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And if you can, consider installing a UPS. Even the most basic ones will give you enough time to save whatever you're currently working on, shut down the machine properly and some more. They will also protect you from power surges.

When op clarified "loudness or muteness of the source" that precludes "kernel event trapping" and moved into the realm of DSP programming and pattern filtering of PCM data. loudness of a PCM signal is directly related to the amplitude of the PCM...

Consider these styles for a single source file program. Form 1 void A(int x, int y); int B(float x); int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) { A(1, 2); return B(3.f); } void A(int x, int y) { // some code goes here. } int B(float...

I prefer form 3 as well, but to each their own. There are people who can't look at their code without getting mad if functions are not sorted alphabetically (for binary search). Others who just love to have references in a legible list and see no...

This project is available https://www.crowdsupply.com/leetronics/infinite-noise-trng and supposedly has open source software which works on FreeBSD...

Danny Collins was fun Jay Kelly was the best

By Drew Gallatin, reproduced with permission. In Memoriam: Kenneth N. Smith I recently found out that Ken Smith (kensmith) recently passed away. Ken was on the RE team for many years, and was the lead RE for several releases around the...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/freebsd-linux-review/

BSD-3-Clause for most projects. Use Apache 2.0 when patent rights are a potential concern or when accepting contributions that may include patentable work.

Decades ago, Byte magazine had an article on building a noise generator that fed into a computer for giving a random number. Someone can search for that. Probably before 2000 but not sure. Another article I read where the time it took between...

How can I install and play Warcraft 3 Trozen Throne in a vm or emulator on FreeBSD? It needs an old Nvidia driver and DirectX 9. Extra nice would be if a method exists that can be reproduced without needing something proprietary. It's like 25...

POSIX.1 sorry, but I disagree. If someone is new, they may not realize what to look for. In my arrogant opinion, each case is different.

3D graphics work on FreeBSD. It is compute on GPUs for NVidia hardware (CUDA) that is a problem.

I have PXE running on servers, but how do I configure the in-bhyve dhcp server? What exactly is it built into?

I think it has a commercial problem. If your prompt-service actually provides constructive information that has a market value, you're giving away profit.

That sure is possible in bhyve (example options: 34.10.1. Setting Up the PXE Environment, 34.10.2. Configuring the DHCP Server ). I was able to run a PXE / dhcp server and clients, but since sysutils/edk2 (amd64) was upgraded [1] from version...

That sure is possible in bhyve (example options: 34.10.1. Setting Up the PXE Environment, 34.10.2. Configuring the DHCP Server ). I was able to run a PXE / dhcp server and clients, but since sysutils/edk2 (amd64) was upgraded [1] from version...

Wait, did you fix the source url? I was preparing to try this but it works again. 😆

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Everything works except 3d accellerated graphics. Gamers should cancel it. We just need fast enough computers to do the same.

And if you can, consider installing a UPS. Even the most basic ones will give you enough time to save whatever you're currently working on, shut down the machine properly and some more. They will also protect you from power surges.

Today I had some time available and tried again to solve the boot problem. Finally I was able to create an sdcard to automatically boot from a different drive.So it will boot from the sdcard as USB (as drive C) and during boot stage 2 (boot2) it...

Form 3 glitches to xml code tags for some reason, in my Firefox. Is this thing injection proof? 😆

Hi all, I just started using sysutils/iocage to manage my jails. So far so good, networking is fine, I get an IPv4 and IPv6 address, I can resolve DNS queries with a local_unbound service on my host, everyone's happy. However, running jails that...

Please remove those, in particular if_iwm0_load=YES". According to the attached image you provided, the PCI wifi device is a Intel Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] (PCI vendor/device ID 8086:9df0). This adapter apparently requires the...

POSIX.1 already said, but but to slightly elaborate, you can run, for example wpa -ddd -i <interfacename> -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf For example: wpa -ddd -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf The extra d's give you more debugging...

Technically, if a machine has ever booted Windows with malware you cannot use it for secure computing under any OS ever again. There are way too many places to compromise firmware in a modern computer.

Why buy new RAM when billions of PCs are being decommissioned due to Windows 11 requirements? I recently purchased four HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Minis, each equipped with a 7th-gen Intel Core i5-7500, 16 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB SSD for $100 USD total...

ASN.1 is a real pain to program for, though. As most Telekom formats.

SOAP looks complicated - like it was designed by committee. However, there are code generators that turn a SOAP schema into classes in your language of choice. REST started as one person's idea that became refined over time. It was easier to...

That's still no reason to post AI slop on a forum. And we will see how many of the maintainers of the affected software will agree that these bug reports are valuable.

One thing that FreeBSD has over any other OS, as you can see, is a passionate community eager to help. That's for sure.

Before even thinking of installing FreeBSD you should check if it can run on your hardware: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/hardware/ FreeBSD is not good with the latest notebooks. Expect loss of functionality.

Well, the member of this forum obviously think FreeBSD is good. Libreoffice and Youtube aren't a problem.

There are many things to try to exclude possible causes. Power-off still doesn't work without anything except / mounted? This means it's not a storage device having trouble. What happens after the physical shutdown button? In case no power-off...

The fix has been committed, so very soon we should all be able to install tint2 by pkg on CURRENT.

Hi everybody 👋 I'm just getting serious about switching to FreeBSD. :) It's funny, it doesn't feel like I chose it as much as my path led here. It just makes sense for me to move to FreeBSD. It's not my first experience with FreeBSD either. I...

I am aware, I didn't realize your rant-y post was about signing up; I thought you ranted about posting bugs via email. My mistake. Also, my comment was not aimed at you specifically, it was aimed at any reader of this thread that might think that...

Benny Siegert, a well known NetBSD developer, gives some reasons why in his opinion Rust will never make it into the NetBSD kernel: First of all: I’m not so sure that Rust in the kernel would have been chosen to cater to a younger developer...

A very safe solution is to install FreeBSD to a USB stick and boot from it. This will be slow at first but if you also have access to a fast disk parttion, you can move things to it and limit access to the storage on the original bootdevice to...

Windows can access the FreeBSD disk. But if the FreeBSD filesystem is encrypted at rest it would be annoying to get into that. You'd have to manipulate the FreeBSD OS to log the key for the encrypted filesystem somewhere. This is not what...

Hi T-Daemon Thank you for your reply. That's clear now: What I did is: make buildkernel pkg unregister FreeBSD-kernel-generic-15.0 make installkernel DESTDIR=/ Thank you very much. Regards, Cédric

There are many things to try to exclude possible causes. Power-off still doesn't work without anything except / mounted? This means it's not a storage device having trouble. What happens after the physical shutdown button? In case no power-off...

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Why buy new RAM when billions of PCs are being decommissioned due to Windows 11 requirements? I recently purchased four HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Minis, each equipped with a 7th-gen Intel Core i5-7500, 16 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB SSD for $100 USD total...

To put a distinction out there, the command line or terminal does not imply CLI. It may as well be TUI and automagical. Consider somebody just copy pasting what the website told him, into a terminal and hit enter - a shiny colorful script loads...

A lot of that is because people have gotten used to GUI tools that do the same job in a far less efficient way, or don't do everything and then just accept that it can't be done if the tool doesn't allow it. I've been using computers since the...

I wish I was only 53! ;)

ASN.1 is a real pain to program for, though. As most Telekom formats.