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When Pig-Pen was actually my favourite character. Middle English spelling of Franklin.

My typewriter has hundreds of bits, from itty-bitty springs and pawls all the way up to 9-point character devices (they're write-only, though). It's made of steel and my teeth are not: my cat won't bite it even when I dare him to, so I'll concede that yours has more bites. I have a box of...

Raise your hemline by lowering your expectations According to http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide Number 1 makes some sense, number 2 sounds like a reiteration of number 1, & the rest are justifications rather than reasons, & I suspect that they don't...

If you're dead set against using partitions (I'll note here that you didn't say you were), consider buying a spare or two in advance & then explicitly planning to replace all further failed drives with definitely larger units. Of course, if you buy N spares you'll most likely have N+1 failures...

I don't know about historical incantations, but > ls -il `which CC g++ c++` 1208576 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 199800 Nov 30 21:13 /usr/bin/CC 1208576 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 199800 Nov 30 21:13 /usr/bin/c++ 1208576 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 199800 Nov 30 21:13 /usr/bin/g++ HTH

Well, I've had UFS(2) fail well enough to hose data three or four times, FAT[12|16|32] more times than I can count, NTFS is as fault-tolerant as the 880 (warning! California joke, sorry), and a wayward sand particle made a backup on CD rather . . . unreadable. I'm going to...

By and large I use my computer(s) to look at pictures of ducks & kittens and write all-caps e-mails to politicians. Fiddling with xorg and its demonic settings and options is a bit tiring. Until it can go out and find the fluffiest kitten pictures it's just a graphical layer to let me do that...

Grab a livefs disk (ensample*) boot from it and fix what you must from there. *I chused i386 because it's smaller and will work fine for these purposes.

You need to think about where using better-optimized compilation (in this case -msse3 & friends) is actually going to help: devel/gettext, probably not. multimedia/mplayer, probably lots. The odd breakage of mplayer would be a minor hassle (comment out some lines in /etc/make.conf &...

I don't know about you, but most PC-compat. hardware (as opposed to Macintosh) doesn't generate an interrupt when a disk is inserted, so you're kind of stuck. I guess you could set up a script that would probe fdc every so often and try to mount whatever is in it. Good luck with that, too.

It's so my non-existant baby elephant doesn't get tired cleaning my fictional Prius I'm curious as to why you're using bash when you don't know how to use bash. That said, try editing your ~/.profile (I think. I never remember which is for login shells & which is for interactive, non-login...

I have a typewriter from the 1950s, but I think it's probably a tad overpowered for that OS.

I think the polite term is "Well tested". There's definitely something to judicious caution when updating, especially in the wild & woolly world of open source.

Well, if it's going to do anything more complicated than grabbing the first N block(s) of the slice (or partition) and executing it, it must needs grok the filesystem. In particular, with ZFS there's no guarantee that the boot code is even on the first drive that the boot-loader might...

As far as the "won't boot linux" problem goes, you need to have grub or lilo installed in the first sector of your linux boot slice or booteasy won't be able to boot it. It's usually easier to just use grub as your main bootloader, honestly. I don't have a fnording clue about grub2, except...

I don't think we should donate to the FreeBSD project in flooz, either.

grep -i firewire /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES If you learn what sorts of words might be used, grep with the -R flag (& the -i flag to get around capitalization preferences) in directories like /usr/src/sys/conf/, /usr/src/sys/<arch>/conf/, /usr/share/mk/, & /usr/ports/Mk/ can get you places that...

ED is the STANDARD FNORDING text editor, you simian turd-flingers Do I really need to do it? Edited to say: I was once very new to the unix/linux/BSD world, & while looking for things to do, I discovered the notion of reading web-pages made of text with www/lynx, sending e-mail to...

Indeed, it's more like "disassemble everything that hasn't been upgraded and rebuild it whether it fits your old car or not".

Almost. Most everything is already aliased to That Which Works Best if you set CPUTYPE correctly. See /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk* for more info. *and his friends in /usr/share/mk/ & /usr/ports/Mk/