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Want to learn how not to write code? We rip apart broken UTF-8 logic from the OpenBSD codebase. It's not pretty.
Unimpressed by /dev/null and /dev/zero? Let's see how to code some new memory special devices.
CDs go in and out, and tapes unload. But what exactly does the eject command do to a humble USB flash drive?
Learn how to add new ioctls to the wscons code to implement a screenshot facility on the OpenBSD console.
More BSD hacking - the console emulation code gets tweaked to be more compatible with the terminfo entry for xterm.
From individuals to enterprise, you should all be backing up your data. Are you? Jay has some advice.
Blu-ray recordable discs and DVD-RAM on OpenBSD? Crystal Kolipe shows us how!
Jay shows us another way to relay mail from a VM to our LAN using pure SMTP and without a static IP.
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