The Design and Implementation of laffer1

Over the weekend, I connected mDNSResponder in src to the build.  mDNSResponder is apple's implementation of multicast DNS. 

Currently, the mdnsd and dnsextd daemons as well as the command line tool dns-sd are available.  I've also included the libdns_sd library.

FIles are located in src/contrib/mDNSResponder and src/apache/

MidnightBSD 0.3-CURRENT now includes Apple's libdispatch.  With libdispatch, you can create  multithreaded applications with ease.  

The current port does not include blocks support.  We plan to add llvm to the base system in the future.  At that time, we'll setup libdispatch to work with blocks.

We have a new mirror for midnightbsd.  The download page has been updated to reflect the removal of the EMU CS department mirror and the addition of the new mirror.  I also updated most of the metalink files for releases as well.  

Another place to get MidnightBSD :) 

I just posted the first AMD64 snapshot to the FTP server for CURRENT since 0.2.  It does not include mports or packages, but will allow you to install MidnightBSD 0.3 to get up to date hardware support and try out features such as mport tools / libmport, and ZFS.  

This month's BSD Magazine features an article by Lucas and Caryn Holt about MidnightBSD installation.

http://download.bsdmag.org/en/BSD_as_operating_system_BSD_08_2010.pdf 

http://jonripley.com/brainfuck/  and  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

brainfuck(1) has been added to MidnightBSD.  Check it out.  

The devel/llvm and devel/llvm-devel mports have been updated to 2.7 and 2.8.  lang/llvm-gcc4 is now at 2.7 as well.  We've also got a binutils 2.20.1 port now in devel/binutils.   

Friday morning, we had the boot drive in our server fail.  It was an Imation 32GB SSD drive that was purchased on December 27, 2009 and installed in February.  The whole point of a SSD is greater reliability and we've learned that's not the case.  

The drive is still readable (mostly) but writes to the disk are failing.  

About half the services are back up on the server, and this site is one of them. 

Happy Birthday to me!

Last spring I ended up doing several interviews (since I was unemployed at the time) and I know several people doing interviews right now.

What passes for acceptable is amazing. 

One company contacted me for an interview, I replied via email and then poof nothing.  I waited until the next day, sent another email to verify they received my last one.  Well, I guess the recruiter decided to read my resume and not interview but didn't plan on telling me.  The way I looked at it all the fail was on http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/?L=en. 

I waited in rooms for 20 or 30 minutes.  I answered stupid questions, and suffered through awkward office tours ("See the office you'll never work in, etc...").

When the job market becomes a candidate's market again, some companies will be in for a shock.

Mommy and Daddy bought me something extra special.  I don't want to say what it is until everything is in place.

New territory.

Mommy and Daddy bought me something extra special.  I don't want to say what it is until everything is in place.

New territory.

zlib has been updated to 1.2.4 in current.  Please report any problems experienced with the new version (if any) 

I created a skipfish port today.  It's a web app security scanner written in C.