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Jings, it’s been a busy week! I was doing crew for the Mummer’s Beauty and the Beast and it was hot back‐stage. It seems there’s no ventilation at all in the Denny Civic Theatre.
Before that, though, I had a go at installing OpenBSD on my old HP Mini 210 netbook. It worked out pretty well, the OS seems quite nice and easy to configure. Some of my custom scripts broke because of incompatibilities between Debian and OpenBSD file layouts, but nothing I couldn’t sort. The biggest problem is simply that Firefox is so incredibly slow. I tried Chrome, just to see if it was better and it was almost as slow. I’m talking about multi‐second delays just typing in a text box here. I don’t think Debian on the same machine was anything like as slow. So perhaps this isn’t the right machine for OpenBSD.
Some useful OpenBSD links:
I think all three of these links make suggestions around changing sysctl.conf in order to improve performance, and frankly I suspect none of those changes make the slightest bit of a difference.
Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check
An interesting talk on computer security and what it really means. Contains a note about phones that feels like it’s lifted right out of the Battlestar Galactica remake.
Heat Death of the Internet
*sigh*