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I use an emulator called SIMH (/usr/ports/emulators/simh) to simulate a VAX computer running VMS. I'd like to get networking going between SIMH and my host computer so that I can do things like connect to an FTP server running on the "VAX" to transfer files back and forth and to the emulated...

FreeBSD seems to be the best rounded of any of the BSDs. It combines a clean design (A friend of mine who studies such things says FreeBSD has the "best" code of any OS he's ever "read"), reasonable portability (x86, x86-64, SPARC 64 and PPC should cover just about all the "real" computers in...

I'm using FreeBSD on my desktop/graphics workstation. I edit my photos using it and when school starts again in Fall, I'll do my papers on it. I'm also planning to create an electronic catalog system for my home library using PostgreSQL on the backend and either HTML and PHP or Python+Qt4 on the...

Squeak is supposedly one of the better versions of Smalltalk available today. Many of the people who worked on the original Smalltalk at PARC back in the 70s and 80s have been involved in creating Squeak and it certainly looks good. Sadly, I don't really know Smalltalk and most of the materials...

That's good to know. I suspect SIP's code output is rather poor so it takes a lot of work to optimize and compile the stuff. Maybe my old Athlon XP 3000+ just isn't up to the task :(

That was my first thought. Unfortunately, my make.conf consists solely of # added by use.perl 2009-06-03 09:44:48 PERL_VERSION=5.8.9 Any optimizations are either built into the build scripts by the upstream provider or were selected by me at the beginning of the port. I'll have to see if I can...

...when trying to build the specific file sipkdeuipart0.cpp as part of the building of the Python bindings. The computer just sits and sits and sits producing nothing. I've let the thing burn upwards of an hour of CPU time to no avail. I've seen other bug reports about this, but no real concrete...

Right now, it's not anything, my power supply died on my FreeBSD box, leaving me to operate on borrowed hardware only until I can get a new one. I copied my PolicyKit.conf from one somebody had posted that originates in PC-BSD and allows all users to mount and unmount removable media, though...

This just looks like part of Intel's plan to kill ARM. Not content to work behind the scenes to keep key fixes in GCC's ARM code generation from happening, it looks like Intel has now taken yet another step and is planning to buy and destroy one of the leading suppliers of cross-platform...

Is this possible? Realistically, I just want to access printers that are hosted by another machine in the house which is running Linux and using CUPS as its' print system. Is there any way to be a simple client to a printer shared via IPP without adding yet another subsystem? Everything I've...

I've had all those problems...

I'm seriously starting to think so, at least with XFCE... GEOM creates device names that make mounting removable media from the command line quite simple. HAL, even using the configuration from PC-BSD seems unable to mount most of the stuff I attach to my computer (maybe one out of every five...

Ksh93 has been FOSS for a number of years. There's no need to be on a proprietary system to use it. It's in the ports tree even. It didn't build correctly for me :(

Just a note: the /bin/sh present in FreeBSD is NOT actually the Bourne Shell, it's the POSIX shell. The Bourne Shell came from AT&T and thus had to be replaced when in order for BSD to be releasable to people who didn't have a source license from Bell Labs. While the Bourne Shell was eventually...

I use WEP (Yes I know its useless, but I don't control the router/AP) Strangely, though, in the time it took me to post this, my computer found the network and connected. I guess the atmospheric conditions just meant it took longer than usual to connect or something.

After finding out that my /home partition in Linux had some sort of massive corruption, I decided to take the plunge and install FreeBSD on my entire hard drive. Sadly, however, the wireless configuration which worked absolutely flawlessly last night when FreeBSD was only installed on part of my...