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FreeBSD was installed on my work PC (which had an AMD K5 CPU) in 1997. I've loved and used it since, and "maintain" a few ports. How I used to install it: How you know where it ran: I read the book: I'm not shy about promotion (but...

GPT and physics, mhmmm. Single-minus gluon tree amplitudes are nonzero

I asked atop people to fix atop for us, the top of the food chain people (aka FreeBSD users), and they fixed it. FreeBSD shows turbo frequency on Intel as .001 increment from the top max frequency, and atop had only two digits of precision. It'll...

Firstly he shut it down in the Ukraine costing them valuable momentum aiding his Russian buddies then now for some reason he has turned on the Russian cutting them off finally. No politics involved just them pesky things called facts...

bold of you to assume we wear underwear

Well, there are two sides there. You call them his "Russian buddies" but forgetting that he was helping the Russian enemies at the time.

Hence, you wanted me to give alternatives of painting and audio software although I do not paint and do audio with the computer? May I conclude that you are that kind of people that give advice about things he does not know.

No because they didn't exist. Even at Silicon Graphics, where I worked then on graphical software in C on a Unix system, it was text all the way through until the output. Sure we had a window to display the final result but that was only the...

W. Richard Stevens wrote all his books in exactly this way

There are many tools to measure - but the pattern stays the same.

No, I believe you're all using Unix Workstation terminology wrong. It is not an Unix box. Workstation per wiki : When they say technical or scientific, they do not mean computer science only, but other things computer can aid in - hence the...

I was never talking about development or systems work. I was talking about application software usage. That is an awesome argument. What you need those shoes for? You don't need shoes because I never wear them.

Before Covid, when I worked in an office, a Windows/Linux using co-worker used to say that even if he had access to my computer, he wouldn't know what to do. I ran FreeBSD with dwm. I usually, sorta out of habit, had a desktop image. but with...

Install OPENCODE. They have different Tier 1 model every month or so for FREE (some throttling is present tho). Now, I believe, it is the Big Pickle - anonymous, so probably Chinese beast of a model. I gave it really lousy prompt, told it to set...

I do agree it isn't personal but for a different reason. We have police and road traffic officers and they tend to not to be that bothered by the dangers of speeding itself (we commonly have dual carriageways at 40mph and motorways at 50mph for...

I didn't notice anyone else mentioning it, but doing software QA under contract might be an option for you. Errare humanum est and nobody errares more than software engineers and programmers because everyone works to the project rather than the...

Yes, I don't argue that Windows isn't the best operating system. But for me personally, having multiple operating systems means more software development contracts. I don't have a favorite operating system. I use operating systems only to make...

I started working, after high school, in firmware (industry automation) on a similar Mostek Macro 80 (not a real one, handmade) with 2 8" floppies an 5" monochrome (green) CRT. In that company there was two bosses, the secretary and I, one boss...

I agree. Perhaps there's innovative technology underneath all this. But I still don't understand why they call something like Droplet a "virtual machine." :) Due to the nature of my work, I often encounter different technologies and vendors. I...

serjsk8, it's easy to look at those names and blame marketing, but there are other components, too. I suspect there may be additional contributing forces. Quite often in large and small companies, projects develop pet names or handles that the...

Hello jwillia3, An interesting observation. I may agree with you on many points.

Prior to buying a used Sun 3/50 (my first graphics workstation with a whopping 4Megabytes of RAM) in 1989, I did plenty of UNIX work: inside the kernel, drivers, file system, utilities, networking, applications etc. and got paid handsomely. Even...

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/323/

It would be nice to be able to download your personal data including your own content from FreeBSD forums ;)

Google chat has an API. It is documented. There are client libraries for several languages. No need to even go to duck duck go, the Google search engine finds it just as well. EDIT: You can also download your personal data from Google using...

Prior to buying a used Sun 3/50 (my first graphics workstation with a whopping 4Megabytes of RAM) in 1989, I did plenty of UNIX work: inside the kernel, drivers, file system, utilities, networking, applications etc. and got paid handsomely. Even...

more like clownflare amirite

Cloudflare made some changes: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-one-in-2026-product-name-updates/891403

Yes, I don't argue that Windows isn't the best operating system. But for me personally, having multiple operating systems means more software development contracts. I don't have a favorite operating system. I use operating systems only to make...

Yes, I haven't messed around with it a lot, but my initial look at it was promising.

I made a literal general brainf*ck transpiler 'lgbt.py'. it converts brainf*ck source to Python,C,and the other languages with map, header, tailor file. Python, C, Ook's files are provided in the repository. Indents automatically. The name 'lgbt'...

Give me access to that computer for a few days :p W11 also has a new native NVMe mode that might be interesting...

Meh. I talk to them as a person and don't consider anything else. The worst that can happen is I'll get a ticket which I would deserve anyway. A cop said he was sitting at the top of a hill and saw me pull into the street. There were five stop...

that's fantastic, 10/10

X Link (from Reddit) Reddit mentions Discord too but apparently they don't use Persona currently.

I made a literal general brainf*ck transpiler 'lgbt.py'. it converts brainf*ck source to Python,C,and the other languages with map, header, tailor file. Python, C, Ook's files are provided in the repository. Indents automatically. The name 'lgbt'...

I think there are 2 factors that impact this debate; how well an out of the box DE works for you and how much setup time do you want to invest? When I try gnome, I'm impressed with how well the applications are integrated out of the box. The...

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/323/

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/323/

bold of you to assume we wear underwear

How does one loose a tarot card? Sounds ominous. I'm asking for a friend.

Strong agree. No answer you can give will help you. For example, in the case of speed: 1) You say you were knowingly speeding = bad 2) You say that you had no idea what speed you were going, thus not in control of the vehicle = bad 3) You state...

Cloudflare made some changes: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-one-in-2026-product-name-updates/891403

I think there are 2 factors that impact this debate; how well an out of the box DE works for you and how much setup time do you want to invest? When I try gnome, I'm impressed with how well the applications are integrated out of the box. The...

a lot of people believe their personal preferences are equivalent to morality and if you don't like the same things they do, you're a bad person. this explains a lot about many people's behavior.

I'm at the point where I don't care. Neither should you. They have their opinion and have points that are probably correct but you have your opinions which are true, too. Those who try and tear you down for your opinions without giving solid...

Not sure how realistically viable it is, but if companies can scrape websites for their AI machines, I'd try that with a local AI machine (I like the idea of Meta straight-up pirating books :p)

In Australia, I use a 4G cellular mobile data service. 200GB/mo for about US$30/mo. Download speed is variable, usually ranging from 1MB/sec to 6MB/sec. I don't upload. I can watch high definition video on YouTube most of the time. However...

There are many tools to measure - but the pattern stays the same.

There are many tools to measure - but the pattern stays the same.