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NYCBSDCon 2005

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

In the mail yesterday; pretty much speaks for itself. :
> (REMINDER: There is no monthly September meeting at the Apple Store this month due to NYCBSDCon.)
>
>Speakers and topics are now set for NYCBSDCon 2005 to be held at Columbia University in Manhattan on September 17th 2005.
>
> The speaker list is impressive. Scheduled speakers and […]

Big News for OpenBSD

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Theo de Raadt publically announced yesterday that the 3.8 release will make possibly the biggest change in the changelog to date: they’re recongfiguring malloc(3):
> This release will bring a lot of new ideas from us. One of them in particular is somewhat risky. I think it is time to talk about that one, […]

OpenNTPD 3.7 Released

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

Just received from Henning Brauer on openbsd-announce:
>OpenNTPD 3.7 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openntpd.org/ shortly. This is our third formal release.
>
> OpenNTPD is a FREE, easy to use implementation of the Network Time Protocol. It provides the ability to sync the local clock to remote NTP servers […]

OpenSSH 4.1 Released

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Latest news from the hackathon: OpenSSH 4.1 has been officially released. Damien (drm@) just sent the email:
> OpenSSH 4.1 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.
> OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server […]

Mixed Networks Admin.: A Little tlp

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

To get back a little more into tech content:
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time with a lot of xterms open: local session, ssh sessions, database connections, you name it. Keeping track of all those windows can get confusing, especially if you aren’t always at the same physical console. Different […]

HOWTO: pf with one interface

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

OpenBSD’s (and now FreeBSD’s) pf(4) is by far the most sophisticated built-in firewall distributed with an current OS. It catches packets early, allows for stateful filtering based on almost any attribute, maintains state cleanly even with NAT, and implements binat and queues, among other things. pf also provides powerful features like macros and […]

BSDCan 2005 Roundups

Monday, May 16th, 2005

[BSDCan 2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) wrapped up yesterday in Ottowa. Looks like it was a good time, and at least two people blogged it. [Dru Lavigne](http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/73) should probably be considered the blogger of record, and has a great rundown on who was there, who wasn’t, and what went on at the panels. She also offers […]

HTT Update

Monday, May 16th, 2005

As he promised, Colin has posted a comprehensive [write-up](http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf) of his presentation on Hyperthreading security exploits. As it turns out, it’s a development on familiar cache exploits. [Greg Lehey](http://www.lemis.com/~grog) (grog) [sums up](http://www.lemis.com/~grog/diary-may2005.html):
>he was utilizing differences in cache access times to decide what another program was doing. That doesn’t sound very dangerous until […]

Hyper-Threading Only Mostly Harmless

Friday, May 13th, 2005

[BSDCan2005](http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) isn’t even in full swing yet–it kicks off in earnest in about 15 minutes–but the big news has already started to roll in: [Colin Percival](http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/colin.percival/) has detected a potentially serious flaw in Intel’s Hyper-Threading, and his public announcement will be one of the first panels.
> Percival, a FreeBSD committer and security […]

[Announce-NY]: Final Perlsemny meeting

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

[Perl Seminar New York](http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perlsemny/) sends the following:
> Our final official meeting for the 2004-05 season will take place on the third Tuesday of May at the usual location:
> Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 6:15-8:15 pm
> NYPC User Group
> 481 8 Avenue (Ramada New Yorker hotel)
> Suite 1560
> between 34th & 35th Sts, Manhattan, right near Penn […]

SSH vulnerability?

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

There has been a lot of discussion in the OpenBSD community (and probably elsewhere, but OpenBSD has a special relationship to OpenSSH) over a paper published by some MIT students regarding a supposed SSH exploit. OpenBSD being the system of choice for the Practical Paranoid (as well at the pratically paranoid and plain old […]

[Announce-NY] NYCBUG: Phillip Moore

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

For those of you who aren’t paying attention, [http://www.nycgbug.org](http://www.nycbug.org) has been updated with the information on next months meeting:
June 01, 2005
[Phillip Moore](http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/view/e_spkr/185): Open Source Software
6 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street
> A presentation will be made on The Evolving Role of Open Source Software in Large Enterprises
> Describing myself has to be the […]

Libretto

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

I’m not sure why this didn’t make a bigger splash when it was announced. Maybe it did, and I just had my head under a rock. Either way, in case you missed it like I did, here’s the news: [Toshiba](http://www.toshiba.com) reintroduced an updated Libretto on April 20th. Actually, they introduced two: the […]

EuroBSDcon

Monday, May 9th, 2005

The 4th Eurpoen BSD Conference, EuroBSDCon 2005 is in Basel, Switzerland November 25th-27th. The [call for papers](http://www.eurobsdcon.org/cfp.php) went out today. Papers are wanted on topics including but not limited to:
* kernel hacking
* embedded application development and deployment
* device drivers
* security and safe coding practices
* system administration: techniques and tools of the trade
* operational […]

Reminder for New Yorkers

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

The [NYCBUG](http://www.nycbug.org) meeting tonight will be the last chance to buy the new NYCBUG T-Shirts at the introductory price. Proceeds go to support the OpenBSD 2005 Hackathon this month in Calgary.
Festivities start at 6:00pm at the SOHO Apple Store, and the fetured speaker is Roland Dowdeswell, who wrote NetBSD’s `cgd` cryptographic disk driver, on […]

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