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Linux Torvalds said that, if BSD was available (it was involved in a lawsuit at the time), he never would have created Linux.

Note that the Google link I provided was a search of this forum but, otherwise, use whatever search engine you like. There is a search link at the top right of this page but, for some reason, was very slow when I tried it.

NPR (National Public Radio) yesterday. I was in the car listening to the radio. I'll try and find a link. EDIT: Actually it was The World which is carried on my local NPR station: The World

I want to remind everybody that yesterday was April 1st.

Back in the 1980s, when the Chevrolet Corvette was still produced in my town, a co-worker's brother was a big Corvette enthusiast and arranged a tour of the plant and invited me along. It was there we found out that they allowed over 200 defects in the body and paint work on each car to the...

China is starting to build EVs in Budapest. The news story I heard just yesterday is they are employing slave labor tactics by importing their own citizens and working them 12 hour days, 7 days a week which has caught the ire of human rights activists and the law.

I don't want to sound unfriendly but...............**sigh** This gets asked all over the internet almost every day. A simple Google search will provide you a million and one answers to the question. For that matter, a a forum search here

Alain De Vos You need to move to the USA.

Some people may find that interesting but it has nothing to do with FreeBSD. Or Linux for that matter.

There was no server takedown attempt. It was forum software only and the problem was isolated to that and that alone. The server was fine. The mods had complete control over the server and were able to fix the XenForo software by remote access through the server. The server itself was not...

You are confused and having hardened FreeBSD even more would not have solved the problem. The problem was with XenForo's software taking XenForo's generated forum offline. FreeBSD was not involved in that process directly as evidenced by the fact that Linux XenForo forums were also taken over...

What we're trying to do is just establish that the power supply is working with a very fundamental test. By taking the negative lead of the voltmeter, the black one, and touching the black wire of one of the connectors (or the metal of the case but that might not work) and then touching the red...

OK. So I'd bet you have one connector that's not hooked to anything. Or you can remove a connector to a peripheral device like networking or the graphics card. Black is ground. Measure the voltages on the other pins. You should have something on all or most of them. But you only need to test one...

Well let's think about that. I would think chainsaws would be less secure if they were running but pigs are always on except when they're sleeping.

hruodr Do you have or can borrow a voltmeter? I don't remember what country you're in but Harbor Freight sells a cheap one for under $12 and I once saw it on sale for $4. It would be good enough.

hruodr On my monitors, when there is nothing coming from the computer, it puts a note up on the screen saying "no signal". Does yours do that? Turn the computer off or unplug the monitor cable if needed.

I'm blurting things out between runs. That you're getting a cursor tells me the processor is doing some things but it's not displaying the motherboard's boot screen which I assume it has. This might indicate the problem is with the motherboard's boot code. On mine, I think you can reset or...

The hack also took down linux.org's forum so I guess it's not a good look for Linux forums, too, eh?

What do you mean by "doesn't boot"? Do you mean it doesn't power up at all? Are the fans spinning up? Or is it powering up but you only get a black screen with a blinking cursor? Or is it showing more than that on the screen? If so, what is it showing?

.......A funny line but it doesn't work here so I removed it.