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The Server Room Show episodes

  • TSR - The Server Room - Episode 24 - Interview with George Neville-Neil from FreeBSD - Part II.

    Questions ( Episodes 23 - 24 / Part I. - II. )  Q1: Your earliest memories of a computer? Did You grew up around them?

    Q2: Computer Science in Northeastern University in Boston

    Q3: Did You get involved with BSD before or after it got taken over by Wind River?

    Q4: Wind River and VxWorks ... Can You tell me more about them and Your involvement with both?

    Q5: I know from other talks You gave You really like Embedded computing and the challenges which comes with them. What do You like in them?Complexity?The challenge they represent?

    Q6: If You had to compare VxWorks to FreeBSD when it comes to the Embedded industry  Can they compete with one another or VxWorks just leagues ahead when it comes to embedded devices? perhaps coming from that one is designed from the ground up to serve the purpose of being on embedded devices?

    Q7: How did You get into FreeBSD?

    1a.: NetBSD with the running it on all (including microwaves did not sound more of a challengefor someone like Yourself who hacks the kernel all day long?

    Q8: You are the author/coauthor of many books on BSD and FreeBSD with Kirk McKusick

    How was it to work and coauthor a technical book/paper with someone legendary like him?

    Q9:

    Do You think if BSD didn’t get hold up in court by ATT / Unix Systems Laboratories We would have BSD *FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD * where Linux is today and perhaps Linux did not even exist today as there would have been no gap on the market to fill which resulted L. Torvalds to write the Linux Kernel?

    Q10:

    On FreeBSD You are also lead of the Kernel team / whom oversee changes and improvements getting into the FreeBSD kernel.. Can You tell me more about it?

    Q11: On Your website it mentions Your consulting company. Is this the typical pick my brain - hear my advice on X thing You want to do with Your company ) networking, security, etc.)?

    Q12: What did You run on Your machine at home? Any special HW Or Hobby?

    More info:

    https://viktormadarasz.freeshell.net

    George's website: http://www.neville-neilconsulting.com/

    30 min
  • TSR - The Server Room - Episode 23 - Interview with George Neville-Neil from FreeBSD - Part I.

    Questions ( Episodes 23 - 24 / Part I. - II. )


    Q1:
    Your earliest memories of a computer?
    Did You grew up around them?

    Q2:

    Computer Science in Northeastern University in Boston

    Q3:

    Did You get involved with BSD before or after it got taken over by Wind River?

    Q4:

    Wind River and VxWorks ... Can You tell me more about them and Your involvement with both?

    Q5:

    I know from other talks You gave You really like Embedded computing and the challenges which comes with them.
    What do You like in them?Complexity?The challenge they represent?

    Q6:

    If You had to compare VxWorks to FreeBSD when it comes to the Embedded industry

    Can they compete with one another or VxWorks just leagues ahead when it comes to embedded devices?
    perhaps coming from that one is designed from the ground up to serve the purpose of being on embedded devices?

    Q7:

    How did You get into FreeBSD?

    1a.: NetBSD with the running it on all (including microwaves did not sound more of a challengefor someone like Yourself who hacks the kernel all day long?

    Q8:

    You are the author/coauthor of many books on BSD and FreeBSD with Kirk McKusick

    How was it to work and coauthor a technical book/paper with someone legendary like him?

    Q9:

    Do You think if BSD didn’t get hold up in court by ATT / Unix Systems Laboratories We would have BSD *FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD * where Linux is today and perhaps Linux did not even exist today as there would have been no gap on the market to fill which resulted L. Torvalds to write the Linux Kernel?

    Q10:

    On FreeBSD You are also lead of the Kernel team / whom oversee changes and improvements getting into the FreeBSD kernel.. Can You tell me more about it?

    Q11:

    On Your website it mentions Your consulting company. Is this the typical pick my brain - hear my advice on X thing You want to do with Your company ) networking, security, etc.)?

    Q12:

    What did You run on Your machine at home?
    Any special HW Or Hobby?       

    More info:

    https://viktormadarasz.freeshell.net

    George's website:

    http://www.neville-neilconsulting.com/

    30 min
  • TSR - The Server Room - Episode 22 - 9 Tools You can use when working from home during the Global Lockdown of #Covid19

    9 Tools You can use when working from home during the Global Lockdown of #Covid19

    • Jitsi video conferencing (Open Source, Self Hosting possible)
      • https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
    • OpenBoard for presentation and whiteboard with record function
      • https://openboard.ch/index.en.html
    • Microsoft Teams for Linux
      • https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-teams-is-now-available-on-linux/ba-p/1056267
    • Joplin personal notes to-do , can sync around with dropbox , nextcloud, etc.
      • https://joplinapp.org/
    • Riot team chat (Open Source, Self Hosting possible or use modular.im for hosted riot.im instance) built on the matrix protocol
      • https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse
      Organise rooms around whatever team, community purpose you like! Chat, share files, add widgets, and make video/voice calls and conferences
    • Etherpad shared documents (Open Source, Self Hosting Possible)
      • https://etherpad.org/#links
      https://etherpad.org/
    • Ethercalc shared spreadsheets (web sporeadsheet)
      • https://ethercalc.net/
    • Nextcloud shared storage and calendar
      • https://nextcloud.com/
    • Linux or BSD - Try something new
      • https://www.freebsd.org/
      https://getfedora.org/
      30 min
    • TSR - The Server Room - Episode 21 - Andronix, Termux, Brave , Scrcpy, BalenaFin, BalenaSound - ReMastered

      Talking about many smaller topics instead of one big one today

      • Andronix
      • Termux
      • Scrcpy
      • Brave
      • BalenaFin , BalenaSound
      • Calling to Arms - People from Spain - Trying to Revive the FreeBSD User Group for Spain

        • Video Recording of the Show: ( show starts at 9:13 minutes)

        https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/12c97d04-4824-4d0e-91e8-5332cd64c570

        Contact details and up to date info at Mastodon:

        https://mastodon.sdf.org/web/accounts/218965

        30 min
      • TSR - The Server Room - Episode 20 - Distributed Systems & Distributed Computing - ReMastered

        Video Recording:

        https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/watch/0ffb6d20-2151-444a-a860-c26754cabe90

        Shownotes:

        https://anonradio.net/djs/tsr-the-server-room/

        Install #Folding@Home on Your Computers and Join the Server Room Show's team effort to help find a cure for #Covid19 using the team code 258277

        Contact Information

        Email

        Telegram Chat Group

        https://t.me/tsrpodcast

        VOIP // PSTN

        +1 910 665 9191

        30 min
      • TSR - The Server Room - Episode 17 - Unix - ReMastered

        Topic: UNIX

        posted the twitch.tv/viktormadarasz live feed during the podcast to Youtube for the moment.. if anyone wants to watch the video feed which went together with the audio broadcast ** i think it will be like this from now on .. going forward *

        video link to be updated soon...


        Table of contents:


        Overview

        History

        POSIX

        Impact

        Unix 

        Free Unix and Unix like variants

        30 min
      • TSR - The Server Room - Episode 15 - Virtualization Part II - ReMastered

        Continue of Episode 14 Virtualization Part I. also introducing New Background Music :) and even going overtime with 1 minute

        Shownotes for Episode 14 and 15 are the same with a divider showing where one episode finishes and where the other one starts


        As always for time restrains Shownotes often contain more information and extra bits which I had no time to talk about at all or fully during the live broadcast

        32 min

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