http://blogs.freebsdish.org/anderson Just another FreeBSD Committers Blogs weblog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:05:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The game is simple: Grab the nearest book.Open it to page 56.Find the fifth sentence.Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.Results for me: “When a high vacuum had been reached, first ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/anderson/2008/12/01/page-56/ I just finished watching the movie ‘Sicko’. Makes me sad to see the United States in is such a poor position health care wise. Why does Cuba have a better health care system than USA? That makes no sense, and it pisses me off. Why are ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/anderson/2008/08/24/sicko/ The startup I work for is looking for a few good software people.  Both locations are in Austin, TX (USA).Here's our wish-list of experience for the positions:EmbeddedA BSCS degree and 5+ years of experience writing C languageExperience with x86 and MIPS assembly languageExperience with low level drivers for networking devices ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/anderson/2008/03/17/now-hiring/ I've been considering porting PUFFS (NetBSD's kernel implementation of FUSE) along with reFUSE (the library that goes along with PUFFS) to FreeBSD.  I wonder what the interest is in this? http://blogs.freebsdish.org/anderson/2007/11/27/puffs-for-freebsd/ After being a heavy user of Robert Watson's FreeBSD cross reference site (here) which indexes many different OS kernels, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Darwin, OpenSolaris, and more. It's quite impressive, however, I often found the need to see the entire OS, and I'm mostly interested in the BSD's. ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/anderson/2007/10/19/freebsd-cross-reference-online/ What's next? We all know about devfs and similar file systems, and many of us use unionfs or nullfs. However - what other utility file systems would be useful, that we haven't built yet? I think tools like FUSE have given a lot of people some very ... http://blogs.freebsdish.org/anderson/2007/10/14/utility-file-systems/