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There are many options to back up your zroot zpool. You may read about zfs send to send a backup to a file to another zpool or zfs dataset but these are only good for off machine or offsite storage. You can use zfs snapshots. The best approach...

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#backup-basics

Amazon's end game is to be the only gig in town, and their whole business model is designed to make that happen. As a result, I don't shop there anymore, even if I end up paying more with a small independent vendor. People need to wake up and...

Diablo III mostly works! Battle net client is broken (can't log-in; crash dialog spam, most windows don't render), but restoring D3 from backup seems fine, and it has Bnet email/pass login at main menu (likely don't need Bnet client if...

There is a book, a bit dated by now, but still useful, by Mike Lucas and only about $10.00 USD. https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/fmzfs/ If you're not familiar with Mr. Lucas's work, hopefully, as you get deeper into FreeBSD, you'll...

I have no reason to do any Fortran programming anymore, except that I have a copy of the Snoopy calendar program for IBM mainframe on my FreeBSD laptop. It worked for a while but recent versions of GCC Fortran and LLVM Fortran fail to understand...

A number of years ago there was a couple of books titled "Megatrends" which was a fascinating series that looked into world trends--NOT predictions. In it, the author talked about "high tech, high touch" and that people liked the idea of being...

We've all been there.

programmers are real, unless declared integer.

Due to this bug: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:12.freebsd-update.asc You should be able to jump from 13.5 to 15.0 in one go. But again, just make sure you have the latest patch release of 13.5, due to this bug...

Heh; I'd be more surprised if RMS entertained AI, but that doesn't sound likely. I like those reasons 😄

The only reason this PR isn't public is the automation for any PR targeting the "Security" component, which makes a lot of sense in general, as such PRs often contain detailed vulnerability/exploit information. But then, there's not really...

Well, the success of Common Lisp in the air fare search domain isn't just because of prototyping. It is because you can make Common Lisp code (in SBCL) run almost as fast as C code. Badly written C code, but nontheless.

Yeah, that brings up a 2016 story of a disgruntled dev who refused to rename a node.js module even in the face of a threat of a lawsuit... Just un-published that module - and broke the Internet. or when Linus Torvalds himself got sent to...

It's true and I do shop elsewhere often, especially for electronic and computer stuff. It does get harder and harder to avoid them though.

Amazon's end game is to be the only gig in town, and their whole business model is designed to make that happen. As a result, I don't shop there anymore, even if I end up paying more with a small independent vendor. People need to wake up and...

That is the onboard software. And yes, the management really screwed the pooch in the last decades. They are not the only ones, mind you. Some planes better get remodelled as something else before they remake themselves into a lawn ornament.

Competent, trustworthy, cheap. Pick two, you can't have all three. Also, I noticed in that linked Reddit commentary that sometimes, a good defense means rebuilding the entire system to NOT depend on a component (xz/LZMA in this case). Now that's...

This has got nothing to do with "built it right for FreeBSD." The exploit inserted a blob (key) that made use of the fact that sshd on Linux systems using systemd, needed some way for sshd to be managed by systemd. OpenSSH needed to be linked...

This looked most interesting. https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up From the linked article: Some Linux distros modify OpenSSH to depend on SystemD SystemD depends on xz-utils, which uses GNU IFUNC Ergo, xz-utils ends up in the address...

https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/discussions/1293

I saw this recent video mentioned on HN and (having watched it) thought it was pretty good: The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew Just to add the HN link: Related HN thread

One of the best Rock sounds ever

You could say (takes off Sunglasses) it registers in your mind. (The Who Scream YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)

I guess when it hits the Register, you know it's really happening.

Due to this bug: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-23:12.freebsd-update.asc You should be able to jump from 13.5 to 15.0 in one go. But again, just make sure you have the latest patch release of 13.5, due to this bug...

A normalfreebsd-update should do that.

Since the creation of C and C++, there have been many different programming languages in vogue. None have outclassed C or C++. So, even the disk will end, and the favorites will still be there.

Yeah I saw that on the man page too, but there is no /etc/zfs/zpool.cache hence the need for the correct "-U" switch for the zdb command to work as expected and the actual default in fact seems to be /boot/zfs/zpool.cache.

1 case in Dutch that I know is a postal code followed up by a town name on a letter or package. No idea where it originates from but it's done a lot. It may have to do with the code format xxxx yy that contains a space itself but should be...

Same here though I don't do it anymore. Took typing class in high school with Mrs. Fischer. Was only one of three guys in the class. The rest were all girls cause girls would just become secretaries, right?

You could say (takes off Sunglasses) it registers in your mind. (The Who Scream YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH)

Hi, thanks for the clarification. So without explicitly setting the (default) cachefile property, I think my zdb command should have been - using the example of a pool called zroot on a different machine: paul@zoo-FreeBSD-portable:-16.0-CURRENT...

cracauer@ , thanks my mental shorthand took over. Yes, that's what I was taught, after a sentence, not after, Mr. Whoever.

The two spaces only appear after a period that terminates a sentence. Not after one for an abbreviation. That is how you tell the two cases apart.

Boeing?

This is s Singapore register, from its google reviews this company is known for scam sites.

for Desktop environments , both Keyboard variant and Language can be configured using the graphical configuration tools of Gnome/IBUS and KDE Keyboard settings / region & Language, You should choose Keyboard map when you...

FTFY Yes, I know what that results in. My dad was an aerospace engineer and that is where his most colorful language would come out. These folks still use Fortran and I still have a "deck" consisting of F66 to F95 code, all in one executable...

The IP belongs to ns1.server145.iseencloud.com (the domain is hosted on iseencloud.com nameservers) and was very likely used as a temporary place holder ("nobody has uploaded a website to this domain yet").

If you paid by Credit Card, complain to your bank.

If you paid by Credit Card, complain to your bank.

programmers are real, unless declared integer.

The IP belongs to ns1.server145.iseencloud.com (the domain is hosted on iseencloud.com nameservers) and was very likely used as a temporary place holder ("nobody has uploaded a website to this domain yet").

Dutch and German have the same roots, and for me the first reading was  Belästigungsdienst, which means "bothering service". Quite a good match, yes?

Note: this is an undervalued tip: just type the name of the domain plus the word 'reputation' or 'scam' into a search engine before you hand over money. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=grandaccessinvestment+reputation There's also TrustPilot...

Had a close friend I made fun of who, around 1980, went to a community college to learn COBOL cause he worked at a bank doing low paying work. Until he died maybe 10 years ago, he was still programming in COBOL for that same bank.

My knowledge of zfs is still very basic, so I'm unsure about the role of the cachefile or the significance of the cachefile pool property being set or unset, but any thoughts on the following? paul@dell-FreeBSD-portable-15.0-STABLE ~ $ uname...

Xlibre is getting some adoption. Looks like it's getting stable. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/ghostbsd_plans_to_adopt_xlibre/?td=keepreading