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    (mostly) Keyboard only works when CAPS lock on

    Were you able to figure out which setting it was that got corrupted? I have the same problem. Two user accounts on a PCBSD system with old config files get no lowercase letters, unless capslock is on and holding down the shift key, or before KDE is started. A newly created user account does...
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    The end is nigh!

    Doomsday isn't all that near. 25 years and 4 weeks, give or take a day. ;)
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    How Did PC-BSD 9.1 Get Released Before FreeBSD 9.1?

    Whoops. You're right, sorry.
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    9.1-RELEASE is available on FTP

    Many people want to upgrade just once, following the releases, and then not have to upgrade again a few weeks later. Thanks for the Christmas present, FreeBSD!
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    How Did PC-BSD 9.1 Get Released Before FreeBSD 9.1?

    The news release is on the http://www.freebsd.org homepage, under Latest News, second item down, dated Dec. 18.
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    How Did PC-BSD 9.1 Get Released Before FreeBSD 9.1?

    FreeBSD 9.1 has been released now. I think PC-BSD was all set to go as soon as the FreeBSD release was out and may have happened to get on the news feed first.
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    Reminiscing about the mainframe days ...

    You're wrong. You're wrong even when you're wrong in boldface and italics. I did have the pleasure of using DEC-20s and sometimes DEC-10s, and talking to the people in DEC's Large Computer Group. You'll find some of them on alt.folklore.computers. I do not depend on Wikipedia for this, I...
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    Learning C programming, C99 or not

    I also recommend C: A Reference Manual, by Harbison and Steele, currently in its 5th edition (2002). It's not a tutorial, but if you want the real nitty gritty on some language construction and what will be portable between dialects of C and what may not be portable, this is the one to get.
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    Why Never Follow Schedule?

    But I am speaking about "promises" given. It's not a promise, it's an estimate. It even says right on the web page with the estimate, "Release dates are approximate and may be subject to schedule slippage." Actually, I've been using FreeBSD since version 5, and the releases have always been...
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    Why do you use FreeBSD?

    I like and am used to the BSD directory structure. System V directory structure just seems weird.
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    Tab for File Completion: only as su, not as user

    You'd guess wrong. :) It's for TOPS-20, the first modern timesharing OS. TOPS-20 featured a command interpreter with command and filename completion in some ways even better than tcsh. See the next to the last section of the tcsh man page.
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    Reminiscing about the mainframe days ...

    Um, no. DEC's biggest machines were the PDP-10 mainframes, which were comparable to a mid-range IBM mainframe. DEC cancelled new developments of their mainframe line in 1983 in order to put more resources into the Vax, but it was 10 years before the biggest Vax was as powerful as the largest...
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