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I was going through some of my posts and stumbled upon this one. It has been an interesting year, I'm still on the same team, things are ok, at least I have a stream of work. The team is not well organized, so the backlog refinement doesn't...

Ken Thompson Recalls Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins.

hardworkingnewbie That's disgusting. I want one. Until recently, I did all the cooking at home. I always separate eggs with my hands. Using a shell there's too much risk of puncturing the yolk. Happily, I'm taking cooking up again in January.

That's literally a crap PC.

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That is why I wrote that LISP, the second oldest high level programming language, was the first.

Who said that? I certainly didn't say that or even imply it. UFS is sufficient on its own like EXT4 is sufficient on its own. Just as Sun used VxVM and Disksuite, just as Linux and HP/UX use LVM, just as FreeBSD once had a VxVM clone, we now...

The certbot periodic scripts (the ones that I looked at) are very specific to certbot/Let's Encrypt and not really adaptable. One I found that seemed useful comes from the port filesystems/zrepl The (pre-installation source) script can be found...

Who said that? I certainly didn't say that or even imply it. UFS is sufficient on its own like EXT4 is sufficient on its own. Just as Sun used VxVM and Disksuite, just as Linux and HP/UX use LVM, just as FreeBSD once had a VxVM clone, we now...

The bank refunded me the money that was stolen.

Anyone connected via your wifi router to the internet can connect directly to the streaming service. They won't be accessing it through 4G/LTE/5G (so no data fees). There's no need to "restream" it. Your wifi router's internet connection has to...

https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU

I was going for a standard FreeBSD install with ZFS vs. UFS. With a standard ZFS install it's really easy to add a new, separate, dataset/filesystem. If you have an UFS system you're going to need to re-do the partitioning (shrinking is not...

I don't think FORTRAN had reference counting, not even today. Reason being, back then, FORTRAN did not even have memory management.

If you read a book about Design Patterns, like the famous "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", it will show you how complex/real problems are solved using OOP. Also knowing Design by Contracts (DbC) is very...

LISP was sure the first doing that: FORTRAN 1957, LISP 1958, ALGOL and COBOL 1959, ....

No, object-oriented programming isn't really a big advantage. Joel Spolsky (founder of Stack Overflow) said it perfectly: "A lot of us thought in the 1990s that the big battle would be between procedural and object oriented programming, and we...

If you read a book about Design Patterns, like the famous "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", it will show you how complex/real problems are solved using OOP. Also knowing Design by Contracts (DbC) is very...

I'd say ZFS is 'easier' to use. No need for partitioning, formatting a filesystem, mounting, etc. It does all that through a couple of simple commands. Now, when you get to how it actually works, 'under the hood' as they say, then yes, ZFS is...

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Build went fine on 15.0-BETA3 GENERIC, and I don't see any modification to lz4_zfs.c in the latest zfs merge.

Mr. Sneezy Egg Separator, because it looks so fascinating and is so easy to use.

Then maybe you can consider to fly in one of the eastern European countries to fix you're teeth. It will be way more cheaper...

I'm not a zfs expert but I think the check for errors is done automatically (somehow). zpool-scrub repair stuff, so it doesn't make sense to import in read-only mode. EDIT: It also probably wants to write metadata to the pool...

Kernel modules for nvidia GPUs other than nvidia-drm.ko is installed by x11/nvidia-kmod and its variants (-304, -340, -390, -470 or -devel) now. These were included in corresponding x11/nvidia-driver ports before, but splitted out to allow kmod...

I should perhaps have stated the obvious, well, obvious to anyone with at least some sysadmin experience. When you mess around with filesystems and mounts, make sure to STOP the service that's using the filesystem and/or mount. When you zfs...

@vienuolis The idea behind this canmont=off for /var and /usr goes like that: The /var and /usr datasets data/files are in the BE - in the zroot/ROOT/default BE that is created at installer - and the rest like these: zroot/tmp zroot/usr/home...

Yep, that's very likely the reason.

I suspect that the data is still there, but hidden by your new mount mapping ... You've created new ZFS fs's (in ZFS: datasets): did you copymove the corresponding data to the new dataset before the new mount became active? To compare this to...

Okay, under "Weird-looking" I dare to throw something really weird looking into the pool. When you need more drives than your case can handle, you can either buy a new case, or just create more slots: 9 HDDs (the other 4 are in the default...

scottro had it mostly right. The Forums started out not only because other forums failed or went away, but also because people at FreeBSD felt it needed its own community support beyond the mailing lists. This was at a time when mailing lists...

This is because UEFI doesn't have legacy (including VGA and VESA) framebuffers by default and having their own ones instead (accessed via GOP service) and it grabs actual video hardwares, thus, VESA cannot grab it. x11-drivers/xf86-video-scfb...

Another favorite kitchen gadget: an old fashioned Mouli cheese grater. I use it for chopping up green chillies & garlic (used in a lot of Indian recipes)!

dmesg from my Broadwell system CPU microcode: updated from 0xb00002e to 0xb000040 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz (2200.11-MHz K8-class CPU) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 44 CPUs

Some vulnerabilities can be mitigated via tunable and/or sysctls. I have below in my /boot/loader.conf ## Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation ## Set 0 to enable. hw.ibrs_disable=0 ## Select 0 to 3 for TAA mitigation mode. ## 0: No...

Yes, but you could look at their scripts and get some inspiration on how to implement something suitable for your situation.

Just recently, I came across a Cooler Master gaming PC that looks like a gym shoe, complete with shock springs that would not look out of place on a motorcycle: All the necessary plugs (USB, power, HDMI/DP, etc) are in the back. Link here. No...

Yes, essentially zroot/var is a place holder, it's not mounted so it's actually part of the BE. That place holder just makes it easier to create zroot/var/mail for example and have it 'automagically' assume it should have /var/mail/ as its...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The FreeBSD Foundation is excited to welcome the community to the 2025 FreeBSD Vendor Summit, taking place November 6–7, 2025 at NetApp Headquarters in San Jose, California. The Vendor Summit...

doesn't look weird to me, in fact it looks lowkey genius xd

Okay, under "Weird-looking" I dare to throw something really weird looking into the pool. When you need more drives than your case can handle, you can either buy a new case, or just create more slots: 9 HDDs (the other 4 are in the default...

😁 It didn't get much better than this. Even now, the ZX81 is a design and implementation masterpiece; an entire working micro with keyboard, beeper, TV display graphics, mass storage interface, expansion port and ROM BASIC in only 4 chips, in...

Was it this? That was my first computer! It had Windows 98 SE and Intel graphics (810 or 845). My friend had a SiS 620 computer that ran Crimsonland better and I tried just changing the driver under Device Manager to it 😆 Local repair shop...

Yes, and yes. But py-certbot only knows about Let's Encrypt certs, unless I'm missing something? openssl-x509(1) also has: -enddate Prints out the expiry date of the certificate, that is the notAfter date. and...

No, some vulnerabilities don't have microcode fixes but need kernel workarounds instead.

Yeah, it has absolutely nothing to do with "Installation and maintenance of ports and packages" where you posted it. You also don't appear to be building a new port for it, so "Porting new software" also doesn't apply. This is the most...

It is not clear to me whether this complains about a lack of a mitigation in: - the BIOS-loaded microcode - microcode loaded by the FreeBSD kernel - mitigation in the FreeBSD kernel - mitigation in the VM's Linux kernel

scottro had it mostly right. The Forums started out not only because other forums failed or went away, but also because people at FreeBSD felt it needed its own community support beyond the mailing lists. This was at a time when mailing lists...

Microcode has been a thing since the 1960's. All IBM 360s, except for the Model 44, used microcode. I also recall working at a site which had IBM 3033 processors (post IBM 370). The microcode was buggy so IBM produced microcode logic manuals...

Using jails for isolation: https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/pull/1286