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Wed Apr 15 03:45:00 CEST 2026 - Adding DDoS addresses to PF table... Reloading pf rules. Done adding... Wed Apr 15 04:00:00 CEST 2026 - Adding DDoS addresses to PF table... Reloading pf rules. /usr/local/etc/pf.conf:28...

The shell script is just doing a service pf reload after adding new ips - I'm not sure if it's replacing or flushing the already loaded <ddos> table. This is what I have (if there are any errors): ### SET PARAMS ext_if="vmx0"...

Here is shortest almost useless program. IEFBR14 CSECT XR 15,15 ZERO RETURN CODE BR 14 RETURN What does it do? Let's translate this to C: int main() { return (0); } Pretty...

The man page has been corrected.

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...

Well, it says ntfs and likely actually contains an ntfs. What are you waiting for? Ignore small additional partitions on Windows disks.

I'm writing this from Chrome running from the latest Hiren;s Boot CD based on Windows 11 which I booted via Ventoy. It looks pretty good. I'd recommend any Hiren;s users to upgrade. This new version goes straight into my toolkit.

I managed to get bun built but had to workaround some errors, likely due to changes since the script/patches were written: https://github.com/8ff/bun-freebsd/issues/1 something is still not quite right though. I was in the process of building...

This might be an apocryphal story, but it amuses me nonetheless. Supposedly Larry McV yanked the Bitkeeper rug out from under Linus because Tridge "reverse engineered" the BK protocol. According to Tridge, this involved telnetting to the BK port...

How do you update a disk firmware? I thought it was ROM. Iloveyou was a vbscript worm as I remember. That only works until early WinXP,

... but first I would update the firmware version from "TC6OAB1A" to at least "TC6OAB2F", for speeding up dd. But before dd, he must be responsible, and check the content with an original copy of Dr Solomon Anti-Virus Toolkit, for avoiding to...

How do you update the firmware and can you do it from FreeBSD. I guess I should see if the firmware on my other disks needs updating. Never thought of doing something like that.

I might be younger than both of you, yet my first hdd is 20 MB.

4oz Fishing Sinker and a Hairdryer.

You are showing your age. My first computer had a wapping 100 MB disk.

It was a weird hype. afaik. I remember all PC stores were full of it but the mouse click interface was so different than WFW3.11 that nobody got it. CP/M what it seems to be derived from wasn't that bad for the time, though. It runs on my old...

Actually you want each audio carrying cable to have the shield grounded, but only on one end.

Pollution

Exactly. Just like Linux has an extremely large market share of development systems and servers, git has an extremely high market share. I've worked at a company that had multiple internal systems (each of which was better than git in some...

Why wifi in a VM?

It was actually really big for that time. I probably had it in a Thinkpad 760, but can't remember. It may well have OS/2 installed since that is what I was mainly using at the time.

I would like to know what is on it first, but copying to central storage is a good idea.

I spliced random barrel wires to 12V Molex for my network stuff; the barrel wires usually have one with white/different paint that I assumed meant that wire was center (iirc something like non-painted wire to black molex, painted to yellow/12V)...

Well, it worked as expected. The memstick with my mailed kernel module made on some Apple activated the network after loading it from the shell. I was actually just wondering if there was a workaround for this but apparently not. PC mainboards...

I drove the Git adoption at the company where I was working in the early 10s. Linus and Linux had nothing to do with it. Every other place I've worked at since has already been on Git.

I see where you're coming from, but that's the whole point; something covered in "other ways", amongst which sticky bits but mostly mtree.

I can definitely respect that, but at the same time you can also turn this around: if Git wasn't all that great then why did it gain such a massive userbase? Now, I obviously don't know how you guys are using Git but as a die-hard Git fan(boy?)...

It doesn't look like massive space. How about imaging all primary devices like /dev/da0 to a central storage with dd? A compressed ZFS pool or just gzipped images to save space, maybe?

Not sure how to add tools. Do I just copy them onto the filesystem or do they need to be installed?

Over the years I've managed to accummulate around 30 laptop disks and would like identify and possibly backup and reuse some of them. Many are from my pre FreeBSD days. It is difficult to analyse what is on some of them but hopefully someone may...

loader.efi is designed to boot FreeBSD. It is not a "boot selector". What you're looking for is typically done with a boot selector like GRUB or rEFInd.

Hmm, I don't quite see anyone suggesting as much. Not to mention, you're not the only one; while I am quite familiar with Perl regexps (and regular expressions in general) I never really used the language. Did recently upgrade to 5.42 though ;)...

why not just use an EFI loader and just boot its native loader (grub I guess)? chainloading was an ugly hack for legacy boot, but is rather pointless with EFI...

The web server should be identifying the content as text/plain so that the browser can display it. Instead they are either not assigning any mime type or a wrong one, so the browser falls back to binary download of content.

What might crypto coin mining go under? I figure GPUs can mine and AI can be accelerated with a GPU; gaming/multimedia has a section but what else might someone use a GPU for if not AI or mining? I'd sooner use a GPU for mining than AI :p (quick...

Maybe poke around over on OpenBSD bug database see if anyone has reported similar. OpenBSD is the genesis of FreeBSD pf, had divergence, but things have been brought a lot closer (I think to make fixes and new features easier to integrate)

I have actually find some reports, but many of them have been for 13.x and 14.x, and they often points to a fix that's a couple of years old. And that fix seems to be included in 15.x. I might need to tune something more, just need to figure out...

One of the younger engineers where I worked called us over. "Hey, guys! Come here. Look at this!". He had wired a tantalum capacitor in backwards and the top popped off with a little candle like flame on top. Only a hardware engineer would get...

Only if they are, in fact, about creating a new port for said tool. Installation/upgrade issues (existing port or package) can go in "Installation and updating of ports and packages", that split is already there. A VPN for example, can fit in...

I just came acorss an updated version of HBCD Hiren's BootCD PE https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ [ some hours later] I tried downloading the above link via Chrome on both FreeBSD and Windows, on one it timed out twice after about 20...

Too hulking. Redundant, because we already are under FreeBSD What about: AI, LLM & ML And I want to repeat my wish for explicite prohibition of any AI related stuff in the other forums (except Off-Topic, maybe.)

Those can stay in "offtopic".

loader.efi is designed to boot FreeBSD. It is not a "boot selector". What you're looking for is typically done with a boot selector like GRUB or rEFInd.

There was something relating to bandwidth specification for one of the queues (single case) where the underlying variable was a uint32 and it needed to be a uint64 (I'm paraphrasing). OpenBSD fixed it, it was ported to CURRENT (not sure if it...

I'm hoping so, and that this isn't on my end. Updating the thread if/when I find more information!

The classic example of the impact of quality engineering is Japanese manufacturing. While many of the complacent post-war western companies left quality on one side, the Japanese with their long tradition of craftmanship took it to heart and...

Alright, cool, it's the default 'pkg.freebsd.org'. That's good. What's not so good is that you appear to be redirected to a broken mirror.

Make a "random AI thread" and talk about it all day long there if you wish.

How about "ML, LLM and generative AI"? Think that covers most of it?

This is what I do in my .profile, not specifically for this problem but for one like it. if tty >/dev/null 2>&1; then eval $(tset -Q -s -m ansi:vt100 -m unknown:cons25 -m screen.xterm-256color:xterm-256color -m xterm:xterm-256color -m...