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I struggle with that. I'm not a programmer's programmer though a few times I've had programmer's admire my work. Every time I try to learn another language, and I write some code, I think to myself, "I could have done that just as easy in C!"...

I remember reading parts of that and liking it very much.

1 of the sites sold your information?

At least everything that performs above the bandwidth of the server network connectioni is of no use. I'm at 2.5 Gbit for my major systems at home. An old i3 can already keep up with that. Maybe the long access times of old remote storage devices...

Without looking at the book, I don't see how an algorithms book will help a beginner learn C . I found Beej's book to be silly but I wasn't a beginner when I read it so that may be why. Perhaps it's worth looking at as a beginner. Starting life...

HI bgavin, thank you for the reply. As noted supra, I have Supermicro X9 generation that has been working flawlessly. Regarding the "cheap electrolytic caps", I am looking at the Supermicro X12 generation motherboard. Could you please clarify...

I can understand ECC in a data center environment. Over my many decades in the business, I have seen very few true memory failures. Counted on one hand... Corsair being the chronic offender. Yesterdays tech with a decent OS still performs very...

Never went though an entire C-book and took most from FreeBSD man (3) pages. It covers the significant basics already. #1 practical rule of C: everything is made of bytes. It can't be that complicated. That requires the awareness of a predefined...

Greetings all, how is the NFS client support on Windows 10 LTSC? Kindest regards, M

Hi cracauer@, as I am running from a battery backed solar system, this is not much of an issue. Kindest regards, M

Yeah I saw that movie.

I just wanted to share a fix I have discovered. I had the driver glitching with transparency and vertical lines all couple of hours. This seems to have been fixed by setting setenv KWIN_DRM_NO_DIRECT_SCANOUT 1 before session start.

The annoying thing is that modern PSUs have really weak 5v rails. Not just weak but outright dangerous if group regulated with the 12v. I have recapped one PSU but yes, I would never really trust it. The whole process just felt kinda dangerous...

These days with tab-complete support in most shells, its basically: (Apologies for the poor artwork. My long tab-key appendage kept getting in the way when using MS Paint).

Thank you sko We went back to with SmartOS because of SMF and of course illumos zones.

Now that we have cad/OrcaSlicer in ports, I installed it from a package root@kg-core2:~ # pkg info Orca\* OrcaSlicer-2.3.2_1 I'm running root@kg-core2:~ # freebsd-version -ku 14.4-RELEASE-p8 14.4-RELEASE-p8 root@kg-core2:~ # uname -a FreeBSD...

There's nothing simpler, more observable and debuggable than rc which is just a bunch of shell scripts. Throw in a bunch of "echo"es and you can follow each and every step - it doesn't get any more predictive and discoverable. SMF is a wholly...

To make such a change is it best to add something like this to /usr/local/etc/apache24/includes rather that the main conf file? DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/$website" <Directory "/usr/local/www/$website"> # # Possible values for the...

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I "think" the wget you show is what I used at one time but have since switched (I think) to simply wget -mpEk <site> I do not recall if it downloads just one page or the complete web site. I once used httrack but find wget to be more handy and...

Could it be that the USB SATA controller is underpowered due to the lz4 compression that demands too much controller resources? Thing with USB storage is that it's direct transfer without buffer. The disk has to do everything.

bash Would love to have zsh's interactive features, but zsh is not quite compatible with POSIX sh and I have libraries of functions I use both in scripts and interactively.

I never run etcupdate. Every now and then I add missing UIDs and GIDs.

If you actively find the Google AI preview in search useful to you, you should consider getting a small subscription to Anthropic Claude. Same thing but Google AI preview is fed by small and fast models, Anthropic's models are full-size. I...

Running an old Xeon is always an option. My server is a dual Broadwell (DDR4 registered). But idle power is not great on an DDR4 reg platforms I am aware of.

I "think" the wget you show is what I used at one time but have since switched (I think) to simply wget -mpEk <site> I do not recall if it downloads just one page or the complete web site. I once used httrack but find wget to be more handy and...

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Worpress uses databases for the content, like the most of CMSs. In Wordpress admin pages there is a function to export the site content, it can be imported in another Wordpress installation, so in effects it is like moving a website from one...

AI suggestion:- wget --mirror \ --convert-links \ --adjust-extension \ --page-requisites \ --no-parent \ --wait=1 \ --limit-rate=100k \ https://example.com

Just POSIX sh. Simple and my scripts (mostly) work across platforms. Interactive use is good enough.

Just POSIX sh. Simple and my scripts (mostly) work across platforms. Interactive use is good enough.

Well if you change your shell back to csh it works again. It's just not a feature of sh. edit: it seems sh has that feature too nowadays.

The suffix ".img" in "system.img" is misleading you. That image is not an image in the context of a storage system like a physical or virtual hard drive, with a partition scheme/table, boot code, file systems, etc., but an image of a ZFS...

Yes that's true, but to do it properly I should reboot to single user, then run etcupdate. On top of that the inodes of files that not supposed to change change so it also impacts backup.

Sometime around FreeBSD 14 (I think) the default shell was changed to `sh`. In early beta versions of 14.0 it worked as you'd expect. Type in a few letters of the command, press the UP key on your keyboard and it would cycle through the history...

The I/O shield is the thin piece of metal that goes between the motherboard and the case. I find them a bit of a pain; there are rows of clips that are intended to make contact with sides of the various sockets and they are easily pushed...

That chrome piece only? I usually threw them away because it never fits well and it's sharp. It changes the airflow a bit but who cares? I thought it was like these brand-owned not real PCI cards with I/O ports on it that Compaq and Packard Bell...

this is absurdly impressive, it definitely is the kind of stuff i'd want my kid to do if i'm finally able to have one as it's a much-needed skill shoutout to your kids man

It has tab completion but it just goes through the current directory listing. It obviously wasn't meant as common environment where you can do anything like a UNIX shell. They were already limiting consumer computers to create a softeware-world...

I'm trying to find my way around Wordpress and would like to copy a small existing website to my system. How should I go about that?

Seemingly after Chromium updated to 150, the video stutters when other tabs are loading so this is the new norm now.

i have similar problem on Thinkpad T16 with Ryzen Ai pro 5 where I boot 15.1 installer via usb it hangs at pci6 bridge. I not sure what causing it. I tried randomly disable hardware and it seems the installer managed to start properly when I...

I've been grinding my teeth trying to avoid responding but I guess I'm weak so I'll "with respect" vehemently disagree with the above position. A filename is like a book/essay/report title. It is NOT suppose to contain a detailed description of...

I use sh on FreeBSD; used Bash longest on Linux, but never really had a reason to try anything else :p (my scripts are simple and most games were a delete of ba for #!/bin/sh to FreeBSD) I use CMD on Windows (not a fan of PowerShell syntax)

Unlike most people on this thread, my scripts are probably horribly primitive, many working in sh as well. But blackbird9, I thought I'd heard that zsh is compatible with bash, that is it will work with most bash scripts. I thought that was part...

I think you mean the Cuckoo's Egg, though everyone reading will know what you meant.

tcsh only (for root too). The C shell language is a language to learn as all the other, but what bothers me is that a "C something" must have functions, otherwise call it in another way.

Whatever shell is set for the user I'm currently working as on whatever machine I'm currently working on. For FreeBSD that means sh and csh, for Debian it is mostly bash. And so on. I'm not very tied into whatever shell I use; I configure it so...

I've been grinding my teeth trying to avoid responding but I guess I'm weak so I'll "with respect" vehemently disagree with the above position. A filename is like a book/essay/report title. It is NOT suppose to contain a detailed description of...

I have something to add about this too. I've been using DOS/Windows for a long time, even before long filenames were added. The length of 8.3 names bothered me a bit, but I've never used names longer than 100-150 characters, and very rarely, the...