Latest activity

vulpine Define "it" and no it doesn't.

For the past 14 years, I’ve been teaching myself how to build a GUI toolkit in C++. My dream has always been to be the first to bring a bsd licensed gui toolkit and desktop environment to freebsd built from scratch. I was even featured on...

Backup is important, but having some method of identifying corruption is also important. It's the main reason that I like ZFS as scrubbing it can identify the damage, and if it's a redundant set up repair it. Otherwise, I'll use par2 to create...

For the past 14 years, I’ve been teaching myself how to build a GUI toolkit in C++. My dream has always been to be the first to bring a bsd licensed gui toolkit and desktop environment to freebsd built from scratch. I was even featured on...

For the past 14 years, I’ve been teaching myself how to build a GUI toolkit in C++. My dream has always been to be the first to bring a bsd licensed gui toolkit and desktop environment to freebsd built from scratch. I was even featured on...

Yes, IIRC, I've had Win XP running in both VBox and Qemu. I haven't gotten around to trying it under Bhyve. As long as the VM shows something that the OS thinks is a video card compatible of displaying the output, things should be fine.

one of our college elders was a fan of XML and XML schema and thus XSLT. We once called it "cactus-fucking haskell" (because of all the pointy brackets) to his face and he thought that was hilarious.

It most definitely does work - for decades. Understand that was a toy example. Your concern of schema lock-in is valid but a loose schema can also be a problem. Enforcing a schema is the first line of defense against mal-formed data. Someone's...

Ah! A sister from another mother.

Regarding your first observation. The Foundation has around 20 contractors with expertise in specific areas that fill critical gaps that volunteers aren't able to fill. So, you'll see in the pie chart on the budget page that over 66% (going by...

xslt... /me reaches for the crucifix.

That's why I don't like JSON. It's not that there's anything inherently wrong with JSON, it's that it's not intended to be used the way that I was using it and something else would likely make more sense. I'll probably eventually go back and...

I also prefer SGML for that reason. But more difficult to parse. JSON is nice concise, it can be the value of a column in sqlite3 and there are sqlite3 functions to deal with it: https://sqlite.org/json1.html

xslt must the most screwed up programming language that isn't intended to be satire.

Trying mate

Niri, drop down terminal, system info with sxmo-wayout.

All Is Well; The Future Is Bright I don't think there's any problem, but I might be wrong. I also don't think it's of any use to have this kind of discussion, because everyone thinks what they think and people rarely change their mind, but...

I would have to disagree with you here. If new users are not attracted, eventually FreeBSD will die. Similarly providing an easier path, including a decent desktop env., to new users does not take away anything from FreeBSD's current use. For...

So you are putting field data inside the <Company> element for different companies that are described in the attributes? That might work but I'd be concerned that the attributes might lock you in somehow later on.

xslt must the most screwed up programming language that isn't intended to be satire.

Yeah I really struggled with that back in the day.

According the data sheet I downloaded from Seagate, the 1 terabyte Barracuda is supposed to be CMR.

If all else fails you can attach a debugger. Just follow the guide for kernel debugging a guest kernel in bhyve. If you use the -G port (as opposed to a serial port) you actually debug the virtual machine. You should be able to Control-C inside...

xslt... /me reaches for the crucifix.

You have two different things going on there. The first says "this element contains information about a company". The second is an element with attributes that describe the element. So they're not the same thing

Original article here. Consider this when replying. FreeBSD, The FreeBSD Foundation, and The FreeBSD Forums are not associated with the content of this article.

Quite often I see decisions around creating XML schemas that involve the same mistake repeated over and over. The persons making the decisions seem to have forgotten that XML supports attributes and that you express data in those attributes...

Funnily enough I did have a B580 card laying around, but I was missing a machine to put it into. So a week or two ago I ordered the machine, recently put it together, and today install FreeBSD 15.0-release on it, and upgraded to 15.0-release-p2...

What I mean is that graphical user interfaces should be able to resize, scale, move or any other adjustment without it taking time, like any other graphical application. Try to change the scale of the entire screen of the Xorg-server. You can't...

I take it you're referring to thin jails there as thick jails, from what I can work out, aren't that much different in terms of size and resources from podman or docker containers. I'm still working out how to do it, but from what I've read you...

X11Libre isn't about being "faster than Xorg." It is more likely an actively maintained archive of X11 that we are used to and like. in my understanding Speed is not necessarily an indicator of quality :P

Not only CDE uses rpcbind but legacy NFS (NFSv3) does as well. You can limit what rpcbind listens to in rc.conf. If a person doesn't use the CDE calendar (I don't, I 've used plan for decades) one doesn't need cmsd. Just don't start it...

It was not. The great advantage of Unix in today's world is that it happened to be there at the right time, when PCs became affordable. Although there were operating systems "early enough" with V10 UNIX and – later – Plan 9, which took something...

At our company, we’ve been building and deploying our products inside 13.4 jails. However, since new customer installations are now running on FreeBSD 15, we no longer have access to 13.4 jails. As a result, the 13.4 builds we create on our own...

pkg lock packagename

You are right about techniques how to gain popularity, how to grow customers. And we don't need to argue about that more users are better. No question. But just growing - raise the number of users, only - alone will not do good. Especially not...

Never used any. I got a SGI Indigo for free 20 years ago but it never worked for unknown reason. Now they are rare and expensive. I don't think I'll ever meet a UNIX box for nothing again.

Well, then do something about it. I rented a few KVM. There is fun in it, these things need not be big, they need run their own tunnel mesh, and than can e.g. circumvent bad provider peerings. And they cost three Euro per month. I was...

Ugh... After so much effort, I still have to say I didn't achieve anything! Almost all of my time is spent wrestling with VPNs. The filtering system is extremely complex and multi-layered; almost all VPNs have stopped working. The internet keeps...

Same problem here in Russia, it got stuck at a certain percent of download, and was "stalled". At least my wireguard server still works, so installing wireguard-tools locally helped to mitigate this. Posting this just to report that this happens...

That's because this website (which is not affiliated with the FreeBSD project) has an outdated version. It's currently 1.2.1_1, not 1.1.3_1: https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/spoofdpi-1.2.1_1.pkg If you have access to...

It doesn't make much sense. You can play a fullscreen video or display animated rendered graphics but a 2-dimensional UI zooming in to a part of the screen is a problem. I'm not buying that. I think we have to lose accellerators because they are...

I've been using security/py-fail2ban for some years to scan my mail/postfix-sasl maillog and block offending IPs at my internet-facing pf firewall. I do this because port 25 is often just the first port hit by bots. Recently I noticed that...

For a network aware display system, stability, bandwidth and flexibility could be considered more important than performance. Otherwise 90's DOS-style direct framebuffer access via Wayland compositors is fastest.

Niri, drop down terminal, system info with sxmo-wayout.

This is normal for interfaces that have been set to DHCP.

bokutin, I checked the emails I received when I created the Bugzilla account. They contain a contact email address in case of account problems. Try that contact. "If you have any issues regarding your account, please contact bugmeister@FreeBSD.org."

The behaviour you described is correct and documented in newsyslog: /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d By default each file in this directory ending in '.conf' and not beginning with '.' will be included by the...

Ideally what you should do is create *one* zfs storage pool (eventually a mirror of ada0 and ada1 but you can start with one) and then create zfs filesystems you want with zfs create (man zfs-create). No need to have separate partitions -...