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I cannot find documentation regarding the FreeBSD-base, FreeBSD-rc, FreeBSD-runtime, FreeBSD-pkg-bootstrap, FreeBSD-utilities packages, etc et.. How many FreeBSD-xxxxx packages are there, which ones are they, and what do they contain? Thanks for...

Same problem here on 14.4 and samba422 but a new version of net/samba422 and deve/jansson just fix it.

I'm not personally sure that it's worth wasting hours on that and the resulting headaches in some cases. Or the possibility of data loss from screwing things up when trying to transfer to a different disk and typing something wrong and the...

Anne Dickison (and Matt) responded. Email sent to journaleditor@freebsdfoundation.org should work now.

How many frames per week?

I have asked someone who has prototyped nontrivial operating systems in Rust.... While this is a possibility, I don't consider governments or their TLA agencies to be smart enough or pervasive enough to pull this off. They can't even do (what's...

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Yes, that's the way to go. Unfortunately pw runs very badly on FreeBSD for me. jack layer just hangs and pulseaudio emulation is compiled out by default. Not sure what's up with that. Pipewire on Linux works great.

Off topic, but new USES and DEFAULT_VERSIONS would be needed for pulseaudio to allow pipewire to be used as the alternative dependency of pulseaudio. I imagine something like USES=pulseaudio instead of directly {LIB|RUN}_DEPENDS on pulseaudio...

I just messed with pipewire, the new audio server. The oss API backend for it in written in Rust. The FreeBSD port uses 56 different crates. 26 of which have version numbers < 1.0. That's just one backend module, not the actual server. Fun?

I have seen a lot of writeups about Rust being unsuitable for quick prototyping because you need to get everything just right before anything works. Namely the borrow checker. That sounds like the opposite end on the spectrum of languages you...

Coding fun. In Rust. Somebody didn't experience the full power of Lisp yet.

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"pkg set -p -n py311-:py312- && pkg upgrade". This may fail if you have a mix of 311 and 312 pkgs and will require a few iterations (including using "pkg check -d" etc.). But you should really keep an eye on /usr/ports/UPDATING!

I don't know about Crysis, but somone has got Doom to run on the ZX Spectrum, which is a small Z80 machine. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_(ZX_Spectrum) Which, I think, is an impressive hack.:-)

I like the idea of just adding more Z80s to be a MMU and etc; how many Z80s would it take to run Crysis? 😆

It can be done with software. Adjust the hardware to approach the same but with the existing physical circuitry if possible. It might need a memory bank for the stack of this construction.

I've got some of those, too.

See, this is what gets me. Who wrote the compiler for Rust?

FreeBSD 14.4, Windowmaker and X11, in the ISS cupola... I'm not sure what the thinkpad is, possibly a T61?... and it looks like the trackpoint red rubber cap has floated off in zero-G somewhere. Oh I don't know, maybe it is there just above the...

We're good on the way. Keyboards are already sofrware-abstracted. You can't do a lot with a USB-keyboard and some wires. Still need PC-standard and a high-level USB driver to read or send something. Phones are ruled out completely. That's a...

I have seen a lot of writeups about Rust being unsuitable for quick prototyping because you need to get everything just right before anything works. Namely the borrow checker. That sounds like the opposite end on the spectrum of languages you...

When wasn't programming fun? I think it's adding complexity and dependency to limit developer competition. "Memory safe development" --> "you can't access that because you naturally don't know what you're doing. Only approved professionals can go...

FreeBSD 14.4, Windowmaker and X11, in the ISS cupola... I'm not sure what the thinkpad is, possibly a T61?... and it looks like the trackpoint red rubber cap has floated off in zero-G somewhere. Oh I don't know, maybe it is there just above the...

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#2 you can trick oracle into thinking you are using the system regularly. Install and use the program called 'stress' and create a crontab entry like this: crontab -e */15 * * * * stress -c 1 -t 15 That will load up the CPUs to 100% usage for...

Crivens I once did and I have some of those still.

When Rust first came out, I bad mouthed it at first glance. Then I studied it a bit more and found good in it but never messed with it beyond that. Turn the page to my recent looks and I'm struggling to understand how to use it. It's a bit...

Maybe one can build such a thing with these...

Coding fun. In Rust. Somebody didn't experience the full power of Lisp yet.

Your news feed becomes populated. Maybe there are other effects I don’t know of.

So the forum lets a user "follow" another user. I don't do this so I'm asking why/what happens? I'm guessing it may give one notifications when a user being followed posts something. I'm assuming it does not create a reciprocal relationship: "Oh...

I have at least two in my drawer in the basement. I would have more but I gave some away decades ago. EDIT: Yep. Two in the easiest place to look. I might have a tube with a couple more elsewhere. Also found an Intel 8085A.

Same here: ~ > pkg version -vRL= Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue... FreeBSD-ports repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue... FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository is up to date...

If you mean Updating FreeBSD 15.0 to FreeBSD 15.1 (via pkgbase) - thanks. That first one was daunting. The following 8 were easier. I did 6 hosts over two days and then two on the Saturday. All running fine. Now I just have to update all these...

Sounds like a Touring Maschine implemented on Z80 emulating some 64 bit arch. Can be done, but why? Maybe turn the Z80 into some kind of bit slice processor, making registers wider but you will be stuck with byte operations on memory. An...

Funny fact that bectl(8) had numerous bugs before it finally reached the beadm(8) level years after introducing ... its was really strange decision for me to NOT include into Base System ready to use BSD licensed beadm(8) tool and wasting a lot...

In my view that is certainly your perogative. Note that the "show-me" mode only prints the situation as sysutils/loaders-update sees it. "simply following the man page" isn't alway that straight forward to many as it may seem to you. Also, IIRC...

To day FVWM(3)

I decided to have two WM's. First one is my favorite Openbox and the second one is JWM. On the second monitor is our missed Luna opened with Geequie. On Openbox I am using Tint2.

FreeBSD 14.4, Windowmaker and X11, in the ISS cupola... I'm not sure what the thinkpad is, possibly a T61?... and it looks like the trackpoint red rubber cap has floated off in zero-G somewhere. Oh I don't know, maybe it is there just above the...

The way I do it: is the newer python package installed, yes, OK, ignore, no, look closer (like your `pkg -r` line of inquiry) two Pythons installed? Remove the old one. Look at what else gets removed I think you can jump straight to step 2...

The package is not available in the package repo. Those py311 packages may have been replaced by py312 (or later) packages. You might also have two versions of python installed now.

That's only because even he can't figure out how to get Wayland working well enough to integrate into systemd. Everybody reaches their limit eventually. It's really well past time that we stopped society in general to raise the children. Some...

wow, you mean, you asked chatgpt and got back a wrong and dangerous answer?

While this is valid to suppress output it is not a good way to do this. For example, backticks get executed. Consider this: : << EOF echo hello echo `touch /tmp/l88` EOF This will execute the touch.

dch asked if I had this entry: [15:48 r730-01 dvl ~] % grep BACKUP_LIBRARIES /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf BACKUP_LIBRARIES=yes * Every host with the orphaned packages has this entry. * Every host without orphaned packages does not have that entry.

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Oh, yeah, I see, my bad, I didn't know about this field! Well, I would honestly expect it to be mentioned more explicitly in wpa_supplicant or wpa_cli. It's not obvious that you need to look at the config manual for a basic usage. But anyway...

Are you looking for net/wutil, wutil/wutui? And you have defined a ctrl_interface directory in the wpa_supplicant.conf?