http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/ 2026-04-15T18:21:53+00:00 http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/ http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2013-06-08T11:00:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/4bsd_dmesg?rev=1370689215&do=diff jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0090000. GDB: no debug ports present KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb Copyright (c) 1992-2011 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #12: Wed Dec 14 15:29:33 EST 2011 root@aals174.au.alcatel-lucent.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC sparc64 WA… text/html 2007-08-06T03:51:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/16may1999?rev=1186372264&do=diff BUGS Meeting 16 May 1999 This was the first 'official' meeting for the Sydney region of BUGS. Here are most of our members (minus 3) that attended the first official BUGS meeting in Sydney. We had a fulfilling lunch at the Kwangtung Palace in Hornsby followed by an informal chat about the who, what, why and where of the organisation. text/html 2010-08-04T15:12:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/andysbbq2010?rev=1280934774&do=diff Andys' BBQ August 2010 What BBQ for BUGSters. There'd be meat, a case of beer, wifi internet access (via ADSL2), and whatever else anyone can bring along. Where Andys' place, in the southern Sydney suburb of Miranda in the Sutherland Shire: known affectionately as The Shire text/html 2011-08-20T21:28:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/andysmeet2011?rev=1313875699&do=diff Andys' Meet August 2011 What Meet-up for BUGSters. There'll be pizza, a case of beer, wifi internet access (via ADSL2), and whatever else anyone can bring along. Where Andys' place, in the southern Sydney suburb of Miranda in the Sutherland Shire: known affectionately as The Shire text/html 2010-04-18T22:58:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/bbq2010?rev=1271631501&do=diff BBQ 2010 Q1 Where GrOOgle's place, on the shores of the beautiful Dereel lagoon in the Victorian Goldfields (<http://tinyurl.com/bugsmap>). Sombrero, flyspray and sandals required. Something interesting to eat requested, including vegetarian. Limited overnight accommodation available. text/html 2025-09-30T00:57:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/bugs?rev=1759193857&do=diff [BSD Users Group, Sydney.] Welcome to the BSD Users Group, Sydney. BUGS is a group of users of BSD based operating systems, founded in Sydney, Australia on 16 May, 1999. We communicate via IRC, and occasionally on our mailing list. We meet sometimes. Activities include support, advocacy, and sharing of resources and information, but a major objective is to enjoy each other's company and have a good time without actually wasting time. text/html 2019-03-28T20:12:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/channeltopics?rev=1553803956&do=diff A lot of time and effort goes in to choosing an IRC channel topic that suits the group. Here are some examples of fine work from the past. Future candidates for this page can be found here. * #BUGS: BSD Unix and other tech talk. * #BUGS: BSD User Group Singleton text/html 2010-07-22T21:33:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/do_a_deer?rev=1279834398&do=diff Do, a deer On #bugs, unixhag suggested a #bugs song based on the Do[e], a deer solfège song from Sound of Music. This is a work in progress. Suggestions for each line are shown below with the preferred line emboldened and promoted to the top. Do text/html 2022-10-06T08:03:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/dummypageformonitoring?rev=1665043422&do=diff This page is used for blackbox monitoring of the BUGS website. Nothing to see here. bugs#monitoring text/html 2007-08-06T03:42:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/how_it_all_started?rev=1186371731&do=diff How it all started In April 1999, Jonathan Michaels, Carl Stern and Peter and Michaela Fackrell met to plan forming a FreeBSD user group in Sydney, and Sue Blake attended by telephone. We set up a mailing list and started advertising on the relevant FreeBSD mailing lists. As soon as discussion started within the group we realised that we wanted to include all BSD operating systems. When strict rules were imposed many people withdrew from the group, returning to a new structure without rules an… text/html 2020-09-12T00:25:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/infrastructure?rev=1599870344&do=diff BUGS Administration As a general principal, BUGS infrastructure should not be reliant on a single person. The website will be a Wiki that will allow all members to edit it. Previous hosts * Sue Blake - web and email hosting with welearn.com.au text/html 2022-01-18T04:43:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/infrastructureau?rev=1642480999&do=diff Australian FreeBSD mirrors There are three different kind of mirrors: WWW, FTP and Git mirrors. The following reflects the status as of January 2022. WWW mirrors The last of the Australian WWW mirrors was decommissioned on 2016-06-30. FTP mirrors text/html 2010-07-11T02:15:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/internet_operationing_instructions?rev=1278814531&do=diff text/html 2022-11-12T07:57:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/irc_help?rev=1668239845&do=diff What is IRC? IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It's a text-based chat service which predates all those ad-infested, bloated, virus-ridden commercial offerings like Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, etc. Just as there is no single web server, there is no single text/html 2020-08-21T22:32:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/laggdiskless?rev=1598049179&do=diff Using lagg(4) with diskless booting The lagg interface enables transparent failover between (eg) wired & wifi interfaces - making it trivial to combine the flexibility of walking around the house without any cables with the throughput of a wired interface by simply connecting and disconnecting the text/html 2013-06-08T11:07:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/loop.c?rev=1370689641&do=diff /* ** CPU-bound test */ #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> #include <err.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> void runit(double y, int fd, size_t len) { double x; double *bp; size_t i; char ch; bp = malloc(len); len /= sizeof(double); for (i = 0; i < len; i++) bp[i] = 1.0; if (write(fd, "x", 1) != 1) err(1, "write1"); if (read(fd, &ch, 1) != 1) err(1, "read1"); i = 0; for (x = 0.0; x < y; x += 1.0) { b… text/html 2010-12-04T05:15:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/mavvie-2010-12?rev=1291439710&do=diff Proposed date: Weekend of 11 and 12 december 2010 CANCELLED Preferences: Name 11 December 12 December Mavvie fine fine callum maybe no juha bleak maybe peter maybe fine text/html 2023-05-17T08:56:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/members?rev=1684313809&do=diff BUGS Members ---------- a b [Sue] Sue Blake was one of the founding members of BUGS and passed away from cancer early on 2010-Dec-17. She will be sadly missed. Sue was a sysadmin, sometimes adult educator and researcher, who ran FreeBSD on Intels and dabbled with BSD systems on Macintosh hardware and worked with that commercial unix which changes its company almost as often as its name. Sue lived in Darkinjung country near Sydney with her pet galah named Taffy, … text/html 2016-06-08T21:02:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/past_meetings?rev=1465419750&do=diff Past meetings Date Sunday, 21st August 2011 Location Andys' place, Miranda What Hang around and be geeks Attendees Andrew Snow, Peter Jeremy, Callum Gibson, Edwin Groothius (plus Naomi, Dirk and Hanorah briefly), Ben Wright, Matti Kupiainen text/html 2019-02-02T10:38:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/photos?rev=1549103934&do=diff Recent Photographs from Past Meetings This is a selection of some photos from past meetings. You will find links to even more on other sites on the past_meetings page. [sync was there at sam's shooting pics] [hrmm] [some of ... ] [the crew] [jashank jeremy, matti kupiainen, jonathan michaels] [andrew snow] [callum gibson] [jashank jeremy, andrew sinclair] [Alastair Boyanich (where is my vax?)] [sam lawrance, john marshall, peter jeremy] [Edwin] [Jonathan] [Glenn] [Matti] [Peter] [Sam] [Edwin … text/html 2019-03-28T20:17:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/proposed_topics?rev=1553804228&do=diff The following is a list of proposed topics for the BUGS IRC channel. * BUGS: *beep* U Got Spam. * BUGS: BSD Uses Geekish Systems. * BUGS: BSD Uses Generic Systems. * BUGS: Backwards Uttered Gibberish Sensible * BUGS: Basic Universal Grinding Sound (new HDD time?) text/html 2010-05-12T10:39:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/quotes?rev=1273660746&do=diff How to hold a beer while riding a Harley Nice one ! :-D [18:08:12] <kirma> ask jesus [18:12:46] --> lawrance has joined this channel (sam@120.20.240.127). [18:14:54] <lawrance> hello text/html 2016-05-26T14:32:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/sue1topic?rev=1464273178&do=diff * Topic for #bugs is: BSD User Group, Sydney * Topic for #bugs set by unixhag (Fri Jan 29 05:03:36 2010) text/html 2016-05-26T14:33:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/sue2topic?rev=1464273213&do=diff * Topic for ##bugs is: BSD User Group, Sydney * Topic for ##bugs set by unixhag (Thu Aug 13 09:02:55 2009) text/html 2008-08-22T09:56:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/talk_topics?rev=1219399012&do=diff Technical Presentation Topics This page lists potential topics for discussion or presentation at future BUGS meetings. Feel free to add something to the list if you are interested in a particular topic, and maybe someone will pick up the baton and discuss it at the next meeting. Conversely, if you see anything you feel you can shed light on and want to share it with other members, let us know on mailing lists or text/html 2013-06-30T11:53:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/ulevs4bsd?rev=1372593207&do=diff FreeBSD 4BSD vs ULE Scheduler In late 2011, there was an extremely long thread SCHED_ULE should not be the default spread between the FreeBSD-stable and FreeBSD-current mailing lists. That thread contains lots of claims and counter-claims but very little hard evidence to back up the claims. This page attempts to provide some real numbers. text/html 2013-06-08T11:01:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/ule_dmesg?rev=1370689312&do=diff *jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0090000. GDB: no debug ports present KDB: debugger backends: ddb KDB: current backend: ddb Copyright (c) 1992-2011 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #11: Mon Dec 5 08:06:05 EST 2011 root@aals174.au.alcatel-lucent.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC sparc64 W… text/html 2022-11-12T08:01:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/why_so_many?rev=1668240060&do=diff Why so many IRC Servers? Hysterical Raisins. The first #bugs channel was created on the irc.oz.org network by Patrick Kelso in early 2005. At some stage, perhaps due to the instability 2006, someone attempted to create a backup channel on freenode, being the obvious choice due to it's popularity. However, there were hoops to jump through in registering the channel properly, so it stayed as ##bugs for many years. This was only more recently addressed by Andrew Perry so that we had proper operato… text/html 2015-04-24T08:17:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/zfsraid?rev=1429863474&do=diff Expanding a ZFS RAID System This page documents my experiences in converting a 3-way RAIDZ1 pool into a 6-way RAIDZ2 pool (adding 3 new disks to the 3 original disk), with minimal downtime. The system boots off a UFS gmirror and this remains unchanged (though I have allocated equivalent space on the new disks to allow potential future conversion to ZFS). text/html 2017-04-15T05:29:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://bugs.rulingia.com/dokuwiki/zfsvdevs?rev=1492234183&do=diff Replacing faulty disks in a ZFS RAID System Here are my experiences with a faulty hard disk drive on a freshly installed FreeBSD-11.0 using auto ZFS option during the install to create a raidz2 with 4 disks Initial symptoms were Xorg frozen and some other services had crashed