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windows printer driver require that the driver implements at minimum BitBlt (or maybe StrechBlt / can't really remember). all unimplemented graphics primitives like lines, arcs, text,etc are supplied by GDI itself and GDI then sends a bitmap to...

Oh, never know that! As far as I know, legacy (non-laser) line printers had font "belt" or "drum" and a line is completed to be printed oncd the belt or drum rotate once, with impacters aligned per all character positions and hits when required...

People are mostly aware of (now obsolete) chain printers like IBM 1403 and drum printers like Dataproducts 2230 (link to PDF). They could print only characters, sorta like daisy wheel. Line matrix are different, Wikipedia page has nice...

There's a 14 page thread: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-hosting-shared-vps-etc.21472/

stty -a ^O is discard output send it again and will come back

It this perhaps with a specific terminal? The only "freezes" you might get are normally with CTRL-S and CTRL-Q, as they send Xoff/Xon (Software flow control). Perhaps CTRL-O has a meaning for the specific terminal you're using? Or maybe it's...

Covacat said "speculation: x86 will be eventually kicked out of everything. the "windows [gaming] pc" will be the last to move to arm/riscv/whatever." I think it will be a sad day if that happens, if it means a return to closed architectures. I...

Maybe realize that ALPHA2 is made from stable/15, which is a supported version.

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It's not. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ghostbsd-pfsense-truenas-and-all-other-freebsd-derivatives.7290/ An educated guess, MTU or PMTUD issues.

Just informational, the -ALPHA builds are done from the stable/15 branch.

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Original article here. Consider this when replying. The third ALPHA build for the FreeBSD 15.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, and powerpc64le architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites. Continue...

Modern line matrix printers like Printronix P8000 Plus, especially P8C20 are perfectly capable of printing PDF & PS (and few other standard industry formats) at 120x144 dpi, at max 2000lpm while cost per page if 1/5 of laser output, and they come...

After reading the linked howto, a question rises: Why create a so called "extra protection" in form of a geli key file (besides a second user key, in form of a passphrase), and store that key file on the same hard disk, on an un-encrypted...

awk & sed are fine for handling CSV-like data in tabular formats, but it's not for XML, JSON or YAML where you need a more powerful scripting language like Python or Perl.

Had SUN spun off their SPARC division into a separate company and added support for AMD64 too; they'd probably still be here. As good as SPARC was at the time (or still is?); the Linux/AMD64 alternative was much cheaper and more accessible. It...

I guess that same could be said about DEC Alpha&VMS. AFAIR reading about them, Alpha outperformed SPARC (but not in multithread), and they sold to Compaq just as dot-com bubble started to inflate rapidly. Probably they didn't see potential in...

Hm, that should be unlikely. With -exec rm you fork and execute the rm binary for every single file, shared library dynamic linking and all. With xarg you only fork and exec once per xarg group. Edge cases exist. If the is only one file to...

Thanks for the info, this totally makes sense 👍 I do love using xargs for all kind of things, but what I said was based on impression, I never did benchmark on one or the other. As I said:

Hm, that should be unlikely. With -exec rm you fork and execute the rm binary for every single file, shared library dynamic linking and all. With xarg you only fork and exec once per xarg group. Edge cases exist. If the is only one file to...

I always liked 2nd solution (with -exec rm) better, in my experience it works faster than | xargs rm. But I never had case like OP CanOfBees has, so I stayed quiet and let professionals come up with solution.

What I'd try in such a situation would be, if the filesystem is ZFS and having a plenty of snapshots, destroy now-unneeded and large snapshot to allow ZFS to work faster, then, run any of below. find -X -type f the-directory-to-be-deleted -name...

I started using Ghostscript in the early '90s to be able to "proper" print on then new Winprinter lasers, which didn't have much of (if any) processing in them, everything was rendered on Win PC by the driver and then processed bitmap sent to the...

Ah, I mean, sending data "directly" via Centronix pararrel interface without any filters like ghostscript and/or print servers which can convert inputs to the actual printing language the printer understands. With ghostscript, it would work.

AFAIK, Sun was first who used PostScript to render everting on the screen in their NeWS (Network extensible Window System), from Oct '86. SGI had NeWS port named 4Sight in IRIX 3.0 from '88. Few other independent companies made ports for other...

They can, with a little hep - that's what's Ghostscript is for. gs -sDEVICE=escp -sOutputFile=output.prn input.pdf One can even throw in resolution of their printer with adding -r240x72 or whatever actual res is for the printer we want to...

AFAIK, Sun was first who used PostScript to render everting on the screen in their NeWS (Network extensible Window System), from Oct '86. SGI had NeWS port named 4Sight in IRIX 3.0 from '88. Few other independent companies made ports for other...

You might have better success with a laptop with a hardwired dGPU (can't switch between integrated GPU and dGPU).

Yes, OS X of course. Also NeXTStep had display postscript as technology, which was pretty great for its time.

Just ran pkg upgrade on a VM running Alpha 2 and it's now alpha 3. ISO's are in snapshots on the ftp site.

Why would anyone put a space in a filename? The FreeBSD tree has one since a few weeks ago.

You mostly need the -print0 construct for filenames with spaces, as otherwise word splitting will strike (by default, you can change IFS). And yes, filenames can contain newlines.

we are constantly being accosted by this entity

FreeSBIE ( now defunct, last release - 2007 ), DistroWatch still keeps a page available:

Code. Changes. Code review. Merges. Fun stuff. Some people look at code review and merging as "I have the power to say no, just because word is misspelled". Others look at the technical aspect of the change: Is it correct, does it fix the...

I think that's the way business used to be (simply because a business prime directive is profit by legal means. Picking a political side means you don't want money from half the customers); a problem is when politics dictate what products are...

Just like Linux.

I think that's the way business used to be (simply because a business prime directive is profit by legal means. Picking a political side means you don't want money from half the customers); a problem is when politics dictate what products are...

In many ways, this might make a proper port to Windows feasible. Assuming they replace the Perl cruft with Rust rather than just adding more shite into it. Currently the Windows ports needs Cygwin/msys2 to function which is gross. Game Of Trees...

FreeSBIE ( now defunct, last release - 2007 ), DistroWatch still keeps a page available:

FreeSBIE ( now defunct, last release - 2007 ), DistroWatch still keeps a page available:

Alpine Linux is also working on Wayback, that will, in theory, allow you to run X stuff, including window managers, on Wayland. I've not really been keeping up with it as there's no need yet, but I think that they've got it working as well...

Frenzy BSD - Ukrainian made LiveCD based on FreeBSD. Last version from 2012 was based on FreeBSD 8.3

Yeah, prior to that, I had one inkjet for color and scanning and a B&W laser. The HP inkejet, of course, when we didn't use the printing for awhile clogged up. I wound up giving them both to a co-worker who enjoys fixing that sort of stuff, he...

Complicated. Tried it to write a Java quality of life plugin for Minecraft. Your own reflexes to own the code and structure it how you want kicks, my conversation tended to be like with an intern, to explain to the model antipatterns. Still...

I try to use sometimes a GPT model to request configuration to see what they could bring and the quality of the output. ChatGPT can nowadays write FreeBDS correct configuration for things like: log rotation with newsyslog rc service pf...

Probably best to target jails if you're the solution author. You can get a behavior similar to Dockerfile by starting with a base system ZFS snapshot and a .sh script to run the commands to deploy your software on it. Also, if you're using C and...

Frenzy BSD - Ukrainian made LiveCD based on FreeBSD. Last version from 2012 was based on FreeBSD 8.3