FreeBSD Mastery – Storage Essentials

MWL‘s new book about the FreeBSD storage subsystems now has an early draft available
Early buyers can get access to an in-progress draft of the book before the official release, but keep in mind that it may go through a lot of changes
Topics of the book will include GEOM, UFS, ZFS, the disk utilities, partition schemes, disk encryption and maximizing I/O performance
You’ll get access to the completed (e)book when it’s done if you buy the early draft
The suggested price is $8

Why BSD and not Linux?

Yet another thread comes up asking why you should choose BSD over Linux or vice-versa
Lots of good responses from users of the various BSDs
Directly ripping a quote: “Features like Ports, Capsicum, CARP, ZFS and DTrace were stable on BSDs before their Linux versions, and some of those are far more usable on BSD. Features like pf are still BSD-only. FreeBSD has GELI and ipfw and is “GCC free”. DragonflyBSD has HAMMER and kernel performance tuning. OpenBSD have upstream pf and their gamut of security features, as well as a general emphasis on simplicity.”
And “Over the years, the BSDs have clearly shown their worth in the nix ecosystem by pioneering new features and driving adoption of others. The most recent on OpenBSD were 2038 support and LibreSSL. FreeBSD still arguably rules the FOSS storage space with ZFS.”
Some other users share their switching experiences – worth a read

More g2k14 hackathon reports

Following up from last week’s huge list of hackathon reports, we have a few more
Landry Breuil spent some time with Ansible testing his infrastructure, worked on the firefox port and tried to push some of their patches upstream
Andrew Fresh enjoyed his first hackathon, pushing OpenBSD’s perl patches upstream and got tricked into rewriting the adduser utility in perl
Ted Unangst did his usual “teduing” (removing of) old code – say goodbye to asa, fpr, mkstr, xstr, oldrdist, fsplit, uyap and bluetooth
Luckily we didn’t have to cover 20 new ones this time!

BSDTalk episode 243

The newest episode of BSDTalk is out, featuring an interview with Ingo Schwarze of the OpenBSD team
The main topic of discussion is mandoc, which some users might not be familiar with
mandoc is a utility for formatting manpages that OpenBSD and NetBSD use (DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD include it in their source tree, but it’s not built by default)
You may also want to watch Ingo’s BSDCan talk about mandoc
We’ll catch up to you soon, Will…

Feedback/Questions

Thomas writes in
Stephen writes in
Sha’ul writes in
Florian writes in
Bob Beck writes in – and note the “Caution” section that was added to libressl.org

All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
Just can’t get enough LibreSSL? Brent also did a text-only interview for Undeadly, which we also have a link to there
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
Want to come on for an interview or have a tutorial you’d like to see? Let us know
If you’re a big PCBSD fan, or have been curious about what it has to offer over regular FreeBSD, you’ll like next week’s episode
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Steam Streaming Showcased | LAS s30e07

chris — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:38:21 +0000

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In-Home Streaming hit beta this week and it’s a breakthrough technology that changes the game for desktop Linux forever. Not just limited to games, Steam’s In-Home streaming can deliver entire applications. We’ll demo the power and possibilities of this new tech.

Plus: The new big feature in the Linux kernel everyones talking about, a roundup of upcoming Linux community events…

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Requirements

A machine powerful enough on the “server” side to play the game, and encode it.
A machine on the client side powerful enough to decode whatever the resolution of video is it will be receiving (resolution is set to the servers screen size).
About 3MB/s sustained transfer. That might be trickier than you think over Wifi.

Game Streaming

Games installed on Windows box show up in my Library
Game install status is displayed on the Linux steam client while the Windows box is installing.
I was able to stream Dust from Linux to my Windows box.
When the game you are streaming is running for the first time on the host Windows box, and the DirectX reds is getting installed, Steam will inform you that the remote system is running first time setups on the remote box.
UAC will break this process at this time.
Steam In-Home Streaming Beta Demonstration

Non-Steam Application Streaming

Valve open up in-home streaming beta to non-Steam games

In this latest instance, they’ve updated the Steam client beta’s in-home streaming functionality to support “streaming non-Steam games in the Steam library”. That means, whether they’re part of Steam or not, you’ll be able to beam your most powerful games between local area network PCs. Even Minesweeper.

You might lose title bars.
If you’re tricky enough you can get to the full Windows desktop.
Everything is full screen. Loading boxes, new windows, etc.

Notes

All Windows stream as full screen, so loading boxes are full screen while the app loads.
Works from Big Picture Mode
My Life is now complete – I can now change my main pc to my laptop (arch) and stream my games to either the laptop or shield from the desktop

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The SteamOS non-UEFI / legacy BIOS support is derived from the community’s “Ye Olde SteamOSe” distribution fork. With this SteamOS Beta update, dual-boot and custom partitioning are also possible via the SteamOS installer’s “expert install” mode.

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Arch Made Easy | LAS | s19e03

chris — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:39:32 +0000

Is the Chakra Project a beautifully simple ready to go Arch Linux desktop, or off the tracks onto an island of it’s own? We find out, plus what sets pacman apart from FreeBSD’s Ports system!

Also – Chris blasts Google for leaving Nexus One owns behind, Jolicloud ditches the Netbook, and we celebrate a new geek holiday!

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Arch “Based”
Rolling Release
Uses it’s own Bundles system for apps
Built their own Installer, not bad… Drive managment feels a bit awkward.
Built there own tools, like Chakra GTK Config, Cinstall, and LiveScripts2 The Chakra Project – Tools
The Chakra Project
Official LAS VirtualBox Image of Chakra
VM Username: linuxactionshow
VM Password: jblive

Pacman vs Ports

Pacman is the binary package tool for Arch Linux. The FreeBSD equivalent is pkg_add
the Arch Build System (ABS) is designed to mimic some of the capabilities of FreeBSD’s ports system
Both Ports and ABS consist of a number of directories named after various packages sorted into categories (ie ABS: extra/daemons/apache Ports: www/apache22). These directories do not contain the files or source code for firefox, but rather just a few script files that provide the infrastructure to allow you to build firefox.
Both Ports and ABS automate the process of building software, including the following steps:
Download source code from mirrors
Checksum the file (for security and integrity)
Extract the files
Apply any required patches (FreeBSD changes the default paths for a lot of apps to follow the FreeBSD directory structure)
Run the configure script (FreeBSD provides a text based menu for selecting options)
Compile the application
BSD ONLY: Install the application
BSD ONLY: checksum all the files that were installed
BSD ONLY: Uninstall the application (remove any unmodified files using checksums from earlier)
Create a package that can be installed (with pacman or pkg_add respectively)
ABS is only a build system used to build packages, that are then installed and managed by pacman
Ports is integrated with pkg_add and the package registry, and allows you to install the build application without the additional step of building a package.

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Streaming Soapbox | J@N | 2.22.11

chris — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:20:30 +0000

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This morning, the online streaming market exploded as Amazon landed a nut-punch to Netflix by announcing their own streaming service. FREE for Amazon Prime members. Netflix quickly responded with an announcement of their own, revealing a partnership with CBS.

Tonight, we’re taking a closer look at each of these announcements, and seeing how they really stack up against one another. Is Amazon priming up to knock Netflix from the top dog position as King of Streaming? Or can Netflix withstand the punishment?

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Amazon.com launches free media streaming for Prime members

More than 5,000 movies & TV shows will become available
More than 65 million visitors log on to the company’s site each month
Amazon Prime also offers free 2-day shipping on most products
Some doubt the future of content availability, but others are optimistic since Amazon has had a long-term relationship with many studios as a DVD distributor.

CBS and Netflix announce 2-year licensing partnership for entire library

A few titles included: Frasier, Cheers, Medium, Flashpoint, Family Ties, Hawaii 5-0, Twin Peaks.
And of course, STAR TREK. All of it?
This service will launch in early April.
- Reactive, premature announcement due to Amazon’s release? YES.

Cost and Tech Comparisons:

Amazon Prime requires annual contracts, paid in 12-month lump sum.
Netflix can be cancelled at any time, but costs slightly more per month.
Amazon can stream to Android devices, Netflix cannot.
Amazon already owns the infrastructure to deliver this tech, Netflix has to rent it (sometimes from Amazon!)
Amazon is launching with “more than 5000 titles” while Netflix had more than 12,000 titles as of TWO YEARS AGO.

Judge Orders Shutdown of TV Streaming Service
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(Note: Students can get Amazon Prime for FREE, but it does not include video streaming)

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https://www.hackingnetflix.com/ — for ‘insider’ news from an independent source
https://instantwatcher.com/ — an easier-to-use interface for browsing Netflix’s online catalog

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Best Podcasting Microphone – Revisited!

chris — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:27:39 +0000

Over the years I’ve written several microphone reviews in my ongoing search for the one microphone that combines quality of sound, great features, and does not require very expensive equipment to operate. Those requirements make USB microphones very attractive, they plug right into the computer and show up as a digital sound device, they are powered from the USB bus of the computer.

In the last Microphone review I did in early 2009, the microphone I heard to most feedback on was the Blue Snowball, and rightly so. The Blue Snowball is a classy looking microphone with some great features. USB means you can simply plug it in and start podcasting right away (with some issues under Linux).

With the many advantages to USB and the obvious popularity, I set off to research and try out the absolute best USB podcasting Microphone. If you’d like to see my take on a few fantastic non-USB mics, check out my review on those.

I’ll be comparing what might just be two of the best selling USB Microphones, Blue’s Snowball and the Rode Podcaster.

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The Blue Snowball:

Starting with the Blue Snowball, it has a few features I love, with it’s exaggerated 1920’s classic look. Some of the great features include:

Three operational modes, standard audio level, -10db pad, and a room mode. The room mode is great for using a single mic for a couple people… Though I find the quality takes a noticeable hit (see video for more). Over all I tend to really only find my self using the first main mode, unless I’ve setup a co-host with the Snowball, and he or she needs a little help keeping those levels in check.
The Blue Snowball is probably one of the most prolific mics on the market, so support is wide spread. This has not led to very solid Linux support, but it is usable out of the box on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Overall I find the Blue Snowball to have a very true sound, if not a bit t00 thin that can’t really be fully restored in post without a lot of extra work. I find the stand the Blue Snowball comes with nearly useless, it’s too short and built cheap, however the hole the stand mounts into is a standard mic pole socket, so you can easily mount the Snowball to any standard mic mount.

The new contestant for my label of “best podcasting microphone” is the Rode Podcaster. It has a more serious look and design, I can tell that Rode was aiming for a pro look and feel, and I think they nailed it. It’s a hefty microphone, nearly 2lbs in weight, with a metal body and it has a really good solid feeling in your hand – though that extra heft can be felt in your laptop bag if you’re traveling and want to record on location.

The Rode Podcaster:

The Rode Podcaster has a few really great features that I feel put this microphone in a category of its own for the consumer market, such as:

The number one feature is the built in microphone jack. This means you can monitor your audio live, without the delay from USB. Something not possible with nearly all USB microphones and is such a critical way to avoid regretting a horrible recording session that could have been avoided with simply monitoring what was going into your recorder. The headphone jack being built into the mic means no delay, which is critical so your not finding your self getting tripped up by hearing your self on a strange delay. It does odd things to the brain.
Not content with just acting as headphone jack to monitor your self, the headphone jack also shows up as a USB audio output device on your computer. This means when your doing a Skype call, you can set Skype to send audio to that jack, so you don’t end up picking up the bleed from your desktop speakers on your mic. Direct monitoring and Audio out ability can really improve the quality of your recordings.
Overall I think the Rode has a great sound, it can be a bit quiet, so be sure you have your levels set right. But it’s always safe to error on the side of quite audio, you can boost that.. You can’t fix your recording if you clip out the entire time and blast the recorder with too much level.
Last but far from least, the Rode Podcaster is a top fire-end mic, with a very narrow pickup range. What the heck does that mean? It means you talk into the top of it, not the side of it quite simply. The advantage is it’s not awkward to use if you put it on a mic stand or boom. As for the narrow pickup range (this is better demonstrated in the video) stuff that is not directly in front of the mic, is hardly picked up. This is key if you are recording in a noisy room with PC fans, other background sounds, or have other hosts around you. One of the often missed causes of a bad sounding recording is when your hosts are picked up by the other hosts mics. Because they are not directly in front of the mic next to them that is picking them up, their voice has a poor sound quality, it gets mixed into the overall recording, and BOOM, you have some element in your recording killing your quality that is kind of hard to track down and figure out.

The Rode Podcaster does not come with a stand, so you’ll need something to mount it on. You can go with something simple and cheap, like a desk stand that sits right on your desk or a mic boom that clamps to your desk and lets you adjust the mic around to better fit how you are sitting. The desk stand also tends to transfer any noise on your desk into the mic, the mic boom can do this as well, but when you combine the boom stand with a shock mount, you can almost totally eliminate this issue.

To really get setup right, I’d recommend a boom and shock mount. I contacted the folks over at The DVeStore.com (whom I got my Rode Podcaster from) and told them I was doing this review. They put together a full Rode Podcaster bundle that includes the Mic, boom stand, and shock mount for a great price. I don’t make anything off their sales (unlike the Amazon links above), I just know them and been happy with the service.

The One:

Over all I am giving the crown for the “Best Podcasting Microphone” to the Rode Podcaster, it’s built in headphone monitor, support for Windows, Linux, and Windows (Linux & Vista/Win7 after a firmware update) really make this a fantastic mic. When you factor in it’s high-end sound quality, exceptional build quality, and Rode’s reputation for making great mics – it’s a clear winner!

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Swift School

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Steam Streaming Showcased | LAS s30e07

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