{"id":1800,"date":"2009-04-30T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2009-04-30T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:39:14","slug":"link-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/04\/30\/link-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best of the Internet today, according to me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/45.html\">OpenBSD 4.5<\/a> comes out May 1st, but is available on their site now. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/45.html#new\">the changelog<\/a>.<\/li>\n    <li>For whatever reason, they don&#8217;t provide a torrent. (Likely because, unlike Ubuntu, it&#8217;s rarely distributed as one ISO.) I&#8217;d assume the mirrors are going to be crushed soon. I found <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/torrent\/4868415\/OpenBSD_4.5_i386\">this Pirate Bay torrent<\/a>, a good reminder that not everything there is illegal. I&#8217;m downloading it now, but it&#8217;s quite lonely.<\/li>\n    <li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.geekdojo.net\/andy\/articles\/2318.aspx\">a decent OpenBSD install guide<\/a>, thought it&#8217;s not 4.5-specific. Although far from impossible to install, OpenBSD was <em>not<\/em> designed with ease of install in mind. (OpenBSD 4.5&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/45.html#install\">official install guide<\/a> is available, too, of course.)<\/li>\n    <li>I&#8217;ve posted about it before, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfsense.com\/\">pfSense<\/a> is meant to be a spiffy FreeBSD-based firewall and router platform with a good web GUI, for those of you who find OpenBSD really tough to install, or who have a pf.conf with a lengthy QoS section that doesn&#8217;t actually work. It&#8217;s got a pretty impressive list of features, too.<\/li>\n    <li>For a complete change of pace, Popular Mechanics has a new post, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/home_journal\/tools\/4314786.html\">Top 50 Important Tools<\/a>. So pointless and yet so interesting. I&#8217;ve got to say, though, that I love my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leatherman.com\/multi-tools\/full-size-tools\/wave.aspx\">Leatherman<\/a>, which should really be #51, if not higher.<\/li>\n    <li>Everyone is a little bit baffled, but Xapbr posts a Thank You for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xaprb.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/25\/thank-you-for-the-mysql-54-community-release\/\">MySQL 5.4 Community<\/a>. I think the baffling is due to several things: (1) There wasn&#8217;t much talk about MySQL 5.4 as a community release, (2) No one&#8217;s entirely sure where MySQL 5.2 and 5.3 went, and (3) Xapbr&#8217;s post makes reference to how we&#8217;re more fortunate than we realize for there being a community release for MySQL 5.4, which a paranoid person such as me takes to mean, &#8220;I can&#8217;t say it, but Sun\/MySQL Corp. almost didn&#8217;t release a GPL version of 5.4.&#8221; Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/mysql-5.4-features\/en\/index.html\">a summary of what&#8217;s new<\/a>. Based on the legalese disclaimer, I <em>think<\/em> it&#8217;s legal for me to link to it. A very incomplete summary: better performance on multi-core machines, and a Query Optimizer that&#8217;s worth a hoot when doing sub-selects. (&#8220;SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE id IN (SELECT id FROM t2)&#8221; would never, ever use an index, for example, and would often behave even worse than you&#8217;d expect.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best of the Internet today, according to me: OpenBSD 4.5 comes out May 1st, but is available on their site now. Check out the changelog. For whatever reason, they don&#8217;t provide a torrent. (Likely because, unlike Ubuntu, it&#8217;s rarely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/04\/30\/link-roundup-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}