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cracked.com often has a collection of allegedly funny tweets. Most are mediocre, but this made me laugh. Tailgating me while I'm going 80 in a 45 zone is crazy. And those red and blue lights on top of your car look stupid.

There's some state California law that applies to operating systems. One of the desktop BSD's put it in their license that it can't be used in California, bc they didn't want to get fined over some regulations. It may not be the fault of...

Last I tried KDE did not allow a different window manager to run (with KDE). So you want to use a DE without a mouse?

An innocent newbie would not even attempt this, they would drag a monitor and keyboard to the closet. Or get an IPMI capable mainboard. How is a newbie going to figure out which IP address the thing lands on after USB boot?

cracked.com often has a collection of allegedly funny tweets. Most are mediocre, but this made me laugh. Tailgating me while I'm going 80 in a 45 zone is crazy. And those red and blue lights on top of your car look stupid.

Hey all, Finally, after a while, I'm ready to "pour" FreeBSD on a laptop and see if it can be a daily driver as a desktop. Reason is that I'm scared Systemd in Linux may end up doing/permitting age verification. Now...I am 62 yrs young, so any...

That's a really nice short poem! I still have hope that FBSD becomes even more welcoming to interested newbies. At least AFAICT there has been a lot of improvement concerning this in the last decade. Now I'm going to ask some Q how to set up my...

I say go for it. I'm growing tired of the "nay"'s and "no"'s. What is it to them?

We had a small computer shop in the family. I was waiting for my dad to finish what he was doing with ADI 17" monitor so I could get it back for my home PC. One day he comes in and says the monitor is free to go but he didn't pick it up from the...

We had a small computer shop in the family. I was waiting for my dad to finish what he was doing with ADI 17" monitor so I could get it back for my home PC. One day he comes in and says the monitor is free to go but he didn't pick it up from the...

That's not the point. The point is that some innocent newbie might want to install FBSD on his/her headless box. My intention was to provide an install medium that they can download to do that. I can create it, you can create it, but most...

Look at how a vagrant image is set up.

I've asked Claude to sum up runtime of new series, seems they shot more than 230 hours of "new" material in last 9 years. Compare that to 260 hours of Star Trek TV series shot between 1993 and 2001. About the same time span, about the same...

You mean bsdinstall? Hm yes, a minimal basic install where sshd runs as the only service after boot. Then we don't have to worry about breaking the install procedure, because it does not apply. IIUC that's exactly what mfsBSD does. So 1. I...

What's the objective when installing a new window manager into an existing DE? Do you want to replace the DE, or do you want to run the same DE with a different WM? The latter is possible only in a few DEs.

"We have an open door policy". "And an open airlock policy". The Star Trek guest star really stars in B5.

Any way to pull up the volume of this without walking to the amp? This is way below Youtube in the same browser and I don't see a volume button...

modules.d is directory for third party module configuration files. The files in this directory are automatically included in the httpd config if they name begins with a 3 digit number followed by "_" underscore and ending in ".conf" So if you...

Would it help if the operating system would buffer the incoming TCP-sockets of the individual processes automatically? In this case the program did this and it helped in the problem.

If you are a newcomer, I'd suggest making things as simple as possible and take things step by step. Getting a GUI up and running can be done using pkg install -y xorg lxde-meta and then start it from the command prompt using startx.

Thats's why I told you to use a proper install, configured with your user account, to boot the blind server. There is no need to use an installer image. sysinstall can be started from any installed system.

Apart from DEFAULT, nothing prevents you to spam as many ifconfig_xxx0 entries as you like in the same /etc/rc.conf, in preparation for different interfaces the target machine might have.

Having this in a FreeBSD 14.2 custom /etc/rc: [ -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ] || /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -t dsa -f $TARGET_DIR/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key -N '' > /dev/null [ -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key ] || /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -t rsa -f...

You're not going to damage your hardware.

... and 3. Where do we have to patch service sshd keygen into the boot sequence?

Another advantage of this other than just as an installer is to have SSH in the installed OS before mounting the 'real' filesystems. This would allow passwords to unlock encrypted filesystems to be provided over SSH (with key login) by a hidden...

Much as I dislike systemd (I've seen it said, though I don't have enough knowledge to comment intelligently that Poettering knew a lot about C, but nothing about system administration) in this case I don't think it can be blamed on systemd, but...

Saw the subject and thought it was a line about the US and government attitude towards immigration. Although, now they seem to be using it to see if it distracts from Epstein...

While I prepare the preliminary patch file version 0.1 (MILESTONE 1: Usable with basic UNIX knowledge AND a UNIX machine to prepare the image (apply the patch)), anyone interested in this topic can 1. dive into the rc scripts of the install image...

Showing your uname -a might be helpful

These signs in fields actually have a really nice story behind them. And, Alain De Vos ... <nitpick> if your dog smells better than you, maybe it's time for a bath? </nitpick> (sorry, that was too good a pun not to make)

But when the password is available on the internet, say it is "FreeBSD-15-STABLE" or the like, or no password at all (empty), it's not secure (an attacker can login). I'd say if it's easy to add some basic hardening, we should do it. Else...

Still don't actually need the INDEX. The database of available packages and versions to compare against the installed packages may be chosen by specifying one of -P, -R or -I or by setting VERSION_SOURCE in pkg.conf(5). If not...

A live memstick system is no option? I made a FreeBSD system that boots into RAM, adds a wheel user with ssh access from the local network and starts sshd, No problem to log in and dd an OS image to the local disk or run any non-graphical...

Ok, that was easy. I followed this recipe and with just a few changes in the install image I can log in as root w/o password. It is ifconfig_DEFAULT in uppercase, I forgot that... I guess what I did must be more or less the same like thogard...

A live memstick system is no option? I made a FreeBSD system that boots into RAM, adds a wheel user with ssh access from the local network and starts sshd, No problem to log in and dd an OS image to the local disk or run any non-graphical...

I've contemplated a script that figures out there is no useful rc.conf or network, set up all interface with dhcp. Checks that ssh has no keys and then creates them and installs a ssh key for root and then starts up sshd in a limited role with a...

Sounds very cool! So quick middleware requirements for example: CV (OpenCV) Image processing (stb_image, lodepng, etc) ML (Tensorflow? PyTorch) Database (Sqlite) UI (Qt/Gtk/Fltk/etc) This isn't too strenuous for any specific language. The most...

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Fun fact: With a read-only filesystem, the dash and underscore on my USB keyboard are disabled. But after mount -uw / I have them... Isn't that funny?! Right. 1. The console will not be disabled. 2. I want to create a solution for the 99/100...

Yes. If the machine has that (most do), it would be silly to disable these. All I want is that when your home/SOHO server box is placed in the broom closet, you're not forced to carry a display and keyboard and plug them in when you want to...

Yes exactly. And what is the "right" network interface? I know it's easy to set up when you know it's just for this one machine, today. But I'd like to create a more universal solution. Pitfall #1 ifconfig_default="DHCP" in rc.conf does not...

"You can't just kick them out of an airlock. You know how low we are on supplies! First strip them down, THEN kick them out of an airlock!" And one of my favorite 10 seconds is that oh-so-not-sorry speech.

I was a huge fan, I mean I still am of the classic 66-01 series... Enterprise was cool, but kind of a mislead plot, and rushed ending. The final seasons were great. My favourite has to be DS9, TNG maybe has higher highs but DS9 is one of the...

Thanks. I feel old now. I had to carry 17" CRT around, use serial line to make a network to play Doom or an online text-mud. In that case, I recommend reading the book series around that. The Centauri trilogy has all the back story around Londo...

Are you trying to configure wifi? You don't need those in kld_list, read iwm The FreeBSD 15.0 installer should detect and download the firmware, it did it for my 7260, be aware that these models won't connect to wireless N networks, only a/b/g...

All you need is a finished FreeBSD install on a USB stick that is configured to do dhcp on the right interface for the target machine.

There is so much that can go sideways before sshd has been started. Maybe an ssh-like console in addition to the traditional and serial consoles. Like an sshd built into loader(8). This comes with the caveat, how to implement this securely. The...

A more powerful version could start a VNC or RDP server or a lighttpd (tiny HTTP server) for graphical login. Then fancy images could be shown with instructions how to backup the previous OS etc. pp. So that ordinary people can install FBSD on...

I think there are a lot of "trekkies" out there. "Trekkie fans"? ie fans of "trekkies"...probly not so much. Oh, and for the record...I have zero use for the "reloaded" franchise...total crap! heavy special effects, weak plots, and the...