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BTW, I do not recommend SMSL DL200 if you care about EMI. Ordinary old kitchen FM radio ceases to work when AC is plugged into DL200. The noise drowns almost all stations except the local one whose transmitter is ~15km away. Doesn't matter if...

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/20/0046231/zilog-z80-8-bit-cpu-turns-50-open-source-replacement-heads-to-drop-in-dip40-silicon "Renaldas Zioma's FOSS Z80 project, launched shortly after the end-of-life notice, now has working silicon...

The only way to get a reasonable answer is to (temporarily) boot the machine from a FreeBSD install image (most common - on a usb stick). Then you can also run the pciconf command to get the exact info needed for the wireless chipset.

It's the only way to avoid things you don't need but that are in packages that you need anyway.

Work to be done after every upgrade. The sense of using packages is to avoid / reduce such work.

Contribute with your CPU idle time to scientific investigation: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

My pleasure. I'm no iocage or dnsmasq user, I discovered how to proceed reading the documentation (only the relevant parts of iocage, dnsmasq and the FreeBSD handbook), web searching, try and error (in a bhyve virtual machine). If I can do it...

Please provide the exact Realtek chipset. Can't tell you if it'll work or not if we don't know what it is.

You can get a short or long description of all or specific pkgbase FreeBSD-* packages with the pkg-search and pkg-rquery commands. Use package name for specific package description. Short description of all FreeBSD-* pkgbase packages: Long...

Maybe do, pkg install drm-kmod gpu-firmware-kmod sysrc kld_list+="/boot/modules/radeonkms.ko" ... Driver "radeon" ... ?

In case anyone is wondering, the schematic shows a Z80 set up in a "free run". The data on the databus is $00, which is a NOP, that instruction doesn't do anything besides using clock cycles. PC (program counter) will then just increase, reading...

15.0 is still supported, so packages in FreeBSD-ports are still built for it. FreeBSD-ports-kmods is the solution, but there are still some kinks to work out.

It is still very much a "work in progress", so things can still move around quite a bit. https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgbase

Please stop using that old configuration command. The config it generates is entirely ignored nowadays. For NVidia add a /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/driver-nvidia.conf: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Driver "nvidia" EndSection...

It is still very much a "work in progress", so things can still move around quite a bit. https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgbase

#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...

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...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. During BSDCan, the FreeBSD Foundation holds its annual meeting and Board elections. Following this year’s meeting, we are pleased to welcome Dave Cottlehuber to the FreeBSD Foundation Board of...

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...