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Much reading to do you have, padawan ;)

I am Manley Pager, just a simple man trying to make it through these difficult ages. Not an IT professional or even a hobbyist. Just someone with an appreciation for simplicity and a lot of time on his hands. My personal computing needs are few...

Maybe this document by bsdimp would be helpful. And documents for creating diff using git on Internet usually assumes using branches for the cases new files are added. Assuming casual developer and/or tester like me, usually (no additions) git...

Well, it's not just about our own age. As we get older, the correlation between ourselves aging and the aging of code only increases. My first thought was that cut wasn't going to make it, however: $ echo 'cat | grep | cut | tr | (simple) sed'...

Git is difficult for me. I learned enough to do essential tasks with it. Then, I forgot it. I read an open source book and other documentation. I eventually had to ask for help on IRC on how to do final steps, which I couldn't find the...

Well, if you really lucky (meaning there won't be any conflicts), all you have to do is patch -p2 < patchfile.diff in /usr/src/ directory. If there are conflicts though, you'll have to ask the patch author, not here.

Missing of examples in man pages makes it many times hard for absolute beginners to understand. In this case make a web search, keywords i.e. "freebsd linux how to apply a patch(1) examples". One of the search results (depending of the search...

Pople simply chose to be stupid and lazy. Ignorance is bliss.

Much reading to do you have, padawan ;)

I am Manley Pager, just a simple man trying to make it through these difficult ages. Not an IT professional or even a hobbyist. Just someone with an appreciation for simplicity and a lot of time on his hands. My personal computing needs are few...

There are typically two different workloads. High demand for single thread performance and high demand for multi threaded performance. What intel/amd sell is high in single thread performance, this is what sells them. When you need a lot of...

Thank you very much. I did all except vfs.usermount=1. "The two-year-old is a truant" :).

Apparently mounting encrypted datasets by zfs-allow'ed user, vfs.usermount=1 must be set in any case, and, unlike unencrypted datasets, the dataset mount point must be owned by the user. Example: To make "usermount" permanent: /etc/sysctl.conf...

What are your requirements? One developer, dozens, tens of thousands? How big is your repository? Do you need to store binaries in the repository? Do you need security and access control? Is it going to be used within a single closed environment...

Another convention I've missed, but is no longer active: PkgsrcCon. It has been hosted in cities across Europe, and the last conference was in 2019. The first one was in 2004 in Vienna. https://pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2019/ This is in addition to...

The closest I ever got was Atari 800 and drives I got from Dad. I did write a port of Xmodem in 6502 ASM. Most everything else was Atari basic.

Another convention I've missed, but is no longer active: PkgsrcCon. It has been hosted in cities across Europe, and the last conference was in 2019. The first one was in 2004 in Vienna. https://pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2019/ This is in addition to...

I have a FreeBSD 14-3-RELEASE VM that I've added a new mirrored pool, created ZFS filesystem and set the mount point. The problem I'm running into is that the pool does not get imported when the VM reboots and the pools filesystem is not...

About Fossil: I thought I saw that on one of those comparison sites. I'm not sure whether it meant if security was needed that: fossil was over plain text, which often doesn't matter for VCS, or it had to do with data integrity. I possibly...

Could you please elaborate on that?

By default devel/fossil (sort of) works like devel/subversion in that it synchronizes to a central repository, but it also has the advantages of distributed source control management. See the section 4.0 Workflow in this Fossil Concepts document.

The pool was created in 2017 (2017-08-02.20:49:11 zpool create astral /dev/ada2), probably on FreeBSD 10.something? I don't recall modifying any properties or enabling dedup, though.

PowerPC is tier 2 on 13 and 14, which are still supported versions. The others, yeah, might need to remove them. But it's not "promoting" anything, it's just an explanation of what can be posted in that section.

Indeed. That included a mass-market Unix based OS and stuff like that. It was a direct follow-on to all the "big" computer companies getting into the personal computer market, famously starting with IBM's PC (sic). In the case of IBM, it took...

I think it was an attempt to establish a new industry standard architecture based around POWER, not just for Apple, although Apple was the main (only?) large non-ibm adopter. There were three versions, Prep, Chrp and most recently PAPR which was...

Yeah, true, nice on paper, but don't forget that AIM alliance also had OpenDoc, which was also killed by Jobs when he returned to Apple.

Well, that's more Job's fault when he snuffed all Mac clones (and bought out Power Computing) before G3 and OS 8. Since, Apple was singe consumer that was buying PowerPC CPUs from Motorola, and soon because of laptops they switched to Intel -...

That's true, Sun released OpenWindows in '89, but I was talking about v 3.3 ('93), which dropped the support for NeWS and its non-standard extensions to PostScript, replacing it with licensed DPS.

That's true, Sun released OpenWindows in '89, but I was talking about v 3.3 ('93), which dropped the support for NeWS and its non-standard extensions to PostScript, replacing it with licensed DPS.

Pretty sure that OpenWindows was earlier than 1993.

Pretty sure that OpenWindows was earlier than 1993.

I would like to have seen where Sun would take their SRSS / SunRay / X11 system. Yes, it wasn't perfect but what I see currently used today in enterprise deployments such as the NHS and parts of the MoD ain't better more than a decade later.

I'm even more sorry that Sun give up on their NeWS - PostScript Display tech which was later resurrected (but not related to Sun tech) in the NeXT Display PostScript and then evolved into Quartz 2D in OS X. (BTW, DEC also licensed Display...

bakul - yes, :D the directory name was unintentional but... surprisingly apt. # truss -o ocd-data-delete-2.txt rm -rvx ocd-data/ is rolling right along, it seems. While the output file has grown too long to tail -f ..., lc shows the file is...

This is a slightly different screenshot, being my X201 using mpv to play a youtube Astrum movie fullscreen about the Vera Rubin telescope - this one. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4cpaDZ68g The two round things near the front on...

Please, allow me to repeat what I said, for all Amiga/Atari enthusiasts (that are still alive 😈). IMHO the best solution today is:

And the 4000T with its '060 is even faster than the 4000/040. (A small amount of 4000Ts were released with an '040, but the 040 models are so extremely rare they basically don't exist.)

I would like to have seen where Sun would take their SRSS / SunRay / X11 system. Yes, it wasn't perfect but what I see currently used today in enterprise deployments such as the NHS and parts of the MoD ain't better more than a decade later.

Indeed, including the publicly known jfs (sometimes called jfs2), which ships as part of AIX. And then GPFS (now known as Spectrum Scale), SanFS (previously known as StorageTank), Seastar/Squid (publicly known as Shark), and I forgot a few other...

Quote by Robert Jordan, "The Path of Daggers":

MCST made / make the russian Elbrus line of sparc chips... not sure how easy it is to buy a development board with one of these chips on it nowadays! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus-8S http://elbrus.ru/arhitektura_sparc...

I was just reading about MCST today – I was under wrong impression that they based Elbrus on Vrlogs that I mentioned, but Elbrus 2000 arch predates open sourcing of T1/T2 for a number of years, so I guess they must have some licensing deal with...

This is a slightly different screenshot, being my X201 using mpv to play a youtube Astrum movie fullscreen about the Vera Rubin telescope - this one. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4cpaDZ68g The two round things near the front on...

here the eastern block/domestic clones were officially sold only to institutions (education/companies/etc). they were hugely expensive even considering the black market currency rates (which were an order of magnitude higher than the official...

This is a slightly different screenshot, being my X201 using mpv to play a youtube Astrum movie fullscreen about the Vera Rubin telescope - this one. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4cpaDZ68g The two round things near the front on...

No, I would not start it under ktrace. I would start rm plain and then attach `truss -p <pid>` for a while.

No, I would not start it under ktrace. I would start rm plain and then attach `truss -p <pid>` for a while.

Rebooted to single-user mode I can start a rm -rf ocd-data/, but I'm not quite sure how to proceed with ktrace. Does this look right: # ktrace -i rm -rf ocd-data/? Based on the ktrace man page that seems like a good start, but if there's a...

While rm is running you should attach truss to it to see whether it removes any files at all. If so you can just chip away piece by piece.

No new files have been written to this directory for a long while. I am interested in how/why ZFS is broken, but I'll readily confess that I may lack the skills to debug completely. This was a data processing project - I would definitely...