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Yeah, it seems as though they are in high demand as well!

Hi! Its about that time again (upgrades). I'd be interested in knowing whether anyone has any compatibility information for the single CPU Supermicro motherboard H11SSL-NC? On their website they haven't yet validated FreeBSD, so I'm keen to know if anyone out there has tried it on that or any...

And there are larger issues as well, starting with the management engine.

If that is true then it might signify that certain customers might have been provided with the fix...government agencies and so on, while everyone else was left in the cold.

Is it only DragonFly that has a fix currently? https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/7och5a/freebsd_was_made_aware_of_meltdown_and_spectre_in/ds9tf3s/ Nothing yet from Net or Open either?

Terrible. Looks like Intel's performance lead over the competition all these years was because they were cutting corners on security. The purported fix for this has been shown to result in a 30% decrease in CPU performance. I can see some cloud providers going under over this. They operate very...

Hmm. Just a hunch, but have you tried wiping the install disk completely before installing - using dd for instance? I've found that if I haven't done this, sometimes information from previously used RAID controllers or ZFS related boot information can be left on the disk making subsequent...

Hello! Alrighty. The following seems to give me only the file names, how can I pipe them further? pdfgrep -r "poliomyelitis" *.pdf | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u

Hi, I am using pdfgrep to search within a directory of PDF files for a predetermined character string and then then either copy or rsync the files which contain those strings to another directory. So far I have come up somewhat short, I am able to find and print the files, but have had little...

I guess this is the discussion https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=142755452428573&w=2 concerning the previous official attempt to port HAMMER2 to OpenBSD.

I have some doubts about HAMMER2 ever appearing in FreeBSD. FreeBSD has ZFS and has invested a lot of resources into making it work and perform well on that platform. ZFS has many good years ahead of it on FreeBSD and more and more people are being sold on FreeBSD/ZFS as a solid basis for...

This is a discussion that's long overdue. At least one megacorp is trying to do something about it - http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-removing-minix-management-engine-intel,35876.html

Right. Only time will tell I guess. The crux of the issue with regards to OpenBSD though is that they need a next gen FS and there aren't exactly many next gen BSD/ISC licensed filesystems around.

HAMMER2 is ultimately designed to operate as a clustered filesystem. So unlike say ZFS which does local redundancy with block devices within one server, HAMMER2 is designed to be able to negotiate transactions between and offer redundancy via block devices located across multiple servers with...

For truly deblobbed hardware you basically have two choices nowadays. The Asus D16 motherboard with coreboot/libreboot https://store.vikings.net/libre-friendly-hardware Or the Talos II OpenPower 9 system from Raptor Engineering https://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ Given the ongoing debacle with the...

Superb, this works quite well. Thanks!

Hmm. This sounds interesting. So in theory this is what you had in mind? find . -type f -name 'a*' -exec exiftool '-filename<$title.%e' . \; How could I script this to act on one directory for each letter of the alphabet? I can go up to 32 threads.

Hello, I have been using exiftool '-filename<$title.%e' . in order to rename thousands of scientific articles that were downloaded with annoyingly cryptic filenames. Some colleagues found out that I have been doing this and now I am the "PDF-renamer-person" in the office. However, the process...

Hmm. Looking very interesting. Can't wait to read the independent reviews.

It should be in the 5.0 RELEASE which I've read is supposed to be released sometime next week. I for one am very interested in trying the live dedup feature.