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Update 2: Spent a month trying to see if the graphics stack works on that laptop. That month was spent first on trying to install packages (and failing to start Xorg), and then compiling ports from ground zero. When compiling ports, I turned off...

Population, yes. Land area, no. Those eruptions do add land area. One year, I visited the Isaac Hale black sand beach in Puna area. Came back next year. The beach was sticking out into the ocean a good 20-30 meters further than before, and there...

But it does make one (at least me) wonder "What next"? Is it possible the changes could affect other filesystems (even ones not yet created)? Are the basic filesystem needs public (what used to be known as VFS layer I think)? I think (vague...

Even if it's not directly related to Sun's history, I really enjoy reading your posts. I have to say this forum is a genuine computer enthusiast place 👍

astyle I don't think you got that right. These happen, and they are huge.

Update: After adjusting some routes in the lines above, it seems to be working stably now.

Well, if there is further FlaK you just split the Linux kernel...

Noooo Don't give in. For all we know the delete would work if you execute it on a server with -say- 256 GB RAM. If you don't have a spare computer with that much RAM, there is an easy way to do it. Rent a AWS EC2 machine with 256 GB, export the...

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Noooo Don't give in. For all we know the delete would work if you execute it on a server with -say- 256 GB RAM. If you don't have a spare computer with that much RAM, there is an easy way to do it. Rent a AWS EC2 machine with 256 GB, export the...

Untill that content comes for a visit. Then they call for state help... wait a second, will you? That money was needed elsewhere, but what for? </irony> The fact is that Hawaii is a chain of islands that get smaller with time, and the reason is...

Rob N already worked around the new roadblock. No need to panic for now.

yes.👍

1960-2030.

I find most young people who want to learn programming and computer usage are always looking for an easier way to get around having to do that. Those are the people who want to not learn C, math, science and are always on reddit or Stack Overflow...

1960-2030.

All, thanks again for your patient help! I've possibly learned some new things, and had some old lessons reinforced, with your help. I think I've approached this problem incorrectly - I have been letting the following command run for long...

Hello, I'm trying to get these four software to work together! # freebsd-version 14.3-RELEASE-p2 # pkg install -y xorg # pw groupmod video -m myusername || pw groupmod wheel -m myusername # pkg install -y nvidia-driver # sysrc...

All, thanks again for your patient help! I've possibly learned some new things, and had some old lessons reinforced, with your help. I think I've approached this problem incorrectly - I have been letting the following command run for long...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. New committer: Vladlen Popolitov (doc/ru) Continue reading...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. New committer: Vladlen Popolitov (doc/ru) Continue reading...

I did very little programming on my Atari ST, and far from low-level or demos, all of C I wrote (and I was just starting to learn about C) were routines to prepare text from various word processors coming from PC and ST (and using various...

Ah yes, that was it :cool: Yes I was getting confused remembering the Tandy Z80 boxes. The Dragons were made at a factory in Wales, like the rPi is today. It was a nice machine, lots of ports and a high quality keyboard. The BBC micro was...

Yeah, maybe it looks pretty apocalyptic for someone watching it from the UK. And I agree there is always the clickbait factor, although that channel is usually one of the more respected ones, in fact that is what make me sit up and take notice...

Same.

Yes. For shell scripting there's really only one: /bin/sh

TRS-80 Color Computer, later Tandy Color Computer, or better known as CoCo (also 2 and 3) Not to be confused with TRS-80 Model I/II/III which were Z80 machines. Dragon was very similar, but not entirely compatible, CoCo BASIC needed to be...

I've got 5 static IP's from my ISP, but they are tied to mac addresses in order to obtain them. I'm trying to avoid VM's where I can, in favour of jails, but can't seem to get my assigned IP's when using a jail. I'm currently setting my hw addr...

The 68000 had a lovely logical design, all registers equivalent, much nicer to program than the 8086. My uni lecturers loved it because it was so much easier to use as a teaching tool, and for developing hardware designs. We had quite a few...

If I think that there is even remote possibility that script will be of use to anyone else, only #!/bin/sh, and if I’m certain that no one else will ever see it I could go for #!/usr/bin/env bash, just for arrays.

Yes. For (shell) scripting there's really only one; /bin/sh

Same.

Still, if I'm wrong and ralphbsz is right after all, especially what he says about how the FAANG companies work, then the writing may be on the wall for intel and x86. It's hard to know. Will a world of ARM machines be any better? Or risc-V...

GOALS: REQUIREMENTS: The C language only + a compiler clang only + nothing else !!! No library involved !! clang tcpedit-server -o server clang tcpedit-client -o client RESULTS [DONE]: To make it work, it is needed to disable enter for...

Go take a look at the "Visitor Ratings and Reviews" page over at Distrowatch. I have definitely noticed an uptick in reviews coming from Win 10 users making the switch to Linux. Frequently they are switching to stuff like Fedora or one of the...

Both of my boxen I mentioned are also quite old, but they are working perfectly well. Main desktop is HP Z420, Xeon E5-1650, 32G ECC RAM, GTX 970, few SSDs and USB3 drives. Other one is HP EliteDesk 800 G1, i5-4570, 16G RAM, GT 610 + HD4600...

My Win10 metal is too old and slow, so I must use a VM now - only for software building w/ mingw64 'n testing. On the VM I noticed the ads and all the distractions, just lovely /sarc. Gladly there is cygwin and msys2, so I could stick to my...

That's 9front.

Hahaha, so true!

Go take a look at the "Visitor Ratings and Reviews" page over at Distrowatch. I have definitely noticed an uptick in reviews coming from Win 10 users making the switch to Linux. Frequently they are switching to stuff like Fedora or one of the...

I went from BASIC on Ti99 or something and VIC20 to my own VC64, quickly moving to 6502 assembler. Then came an affordable A500 with 68000 and C - awesome times. I loved the down to the metal control of languages, learning about multithreading...

RiscV is 64bit. Risc is 32bit. I want to see x86 replaced largely by Risc 32bit and Arm 32 bit. I wish the Solaris or Sun name would be sold or given up to those Illuminos projects. Then, I'd like to see a reusable more universal variant of...

Alpha outlived DEC, Compaq was promoting it heavily, it was HP that ditched Alpha for the promise of “glorious and “superior” CPU from Intel, that turned to be a potato, not a CPU. I’m still pissed at HP for killing Alpha as much I’m pissed at...

oo2025 Thank you so much for updates and posting answers from mailing list here as well. The information is extremely valuable and interesting!

sent email to freebsd hackers mailling list. link: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2025-September/005020.html (I'll add/attach/update this forum topic/url, if any reply received to the mailling list url) fingers crossed...

update: freebsd-hackers maillist requested output of top command and fgrep memory output of dmesg.boot. (I sent an reply to maillist but to my luck, my webmail created a mess with encoding issues, so i pasted requested outputs to plain text to...

sorry for the delay of the update. here is the summary of the developments: from the freebsd-hackers maillist : regarding du(1), kldstat(8) question (size diffrence) : and so the text i have copy/paste'd (from google gemini) at my...

RiscV is 64bit. Risc is 32bit. I want to see x86 replaced largely by Risc 32bit and Arm 32 bit. I wish the Solaris or Sun name would be sold or given up to those Illuminos projects. Then, I'd like to see a reusable more universal variant of...

Yes. For (shell) scripting there's really only one; /bin/sh

DEC Alpha was fully supported by NT; MS had to pay ~$100Mil not to be sued, and to promise to maintain NT support for the Alpha processor. MS was forced to do that because Cutler and engineers who previously worked at DEC copied a lot of VMS...