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If you want to boot PC-DOS 2000 off USB you just dump the entire installed image onto USB. You install that image via a VM or emulator. To repeat, you create a virtual PC, backed by HDD image that is of exact size as your USB drive. Then you...

I usually have a situation that I have just installed a port and I immediately want to find an appropriate manual page for it using apropos, but it can't locate it. The reason why is that apropos uses the database generated by makewhatis and...

This doesn't work for rc.conf. Keep in mind that rc.conf is essentially a shell script that only contains variable assignments. += is a syntax error. etcupdate will not and does not touch /etc/rc.conf.

Nice. That is the most primitive way of X forwarding. I use it only for short periods of time. Take care of security, 'xhost +' means allow anyone. Perhaps look at xauth.

Alright, that looks good. Now use it to switch to 1280x720; xrandr -s 1280x720 That should work, just want to rule out issues caused by configuration settings from the various DEs you tried.

I know this. I was following a guide to create a DOS bootable USB stick and that guide uses MS DOS.

Yes, that is exactly what you shouldn't do ;)

Maybe related by my good friend Jeff Geerling who lives 10 minutes from me and I've never met: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ai-is-destroying-open-source/ Actually, I live closer to Wayne Gretzky but now I'm really getting off topic.

You misunderstood me. Of course I do appreciate your program and I made a bookmark to it for the case I need it. Thanks for it. That is what I wanted to say: it is not my workflow. No big plan before beginning coding, but yes, making notes on...

That's EXACTLY what it was! The dual "ifconfig_eth0" lines! I had the 2nd line commented out a few lines after this (omitted). But for some reason I threw it back in there and didn't realize it. The whole point of that line is because I had...

ifconfig_eth0="inet 100.100.100.2 netmask 255.255.255.248" ifconfig_eth0="-rxcsum -txcsum -lro -tso" These two lines seem to be in conflict. The second one is overwriting the first. Perhaps you meant to use += instead of = for the second one...

Greetings, I'm running into a strange issue that I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. The following FreeBSD version is running on my VPS (Virtual Private Server)... [carltonfsck@ssh ~]$ freebsd-version -k 13.5-RELEASE-p9...

I partially turn on AI blinders if I detect too much initial fluff :p

X Files Season 11 Episode 2 is about this topic. :D But what they don't talk about in that episode is writing documentation, sadly.

I think that it means that whatever is to follow is not mediocre. Either it's above average by a significant margin or below average by a significant margin. I'd wager that it's probably somewhat more likely to be above average than below, but...

You're supposed to copy/paste these to a prompt, the # of root's prompt kind of adds a layer of protection, as it's interpreted by the shell as a remark. It prevents accidentally copy/pasting something utterly destructive as root. Think it's...

That's weird, does the system that you're using generally support booting from CD with a USB drive? As far as USB goes, I generally use one of the specialist utilities to put the file on the USB stick. I can't remember last time whether I used...

Really?! 1. Please explain what a FreeBSD loader inferface has to do with legacy BIOS. 2. Even if loader(8) and by exention byhyveloader(8) was to provide a legacy BIOS interface, why would you need it to provide a legacy BIOS interface? Which...

I’m going to put you on ignore bro. The level of paranoia in your messages is setting off a lot of red flags for me.

We don’t really get to choose who we work with because we operate under government contracts and must follow DoD regulations. To work with us, you would need to submit a bid and meet specific requirements the contract typically goes to whoever...

They will probably reject my merge request but I have poked the bear. 🤣 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/-/merge_requests/107/diffs#fb94cd5d91673499b20f51d18b361552fc5a0bd3

Okay.... Here comes the 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-chat-transcripts-lawsuit-privileged-ruling-2026-2 I don't mess with 3rd party AI Labs. 👆👆👆 WE DO LOCAL LLM!!! WE RUN HPC | High Performing Computing !!! WE RUN...

Thanks for the response, but my use would fall under commercial usage.

Now we have the web browser widget working in hml/js and c++ its not perfect but its a start, also this is being shown on fedora because this library is especially hard to get working on FreeBSD.

My point was atax1a is criticizing others work without showing us there's. They look like a hippocrat.

My point was directed at another commenter who is convinced that the us government is going to let Microsoft crash the us economy in the next 12 - 18 month by eliminating 60% of the workforce. Which is absolutely ridicules. I mean we price...

Well some of you completely ignore the aspect of graphical Unix workstation. You can run slim X11 environments booted with startx. I right now do the startx too because I haven't gotten around taking care of sddm yet. Sudo is useless? If you...

McKusick owns the copyright for Beastie and you're free to use it if it's for advocating FreeBSD.

But.. in answer to your original question. man(1) pages were usually hand created using vi(1) and/or emacs(1) or similar back in the day. Of course we just copied (another) existing man(1) page and edited that file into a new man page for our...

TeX or nuffin'.

Hello, I am not new to FreeBSD and I have not migrated from another operating system as reply to OPs question. Well, technically I came to FreeBSD via the ZX Spectrum - Amiga - PC route. The hobbyist route. (Short break here to thank SirDice...

Imo that shouldn't even be a feature on public forums; if you're on the forum you already agree to its contents, and it forum moderators find it fine why self-censor? Afaik someone posting positively about AI one day doesn't necessarily define...

Is or is not? I don't understand. It is on the website of openprinting.org

For some reason, this one always puts me in a good mood. Rod Stewart, featuring The Temptations, The Motown Song. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EzV-S5nXlw

I just quickly installed a GhostBSD VM to see for myself and yes, it does seem as if it only has fcitx with qt5. Any chance of you trying fcitx5? (For those annoyed about this being GhostBSD, it seems the package sets are the same as regular...

Currently the only way to use mozc with textproc/fcitx5 is to use overlay that Ken DEGUCHI is providing and build locally. And if toggling Japanese inputs on non-KDE Qt apps works but not for KDE apps, confirm you're on xorg or xlibre and NOT on...

After installing xfce4-desktop again: # pkg install xfce4-desktop The following happened: There are multiple desktops inside one other, the original xclock and xterm in the background. This time the slim does not work.

Explain what this will do:- cp io.sys msdos.sys command.com /mnt/ I simply don't understand the point. FreeBSD won't see those files AFAICS..

A nice way to install Desktop environments @"Installing a Desktop Environment on FreeBSD", written by FreeBSD Foundation. It looks easy. There are some tools to help to change the desktop environment. In this case it don't help. I was not fixing...

That's why I mentioned the "loaded gun" - kern.geom.debugflags will allow you to do so. This way you can test if ssd's fw is doing this or if kernel has a reason for doing so.

You seem to be sufficiently far along with this to just submitting a PR. Any technical details would be discussed by the individual committer(s) then. This forum is mostly a user support forum so few ports committers are around. Check for open...

I read the link with much interest but couldn't understand these instructions:- My reading is that you create three empty files with names in uppercse because this is crucial and then you proceed to overwrite with names in lower case! I'm...

Well you could just not participate in a forum topic titled "AI for writing documentation"

I come to think following Gtk major versions is not a good thing, as Gnome is going to dispose X11. Forking Gtk3 and maintaining (by someone possible, but unfortunately, not me) it seems to be way to go. Or fork upcoming Gtk5 to adapt again with...

Well you could just not participate in a forum topic titled "AI for writing documentation"

My normal documentation are short, concise commentaries in the source. My programs are for personal use. Your approach is good for someone wanting to spend time documenting manually. But even the AI can be used to get a first draft.

You’re the only one making this personal. I offered a clear challenge, but now you’re backing out. If you’re going to criticize code "human or AI" it’s fair to show your repositories.

Just try it with the script above. With grok, with google, with claude or any other AI engine. Try it as I wrote above before discussing, try it with your own programs. Try it! It is not difficult, only copy and paste, ask for a man page or a README.

Are we talking ai is documenting the code or ai is create a system to document code? Also could you provide a link to your github or gitlab repos?

Who are you? No one here knows you, and you came into our community harassing people. So you wan't to show everyone that your a better coder than ai?