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    An admin needs to delete my account

    I have been a member since 2009, but seven years ago I stopped because of the repeated actions of another member who had the support of the admins. Then a few months ago I came back and then saw where another member asked to be deleted because of the same actions which caused me to pause...
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    Shell How to tell if a program exists and is executable

    Of course it does, Sherlock. That's what the OR means. Are you unable to see the results from my output? Since I've been doing UNIX professionally for 30 years, meaning getting paid to do it, I fully understand the difference between OR and AND.
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    Shell How to tell if a program exists and is executable

    I don't think this is going to give the results expected $ test -x ksh ||echo exists exists $ test -x nosuchfile ||echo exists exists $ test -x $(which ksh) ||echo exists $ test -x $(which nosuchfile) ||echo exists $ This is probably what you want (does the file exist and is it executable)...
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    The Case for Rust (in the base system)

    From Phoronix comment #4 ArcaOS (the "new" OS/2) has acknowledged users want Wi-Fi adapters to work, but they have prioritized UEFI over Wi-Fi saying, "If your server doesn't boot, then nothing else matters." Apparently, Redox has flipped that backwards: "If your server is slow, everything...
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    tape backups in 2024

    USB sticks are less durable and prone to more physical wear and tear than hard drives. There are USB LTO tape drives. Expensive though. Probably around $7,000, although you can probably find some less expensive and also find used ones. Optical drives are another medium used for backups. All...
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    HEADS UP: FreeBSD is stopping all 32-bit Hardware support except ARMv7

    That isn't fair. FreeBSD VuXML Documenting security issues in FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Ports Collection 2009-11-03 vlc -- stack overflow in MPA, AVI and ASF demuxer 2009-11-02 KDE -- multiple vulnerabilities 2009-10-31 opera -- multiple vulnerabilities 2009-10-28 Enhanced cTorrent --...
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    ZFS How to mount external linux (ext4) sata disk on FreeBSD with ZFS, so the files can be accessed and copied.

    Older, and uses fusefs which it is said doesn't need to be used now. Mouting Linux Filesystems (ext2/ext3/ext4)
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    Blackhole info?

    Re: can't add a /24 blackhole route with a /32 loopback In function fill_blackholeinfo(struct rt_addrinfo *info, union sockaddr_union *saun) in /sys/net/rtsock.c if (info->rti_ifa == NULL) { RTS_PID_LOG(LOG_INFO, "Unable to find ifa for blackhole/reject nhop"); return...
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    Solved How to retrieve IP addresss of ssh server

    arp -a | grep -i '00:23:24:64:BF:CD' | awk -F'[()]' '{print $2}' Or, if you want to explicitly extract an IP address arp -a | grep -i '00:23:24:64:BF:CD' | grep -oE '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}'
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    FreeBSD 50% higher power consumption than Debian

    Brendan Gregg, a former Sun Microsystems kernel engineer, former performance engineer at Joyent, former senior performance engineer at Netlix, and now performance engineer at Intel, has talked about this. I'd have to dig up his past comments, but performance tuning at the OS leads to little...
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    Lennart Poettering goes to Microsoft

    I noticed that too. I'd imagine it was supposed to be 36.0 instead. 40 Operating System Statistics: Who Could Dominate in 2024?
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    Lennart Poettering goes to Microsoft

    Operating System market share 2018-2023: Windows is the clear leader in desktop operating systems. If mobile is included, Android and iOS, have a larger market share than desktops. Linux, FreeBSD, and others as desktop operating systems are niche and will never be anything other than that...
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    How to set priority for multiple network interfaces?

    Any chance of using carp for the interfaces? I know it probably isn't what you want, but it would at least take care of the availability locally.
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    Solved How to install/enable SFTP/SSH2 Support for PHP 8.1?

    security/pecl-ssh2 (v1.0) --> PHP 7 only There doesn't appear to be an 8.1 update. pecl-networking-ssh2 phpize ./configure make Requires security/libssh2
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    Other HOWTO share labeled swap between FreeBSD & Linux

    Don't put the Linux partition into hibernate while using the FreeBSD partition because Linux writes to swap on hibernate, and FreeBSD would overwrite that.
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    C++ Is it possible to statically compile Qt 5.6 on FreeBSD?

    GCC bug list GCC bug list 2 for PCH allocation failure
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    Configuring two Internet gateways

    speedtest-cli --source <ip> Where the IP would be from either NIC, and the ue0 IP should get routed through fib 1. I guess there are some versions of speedtest which have a -I option: speedtest-cli -I ue0
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