BSD & Gaming

Join Cryptic for their Star Trek Online festivities, the event will run from around 10:00am PST on Thursday, February 2, 2012 through around 10:00am PST on Monday, February 6, 2012.

Celebrations include missions to acquire the new flagships for both the Klingon Empire and the Federation faction, as well as a daily ‘Q’ mission for other prizes!

Download a free to play copy of Star Trek Online today.

Yes you heard right Star Trek Online is now FREE to Play! [LINK]

There are differences between Gold (subscribers) and Silver (Free Accounts), get the details on the F2P Charts. [LINK]

Klingons, Humans, Ferengi, Vulcans, and Bajorans, oh my!

Download the game for Free! [LINK]

NEWS ALERT!  The powers that be in Washington D.C. are doing their best to destroy the last vestiges of Free Speech online under the false pretenses of preventing stolen intellectual property.

Read all the gory details about this farce that is attempting to strip away one more layer of your personal rights – [LINK]

If you already know about SOPA and want to do something to stop this insanity go here [LINK] to contact your Congressmen.

There is also some good stuff covering the topic over at this [LINK] and here [LINK].

Fight for your rights before they are gone FOREVER!!

TIME IS RUNNING OUT !!

FLOSS Weekly had a very good episode taking an in depth look at PC-BSD with a Q&A session involving one of the developers and FreeBSD Girl, Randi Harper.

If you want to hear what PC-BSD is all about and what changes are coming in the new version then go take a look – [LINK] Definitely worth watching!!

Just watched the new episode “Heart of Archness” and it was pure awesome! I was in kind of a crappy mood but this was the light moment I needed, go watch and have a laugh.

Let’s face it no matter who you are, you have your preferences about what operating system you like best, we all do. Some are so fanatically driven that they will go into a frothing rage fit when they find their opinions challenged. I try to see things as a learning experience and hopefully take away some useful information from. I even admit Windows has it’s place in the computing world, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it!

Despite the fact that BSD has been around in one form or another since 1977…. Linux based operating systems have always gotten the limelight in the press. From my observations I think this is mainly due to BSD getting tied up with IP fights in the courts [USL v. BSDi] as well as the fact that  for a long time development was focused on servers not on the desktop. In fact Linus is even quoted as saying in an interview that “If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.” In my mind linux and BSD devotees should consider themselves on the same team rather than at odds.

With all that said, many Linux fans have poo-poo’d BSD for the desktop as long as I can remember, while controversy one way or the other will never truly be put to rest because of emotional zeal, Phoronix has a nice article detailing a default install of PC-BSD 8.2 vs a default install of Ubuntu 11.04 with an eye focused on gaming. The end results were a respectable show of performance by PC-BSD that took the win. To me it’s not proof of who is better…. it’s simply one more statement in a long line of examples over the years,  that there are other choices for your desktop besides Linux based distributions if you don’t want Windows.

Read all about FreeBSD’s results here at this link – [LINK]

August 2011 BSD Magazine is now available! Go to http://www.bsdmag.org and download your free copy.

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With the launch of the final Shuttle flight by Space Shuttle Atlantis, we also get the bad news that at least 7000 people will be looking for new jobs due to D.C.’s lack of support for the agency . How ridiculous is that??

It never made any sense to me that NASA has been underfunded for so many decades. NASA has been the ‘goose that laid the golden egg‘ in terms of technological payoffs that have touched almost every aspect of our lives, and instead of feeding the goose, D.C. bureaucrats have decided to cut the head off…. way to go dumb-asses!

SGU seemed to get a lot of negative reviews from viewers, which were in my opinion really unwarranted. I really hate to see it go, for me  it was an enjoyable series where I cared about the characters and the actors made me believe that on some level they liked what they were doing – far too many series cannot achieve either of those necessary components.

I’ll never understand why the masses seem to prefer crappy tv & movies so much. The amount of absolute garbage these days is staggering, yet a decently engaging show like SGU gets canned…. sigh. Firefly, Jericho, all the good stuff goes and the junk stays… the heroes will fall and the idiots shall inherit the airwaves.

A ‘First Day’ Ceremony will be held at the Kennedy National Space Center Wednesday night May 4th, 2011. The celebration focuses on the new stamp for Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of his flight.

The stamp issued will commemorate Shepard’s suborbital flight on May 5, 1961 and is the first stamp honoring a single astronaut on a stamp all by himself.

Full article and details here – [LINK]