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> Frequent urge to teach coworkers automations. ?! "Hey, John want to see the cool new trick I just learned?" "nope. go 'way." "It's really cool?" "nope." "but it will save you time...?" ...

I have been a admin/user of FreeBSD since v2.15. I love FreeBSD and I am an evangelist for it. As FBSD 13 was EOLed I had to upgrade to 14. What a crapshow! The upgrade appeared to go smoothly, but what happened to my packages? The db didn't...

I can't believe I live in the same state as this university and that my son, the fruit of my loins, went there. I am so embarrassed.

The Assisted-By: line is very much human made.

It's also a personality thing without being constructive. I need to get mad about a lot to get things done. Just keep it in the area of computers. Everything is designed stupid. 😆

A good idea might be to dump the sql pkgdb. Why do we need a specific data format to see what's installed while everything else is just text? If it's gone, much more community package utilities will appear... Not if you have to learn a database...

And this is your first post here?

Building Chromium without any parallelism is an interesting proposition...

I did start a thread on this, I called it, "Retro Computing MegaThread." I was waiting for you to make the thread but you never did and it took a day or so for the message to get approved and become visible. Just as this message will take awhile...

My orics, jupiter ace and msx are in the attic somewhere. AFAIK they still work...

IBM 5155, PS/2 386, Philips NMS 8280 MSX. Lots of 8-bit consoles. Still have to make a Macintosh SE and Amstrad Joyce work with their broken SCSI disk and 3" floppy replaced with flash storage. Using a large amount of FreeBSD utilities to make...

What does this say?

Try Filters, Enhance, ...

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I've just installed GIMP for the first time and it seems what I would call 'full featured' so I have no idea where to find an image sharpening feature. Anyone know where I should look?

The X201 is another older thinkpad that also works well with freebsd. That is the immediate predecessor of the X220. It's pretty similar, the main limitation is you can only put a max of 8GB ram in the X201, and only a single sata drive...

The Linux kernel just added a Documentation/ file about this: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Kernel-Docs-AI-Bugs

I've continued experimenting with this VM + bridge + multiple tap setup. Here's what I found and added to my experience about the OLD way bridging. Perhaps it is also related to problems I'm having with this NEW bridge structure? In my old...

graphics/gmic is a commandline tool for this kind of work that is more powerful than ImageMagick. It has various sharpening algorithms.

graphics/gmic is a commandline tool for this kind of work that is more powerful than ImageMagick. It has various sharpening algorithms.

Thanks a lot for that link, really. This way I stumbled upon Pale Moon browser, which is a "saw-off" Mozilla fork, if I may use the expression. And I like it.

xlibre has a number of developers working on it (more than most Wayland projects). One of them is stefan11111 who has in the past done some great work at cleaning up fundamental libraries (i.e gtk+2). Speaking of which, there is even more...

ISTR having a Jupiter Boadcasting channel a long time ago when I first started using KODI and often watched BSD Now, but when I check the website https://www.bsdnow.tv/ I don't see any videos. Is it just me that can't find them?

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There should be a tool in the ImageMagick collection that can sharpen images.

So good! Thanks!

There should be a tool in the ImageMagick collection that can sharpen images.

Does any know of any graphics program which is good at sharpening blurry images?

root@zero2:~ # uname -a FreeBSD zero2 15.0-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p8 GENERIC arm64 root@zero2:~ # lsusb Bus /dev/usb Device /dev/ugen0.4: ID 0b05:18f0 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. Realtek 8188EUS [USB-N10 Nano] Bus /dev/usb Device...

No jails are setup and running. WITR ' why-is-this-running' in ports, shows this type of example for the one that runs about 3 hours, both processes, and the one that runs about 6 hours, both processes ! Haven't had time to check on it all further.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h90j6NAnS8U

FSOL... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAvHjoLxxh8 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhOXE4wn6Sk View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpaFRsFIVoc

periodic running on the host and a jail simultaneously?

My experience with OpenBSD was fine, never use it on production enviroments or work, Only for "general user" , I find it someting slow compared to FreeBSD , in general I keep with FreeBSD

I just found, several months later, that I have similar issues. I used to use reptyr all the time, with nothing but the PID, e.g., reptyr 12345 and it was fine--maybe this was around FreeBSD-13? Anyway on FreeBSD-15-RELEASE, it no longer works...

Minimalist as always. Found some surreal close-ups of Jupiter from NASA JPL that I put on rotation.

That's what every SEO genius would say... At this point I don't even know if I am being sarcastic or literal ;)

IBM 5155, PS/2 386, Philips NMS 8280 MSX. Lots of 8-bit consoles. Still have to make a Macintosh SE and Amstrad Joyce work with their broken SCSI disk and 3" floppy replaced with flash storage. Using a large amount of FreeBSD utilities to make...

Not particularly. Though what I meant earlier was that the very fact that people are using AI for these contributions is enough evidence that it improves their personal workflow. There is no reason to believe they are using these tools because...

Yeah I think they're lost, 40/80 GB drives are from 21st century, they went along Pentium 4 machines :D I have the 40 GB HDD I had back then still, Maxtor but still looking like Quantum they bought at that point. But to be fair I don't cry over...

Would any one know of a reason for two instances running of the same task? This goes on for hours daily, heavy CPU usage vs just one instance.

I went full-time FreeBSD for a couple years. These are my takeaways : I never look back. FreeBSD instilled in me a real love for Unix, the rediscovery of computer pioneers, it make me feel myself a genuine computer enthusiast.

to reduce time finding things...

I'm so very much confused by things like this. Also, I've seen terms like "Linux nerd" or "Linux poweruser" or "guru" or whatever but at the same time, the "requirements" are childish. -e.g. "install a package" or "start a service" or "install a...

Hey wolffnx, great that you still have the CRT it is the most important item and hardest to acquire now. Does it still have good picture? Btw. You probably made a typo, extra zero - 80 GB is hdd from the future for that machine ;)

I miss my first computer!! But live in my heart -pc100 motherboard -amd k6 micro -16mb of ram -dont remember the storage but 80gb more or less -17crt monitor(still have it and works) Remember start in the "computer" world with this, upgrade the...

There are descent animations of it but I doubt if it's certain. At some altitude it rains carbon crystals or diamonds that condensated in the sky. 😎

Instead of going off topic in some thread when the good old days are mentioned, let's have a place to bounce stuff here :) Do you keep some old computers alive, work on them occasionally or even try to keep them up and running through daily...

One thing I like about Fuguita's website is anyone can jump on in and communicate with the developer through his message board page. No e-mail account required! No lists/forums to register for, just post via web even without javascript enabled...

The wording proposed above was considered too wordy.