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I feel very fortunate that I bought my current desktop a year or two ago before the RAM prices started to sky rocket. I was able to completely fill out it's RAM capacity with 32gb of RAM. Granted, it's DDR4, but I probably should sell the...

Probably a bit of misconception here. Automatically starting X and showing a GUI login screen is a function of a display manager. Some Desktop Environments have their own display manager, some don't. In any case, just like window managers, there...

I would debate that. You don't need any account on the ports collection to access them, and there should be nothing in there that is age restricted. So you have no reason to check any age. Germany has a guideline/rule not to request data you...

Or select the boot environment you want to start from the boot menu.

mer doas is from OpenBSD. FreeBSD has it, but the persist feature doesn't work, so you have to type your password every time. There is, however, opendoas, which honors the persist feature in /usr/local/etc/doas.conf so if you type a password it...

After you start the MySQL without grant tables you need to load it using "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" and after that you can reset the password. From 8.0.35 Native password is replaced with caching_sha2_password...

I don't think worm out RAM is a thing. And firmware that can contain malware is just being introduced now. (ETA: into RAM modules)

Thank you T-Daemon and others for clearing up my misconceptions. It is in fact unfortunate that you have to revive a dead port to get PXE boot in bhyve.

WI1 chip1: Realtek RTL8812BU doesn't seem to be supported in any FreeBSD version. To be sure, you could ask a wireless FreeBSD developer on freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org mailing list.

I am surprised at mdo, and that I hadn't come across it before this article. Being built-in certainly is preferred over a 3rd party program. I've setup doas before, primarily for working with bhyve VM's. This will be fun to learn!

Probably a bit of misconception here. Automatically starting X and showing a GUI login screen is a function of a display manager. Some Desktop Environments have their own display manager, some don't. In any case, just like window managers, there...

After you start the MySQL without grant tables you need to load it using "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" and after that you can reset the password. From 8.0.35 Native password is replaced with caching_sha2_password...

Because the module is named that way for PHP 8.0+. And it gets added automagically after installing any of the mod_php* ports/packages.

This issue was bothering me for some time now, but I hadn't the time to test. Since sysutils/edk2 was upgraded from tianocore version g202308_5 to g202508, PXE booting was possible no more. Luckily I found on https://pkg.ghostbsd.org/ an...

That should go in /usr/local/etc/apache24/modules.d/ DocumentRoot "/srv/www/public" <Directory "/srv/www/public"> Don't do it this way. Leave httpd.conf as is, including its default website. Want to create your own website? Create a...

A few months ago I was eying an RTX-5090. Nah, 2200,- is too much (I could afford it, just don't want to pay it). That same card is now 4200,-, almost doubled in price. Should have bought it at 22 :rolleyes:

Crash handlers? I mean, the process crashed (for whatever reason) and libc needs to clean up that dead process?

Yes, you right. Ah, yes, right. But Linux kept it for itself: 4.4BSD and derivatives

Port appears to be missing a RUN_DEPENDS= gdk-pixbuf-extra>0:graphics/gdk-pixbuf-extra Please report it so the port can be fixed.

You are mistaken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//proc Linux heavily relies on it, yes. Also extended it a lot. But it certainly isn't a "Linux" function. It existed long before Linux did.

Hello, proc /proc procfs rw Proc - it is only needed for certain ports. A clean system does not need Proc. Besides, if I'm not mistaken, Proc is only a Linux function.

Yes, and I don't think that you even need to put it into the cache directory. At least when tried pkg add ./package_name.pkg it just pulls up the relevant information and that's how I used to do it back in olden times. The other thing to...

I am unable to get a jail to inherit mac.do settings for a user in group wheel. Host is set up to use mdo: /usr/local/bastille/jails $ mdo sysctl security.mac.do security.mac.do.rules: gid=0>uid=0,gid=*,+gid=* security.mac.do.print_parse_error...

Sometimes I think that is a feature and not a bug. If you make it easy like that, then the adults that get to vote are less likely to vote against it or the politicians that put it into place.

I'll have to take a look at mdo. I personally don't really like these tools, I've just had them on too many systems where they use the same password as the user and aren't restricted to any specific tasks to like them and remain active for a...

I did scuba diving for sports more than 35 years. I remember one New Year celebration on the seaside and how we drink champagne on 15 m under water :). It was fun.

I know, I just think that it's pretty weird how it gets extended to things that have nothing to do with the stage.

port knocking is sorta passe. is there any reason you can't use standard ETRN to trigger a queue flush?

I'll look into that.

When I start my desktop computer (not FreeBSD) it has a postfix instance to receive mail from my FreeBSD server machine which is always on. I want mail which is waiting to be delivered immediately so I can read it. I therefore have a start-up...

I'm quite sure the digital ID thing is bound to a person based on biometric data like a fingerprint or irisscan, or a rfid-like key provided by the government. Problem is that it requires a "compromised" computer because the owner could...

hedwards When you are watching a stage play from the audience and the play is set in, say, an apartment, you'll see the back wall of the apartment, the left wall and the right wall. Those are three walls. The missing fourth wall is the one...

All this speculation without (so far as I can see) anyone posting a link to the Act - https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025. The wording is clear, not ambiguous, and laws don't work by what people think they mean but by what judges determine...

I haven't tried it inside of a jail, but it looks like it would: (I haven't noticed any real difference in terms of what's mountable via both methods, just whether or not the jail knows about it) # mkdir -p foo/bar/baz # mkdir -p...

Which of course shows the obvious flaw. Children will just lie about their age and although the law requires the developer to do something about that if they become aware of it, it's not clear how an app could work that out.

Which of course shows the obvious flaw. Children will just lie about their age and although the law requires the developer to do something about that if they become aware of it, it's not clear how an app could work that out.

personally, we charge $400 an hour for reviewing AI generated code, but we will review human-written makefiles for free. our recommendation is to delete the slop makefile, read the documentation on Make (man make...

Windows does it (I used to select Philippines since it had Cortana region-disabled :p)

All this speculation without (so far as I can see) anyone posting a link to the Act - https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025. The wording is clear, not ambiguous, and laws don't work by what people think they mean but by what judges determine...

All this speculation without (so far as I can see) anyone posting a link to the Act - https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/2025. The wording is clear, not ambiguous, and laws don't work by what people think they mean but by what judges determine...

Is it? It's been a while since I actually did that, but wasn't the purpose of that getting to single user mode if for some reason you want to do so before/without rebooting? It seems sensible enough to me that it would default to the thing that's...

personally, we charge $400 an hour for reviewing AI generated code, but we will review human-written makefiles for free. our recommendation is to delete the slop makefile, read the documentation on Make (man make...

Presumably, but now that I think about it, I thought the 4th wall was the one that separates the press (4th estate) from the reader. As in most of the time you're not really supposed to be consciously aware of the creator of the news article, TV...

Now I got it. Thanks for clearing this up.

Enjoyed all that as well but I'm particularly enjoying "One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics" although I'm only about halfway through - it's long. :) (Edit: I did finish it, btw: very good!)

Thank you for the weekly dose of interesting news. I read in full EricBSD's post about XLibre and the future of GhostBSD and found it both a very good read and very illuminating. I recommend reading it to anyone interested in the BSD world. I...

AlfredoLlaquet I entered the entertainment world in 1971 on the technical side. My son is a professional actor and I helped him with his acclaimed theatre company in Chicago for 10 years. I have credits in three movies on IMDB. I kinda know stuff.

AlfredoLlaquet I entered the entertainment world in 1971 on the technical side. My son is a professional actor and I helped him with his acclaimed theatre company in Chicago for 10 years. I have credits in three movies on IMDB. I kinda know stuff.

Don't forget that you have many examples in /usr/src, /usr/share/mk and in ports.

I heard the OS option was to allow apps to query it (maybe the OS has to note it somewhere like Windows registry, but the OS itself doesn't have to do anything with the age nor collect as telemetry?)