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    NVIDIA G98M [Quadro NVS 160M] card on Dell Latitude E6500 Laptop

    You could try the package for x11/nvidia-settings. Perhaps your resolution is at 1920x1200 but your dpi is set too high?
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    NVIDIA G98M [Quadro NVS 160M] card on Dell Latitude E6500 Laptop

    I belive the driver you need for that card is x11/nvidia-driver-340 Also see the Nvidia how-to 52311
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    Does a GUI package manager exist?

    ports-mgmt/octopkg
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    GSmartControl

    sysutils/gksu, then create a launcher for gksu gsmartmontools.
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    ffmpeg x11grab and v4l2-ctl

    This website may be of use to you: http://www.rockafunk.org/
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    Book on C programming. Still good?

    Read whatever books you like. The C99 standard adds little over the C89 standard. Some of the commands to compile and link etc may be different (or platform specific) but the actual code and explanations should be relevant.
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    Build port but install dependencies with pkg

    ports-mgmt/portmaster used to let you do this, but has not been updated to use the new package commands :-(
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    Anyone have video chat via Facebook or hangouts working?

    I believe hangouts requires a propriety plugin to do video which Google does not provide for FreeBSD. You could try net-im/uTox for an open source video chat client, can anyone suggest any other solutions?
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    Portmaster - understanding it better

    Is there plans for ports-mgmt/portmaster to support the new pkg system?
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    GNOME3 - sound mixer

    I have uploaded the version the author compiled for me, works great on my amd64 install.
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    GNOME3 - sound mixer

    I use this 52665.
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    How to minimize the number of writes to CF card?

    Use tmpfs for writable parts of the system. mount the rest read only.
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    FreeBSD MIDI/audio How-To

    Regarding MIDI I believe the only support is through USB via the snd_uaudio driver. You can probably use the likes of audio/fluidsynth if you need soundfonts and audio/ardour or audio/rosegarden if need a DAW.
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    Default repository changed to quarterly in 10.2

    I saw this when I did a pkg upgrade -f some_pkg and it downgraded the package!
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    Video chat

    net-im/uTox seems really good, just need to convince the rest of the world to ditch skype....
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    Video chat

    Just had this problem myself, emailed the port maintainer who had the solution. [oss] device = /dev/dsp capture = /dev/dsp4 to $HOME/.alsoftrc see also /usr/local/etc/openal-soft/alsoftrc.sample
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    hXmixer GUI mixer application

    Came across this little gem while searching for a GUI mixer so I don't have to mess with the command line every time I want to adjust my USB microphones volume. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hXmixer I emailed the author who very kindly sent me a binary saving the installing ~800mB of...
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    Virtualization of Windows

    Virtualbox does have some 3D and 2D acceleration, settings->display. I think this is some kind of OpenGL pass-through.
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