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Original article here. Consider this when replying. I’m very grateful that the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored my trip to AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference ran from March 19 through 22, with the first two days dedicated to the...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. I’m very grateful that the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored my trip to AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference ran from March 19 through 22, with the first two days dedicated to the...

Over the winter nights i became an amateur horologist. Got some old mechanical watches from the director while house clearing. 1950's broken Roamer, Rotary & a 1910 pattern trench watch which works perfectly after a clean & service. Trying to...

Never used 9p, but you typically only have to do this once, when you first mount it. It should 'stick'. You probably don't need the ACL too. You could simply chgrp -R media-ro /main/media on the host, then make sure the group has 'rx'...

Thank you for the recommendations. I am familiar with these companies, but I live about 2,000 km away from them. I owned one long ago before I gifted it to my sister. Their stock nibs are not on par with Kanwrite or Parker, but the eyedropper...

Those are expensive

A nice video about Indian handmade fountain pens: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0hJE0D7Xgw - part 2 is also good. If you are anywhere near Hyderabad or Rajahmundry you can check out these pen companies!

Session Buddy extension.

Session Buddy extention

Yes and no. Assuming this works the same as any other mounted filesystem, yes for the files and directories within, but no for the mountpoint itself on the client.

`lsblk` from ports seems most suitable and easy to parse the output of.

At a local Trader Joe's where I frequently go (hrm, sounds like a poem), they often have this one on. I'm putting a link to the official video, which has Dr. House (Hugh Laurie, looking as he did in Blackadder) and John Malkovich in it. View...

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So, notice anything about those permissions? Only root (and members of the root group) can access it. On that guest side, chgrp testuser /media9p and chmod g+rx /media9p (you didn't want to write there right?)

"will you borrow me" is somewhat informal in English, but it's something that I've personally said and I've heard other people saying it. I think the origin has to do with the way that the verb works. I can't speak to Swedish, but IIRC, German...

Session Buddy extension.

Looks like you did hit 293273, which implies that you still have mesa-devel on the i386 side (with pkg32.sh) installed. While here: This is counterproductive because DXVK translates OpenGL to Vulkan, so it’s obvious that nothing will work...

Hello all, I want to share that it is possible to enjoy Widevine protect content on Firefox (possibly derivatives also) in addition to what is possible currently with chromium. This will be L3 decode (i.e. software) but in any case it's better...

Funny, but sad, because it borders on truth. https://ifunny.co/picture/how-to-sneak-candy-into-an-american-movie-theater-VHhkr8w57[/U

When Chrome doesn't shut down properly it comes up with a prompt to restore pages. Apparently you can avoid this using a setting:- On startup -> Continue where you left off I have this setting but still need to select Restore. Is there any...

On the guest, what does ls -dl /media9p show (after you mounted the 9p filesystem there)? It's probably not the permissions on the host side, but on your VM side.

For sh: [ -b /dev/<dev> ] && echo "block device" [ -c /dev/<dev> ] && echo "character device"

Well... there are 2 answers to that for me. First is simple & obvious: "because it gets the job done", the power to serve is strong within this one. But my personal reasons... go a bit deeper. To me, personally (!), FreeBSD is the true...

I have come across many USB sticks which are not partitioned so gpart is not a great way of checking for their presence.

Go to single user mode and try to fix it would be an idea.

I know the issue already got marked as solved, but... When you're in doubt about the building process then all you have to do is run more /usr/src/Makefile: One of the many cool perks of FreeBSD's documentation process I think, don't bother to...

Don't use mergemaster(8), it is removed on >=15.0: mergemaster(8) FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE DESCRIPTION The mergemaster utility is deprecated and may not be available in FreeBSD 15.0 or later. Users are advised to use...

If you really want to stick to sendmail I would suggest migrating to the port instead; mail/sendmail. The sendmail in the base OS is slated to be removed (although it's still included with 15).

Well... there are 2 answers to that for me. First is simple & obvious: "because it gets the job done", the power to serve is strong within this one. But my personal reasons... go a bit deeper. To me, personally (!), FreeBSD is the true...

This doesn't seems to be a permissions issue on the host side. I have full access on "virtio-9p" shared sub-directories and files as any non-privileged user (users not present on the host) on a Linux Mint bhyve (vm-bhyve configured) guest, with...

Simple as that.

I'm just trying to write something to a USB stick. This seems to do what I want. if ! usbconfig | grep 'DISK USB' ; then...

Apart from aforementioned Olivetti machine bought around 1990, none of my computers have been OEM. All were built by hand. I had couple of 486s before first Pentium in 1997, and then I moved through P2s and Celerons onto P4 around 2002. Core Quad...

Buy components, build your own. Most of my computers over the years have been self-built. And only decommissioned because they got too old (5-10 years) and couldn't keep up any more, not because something broke. Never had that happen. Did have a...

I avoid gmake natively, but ofc using it on Linux from cmake targets. I have some toy projects I'm doing for FreeBSD, and I've switched them from cmake to our make. There is no need to use absolutely anything else if the product is destined for...

CMake or Meson simply because homegrown configure scripts and makefiles are a pita and prone to break on various platforms when packaging but to answer if you can do with (b)make compatibility that's great.

At most you'd be able to test for the existence of the device file. But you need to know the device in advance. [ -c /dev/da0] for example. And the "USB device" needs to create a /dev/ device node, certainly not all "USB devices" do. Are you...

That symbol seems to come from graphics/libepoxy. Is it installed? Maybe a required dependency was used but failed to register somehow and it got removed when you reinstalled your ports/packages (you're required to do after a major version upgrade).

Good bread is like wine or cheese: The same ingredients can lead to completely different results, depending on the fermentation's conditions. And it needs ripeness (the unbaked dough, of course.) Not weeks, or months, like wine or cheese, but...

There is no way to run test ?

dmesg and usbconfig for example.

It's, at most, some capacitive charge you're discharging by holding down the power button (or short-circuiting various power connections). Static charge doesn't build up inside electrical components, that's impossible. You know what static...

What is the recommend way of testing for the presence of a USB device? gpart only displays partitioned media AFAICS.

Try a different browser? Or some browser plugin in chrome that's interfering? In any case, if you get a successful connection but the browser reports it took too long to respond, you might want to have a closer look at the PHP page or whatever...

That works. I can also connect with lynx so there must be something be wrong with chrome.

That's not how static charge works.

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Better test, nc -zv 192.168.1.20 80. Does that get you a connection refused, timed out or successful? Refused would mean there's nothing listening on that port, timed out might indicate some networking or firewall issues, and connection...

It's not an error and you don't actually need it for Apache to function properly. None of the messages balanga posted are errors that need fixing. The first one is a warning, the second and third are informational. And none of them are the...

No you can't.