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Like it says, you must edit /etc/motd if you wish to change it. For example, on my system I have it trimmed down to: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 (THINKPAD) #2: Wed Aug 26 09:31:29 EDT 2009 Welcome to FreeBSD! Edit: Oh, I see that the OP wants to get to a desktop instead.

Here's mine (which are different) /usr => "slash user" or "root user" /etc => sometimes I just call this "et cetera" vim => "vee eye em" regex => With a hard(?) g. It's shorthand for "reg-u-lar ex-pres-sion", so I believe this is correct. fstab => "eff stab" gnu => "guh new" sudo => "sue dough"...

Uh... 8 is -CURRENT. :P (Or maybe it's 9 now?)

I used to use vimperator, but since then I have switched to uzbl. I love how, unlike Firefox, it adhears to the Unix Philosophy by letting non-browsing related features (bookmarks, history, downloads, etc.) be handled through external scripts. And, like vimperator, it can be entirely controlled...

echoing the output to something like dzen2 is even simpler. This is what I use to see my battery life in my xmonad status bar.

Not that I'm aware of, and even if you could get Gnome installed, it's my guess that it's using ACPI as well.

I don't know any GUI applications for this, but you can check it with sysctl: % sysctl hw.acpi.battery hw.acpi.battery.life: -1 hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 hw.acpi.battery.state: 7 hw.acpi.battery.units: 1 hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5 ...although my values are currently -1 since I don't...

As I understand it, -r will only delete packages which depend on the ones being removed, not packages which were dependencies for the removed packages. Packages like qt won't be removed using this command. I would recommend (after this advice) to use a tool such as ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves or...

From /usr/ports/MOVED: sysutils/pkg_remove|ports-mgmt/pkg_remove|2007-02-05|Moved to a new category

Wow, that works much nicer. How exactly does that work, and how are you able to give arguments to srand()?

If you run it just once, yes. If you run it multiple times in a row, the "random" numbers aren't really all that random. This is because the seed that srand() uses is the system time. I also found out that this whole thread seems kind of pointless, since srand() actually takes no arguments...

That wireless card is supported on OpenBSD. From what I've heard, there is someone currently porting the driver to FreeBSD, but it's not in -CURRENT yet. You may be able to get it to work with ndis, but not yet with a native FreeBSD driver.

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I use weechat, but not the one in ports (0.2.6). Currently, I'm building the development version from git. All I have to say is that weechat > *. Try it for yourself and find out why. ;) The only thing that I don't like about it is that it is released under a GPL3 license. I used to write...

Awesome, thanks. But now it seems like awk doesn't respect PROCINFO like gawk does. % gawk 'BEGIN{ print PROCINFO["pid"]}' 10580 % awk 'BEGIN{ print PROCINFO["pid"]}' According to the gawk documentation, PROCINFO["pid"] returns the process ID of the current process. Any idea how to get...

Well, I have it kind of working with gawk, but I would really prefer to have a solution using awk from base for portability. gawk 'BEGIN { srand(systime() + PROCINFO["pid"]); print rand() }' (taken from here) Unfortunately, systime() is only provided with gawk. Any good ideas on how to...

I'm trying to select a random item from a list with awk, but I'm finding that awk's rand() feature isn't quite working as expected. % awk 'BEGIN{ srand(); print rand(); }' 0.889922 % awk 'BEGIN{ srand(); print rand(); }' 0.88993 % awk 'BEGIN{ srand(); print rand(); }' 0.88993 % awk 'BEGIN{...

Yes. Want you want to use is a tool called grep. I'll leave it up to you to read the manpage, but generally you should be able to do something like: grep -r 'your search here' *

Yes. If you think FreeBSD boots fast, you should check out Haiku. My Haiku install literally boots in no more than 9 seconds. :e

w3m is MIT licensed, which is very similar to the 2-clause BSD license that FreeBSD uses.