BSD & Gaming

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 !!

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

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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.

The April Issue Articles Include:

• Interview with Dru Lavigne

• Why You Use FreeBSD Just May Start With A ‘Z’

• OpenBSD improves upon /etc/rc.d/

• DragonFly News

• Package Management for the upcoming PC-BSD 9

• Converting a Physical Partition with FreeBSD to a vmware Image

• Build appliances with QEMU and OpenBSD

• Drupal on FreeBSD part 5

• Mutt On OS X part 2

• Realtime Weather Data EMWIN on FreeBSD

• Benchmarking Different Kind of Storage

• Content Management Made Easy The Open Source Way!

Get it fresh off the press by going to BSDMag.Org for your free copy now.

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I’ve been dying for some decent programming lately. Remembering that SGU should be coming up sometime soon I researched it only to find out what many of you probably already know… it’s been canceled with the final ten episodes to be aired starting March 7. Great…just great! Firefly, Jericho, and anything of even the smallest amount of quality goes down the tubes and yet the bilge I wouldn’t force on my worst enemy is on year after year, what the hell is wrong with network executives?!?

There has been very little worth watching on television in the last handful of years. Most of what is broadcast is craptastic in the extreme. Take for example the vast majority of these so called reality shows.. complete.. utter.. shite. While I’m complaining about tv if I see one more dam law enforcement/cop/court room related show or one more doctor/hospital/nurse themed show…. well I don’t know what I’ll do but it’ll be bad… very bad….. probably involve lots and lots of swearing…

For another thing, even though it’s old news I still need to get it out of my system…. you went from ‘SCIFI‘ to ‘SYFY‘ really ?!?!? Really?!? Someone there thought that was a good idea?!? Are you stupid?!? Hmmm first SYFY then canceling SGU… yea lot of winner ideas going on over there lately…. lotsa luck.

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FreeBSD News is taking a poll asking people what sort of installer do you like to use now that there are more options available in the BSD community.

To get a better idea of what BSD users like the poll offers four general options of  ….only a text based installation, only a graphics based installer, an option to choose either, or it doesn’t matter either way.

Make your voice heard and go vote here! – [LINK]

Articles Include:

• ZFS and FreeBSD
• Network transparent rate limitation with ipfw
• Building an iSCSI storage with BSD
• How to setup a USB Memory stick for installing a pfSense SoHo Firewall/Router
• Mutt On OS X
• The Missing Links to Strategic Implementation
• Browser Wars
• Interview with Dan Langille
• PC-SYSINSTALL – A new system installer backend for PC-BSD & FreeBSD

Get it fresh off the press by going to BSDMagazine.Org for your free copy now.

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It’s unbelievably sad that the upcoming launch of the Shuttle “Discovery” will be the final flight for that vehicle. There may be a few more flights by other Shuttles, but the fleet is definitely getting ready to retire soon.

What is amazing is how long and how well the shuttle fleet has performed despite problems and the Challenger disaster. The shuttles were not originally planned to be used so much for as long as they have been, they were originally slated to be mothballed and replaced by newer technology years ago.

It’s sad to me that the fleet will be retired, I remember when the first launches took place and it was a huge moment in history. It’s pathetic that the government has left NASA unsupported for so long that we now have nothing to take it’s place as was originally planned for. It’s also a sad statement about the average citizen being so apathetic that we did not demand the necessary financial support for the Space Progam.

In a New York Times article Amazon.com says it was selling 143 eBooks for every 100 paper copies and now sales are on the increase hitting 180 per 100. I can understand why sales are up from my own perspective. I love to read …and I love books! However years of lugging around tons of books every time I move has been a nightmare, being able to have all those hundreds of pounds of books on a few data disks…. it’s just too convenient.

It’s not an easy choice when you sentimentalize hard-copy books the way some of us do. Some books in my collection were gifts from people and those are especially hard to consider getting rid of. Every book holds a memory for me, not just the work itself…  where I was, what I was doing and experiencing at the time when I read it. That experience doesn’t hold for me with the digital editions. Getting rid of my hard-copy versions is something I’ve been contemplating for some time now but not a choice I’ve been able to make yet.

NYT’s story is here – [LINK]

Get your July issue now! It’s becoming a free monthly magazine and you can download your copy in PDF format directly from their web site.

Get the July issue here – [LINK]

Back issues are available as well – [LINK]