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Linux quit using HAL years ago. Which is the problem with HAL in FreeBSD, applications no longer speak it.

Unless you spend all your time in the VM, you're replacing it as your desktop.

It's because memetics and a catchy name are more important than the actual threat level. You can thank Heartbleed for starting that trend.

You don't need bash. (or gawk) calRow() { cal | awk -v row=$1 '{ if (NR==row) { print $0 } }' }

Re: POWER8 development: Why is the BSD community slow to joi Feel free to step up and work on it.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit/ "ConsoleKit is currently not actively maintained. The focus has shifted to the built-in seat/user/session management of Software/systemd called systemd-logind!"

You can change the user agent string in Firefox in about:config by adding the setting general.useragent.override and setting the value to something like Chrome for Windows. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36

It was the first of the 5th generation consoles. So it was superior to the 32X and 3DO which were available when it was released, but matched by the Saturn and beaten by the N64 and PlayStation.

Re: Embarassed It's because vim's vi-compatible mode doesn't let you. :set nocp will fix it, but you'll want to read the documentation to see what else it changes since I don't actually use vim.

Luckily there are a couple of bashisms in that Russian roulette code.

That's how the original comic was colored. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/ My guess is rage over having his expertise questioned.

If it looks like: You need to put exec startfluxbox in ~/.xinitrc (create one if it isn't there). Fluxbox should automatically be looking in the ~/.flulxbox directory for it's configuration files, which is where you seem to have put them. The only issue I see with the ~/.fluxbox/init file you...

Black text on a light background helps when you're working in brightly lit rooms. If you followed the other steps in the article, the white screen becomes annoyingly bright and hard on the eyes. Even if you do go with light backgrounds, you'll probably want something less harsh than pure white.

I wouldn't say there's significant interest in launchd, the efforts to port it to FreeBSD seem to be someone's side project. The original porting effort seemed to stagnate around 2005, and only recently has someone else picked up the torch. If you're interested in it, you'll probably find more...

*background: grey8 *foreground: #dedede

I think Linus is one of the few things keeping Linux from being ripped to shreds by all of the big names wanting it for themselves. I'll have some popcorn ready the day he decides to hang it up.

http://www.theos.com/deraadt/coremail.html

Why bother when you can avoid the problem to begin with?

It's already there. fortune -m "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it." %% (fortunes) Olivier's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

I'd probably go with cybernetics, but that's just my kind of sci-fi. The dogs can communicate with each other because they're dogs. The implants can help them communicate remotely, but they have their own language they speak to each other (bonus points if you use Klingon). They can communicate...