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Computers are very simple. They can only do a small number of real operations. Add numbers together. Store a value in memory. Read a value from memory. Perform conditional tests and change program flow depending on the result. The trick is...

Short: Pick one of the languages: C, Perl, or Python (My personal recommendations; others may tell you other things. I would not say, they are wrong, neither they are right. You pick!) Write a "Hello World!" prog in it. Long: Start to learn...

Wayland is wack. Caused by insufficient exposure to software like XPra.

Wayland compositors and Xorg are more similar than you may think. Check out the Xorg drm driver and the e.g. wlroots drm 'backend'. The code is almost identical. X11 is old but I am becoming increasingly convinced it will outlive Wayland. For...

Who cares about astronomy? I have a PhD in AstroLOGY.

It sounds like handing your physical I/O channels to a 3rd party. A remote service operating your UI? That's a full-privilege pass.

Maybe it has something to do with the instance type? Mine is a shared resource VPS.

The graduation ceremony speech starts with "Platu Verrata *cough cough*" But we need to at least give the astrology the credit that it was the humus and springboard for astronomy. Math also profited from it. And it is an anchor for some people...

Recently acquired a G3 iMac in absolute mint condition. It was in a little "museum" at $DAYJOB. They're clearing out because we'll be moving to a different location some time soon. If I had said no, it would have ended up on a landfill, couldn't...

"Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit." ~ Henry Rollins

Nice. Here is another one called "Cherry Red". Not Jazz though View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0cSNTZMcdk

Well, it wouldn't be Linux if they don't reinvent the wheel now, would it? That is practically their MO.

Gotta' be honest. I was not epecting the terms "Milky Way" and "Sagittarius A*" to show up in these forums and I HAD to check it out.

Recently acquired a G3 iMac in absolute mint condition. It was in a little "museum" at $DAYJOB. They're clearing out because we'll be moving to a different location some time soon. If I had said no, it would have ended up on a landfill, couldn't...

Here is photo of today with M290 and M19, M290 side by side View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9JdlE3p-zM a video of M19 in action playing a 4 track MOD

I acquired cheaply from ebay an Olivetti M290 system. It is a 286 12 MHz running from the SBC board on a backplane in AT compliant factor. Unfortunately, the upgrade I meant to do, replace SBC with Advantech 486 card, won't work because the 486...

I have now added a pfctl -k $BAD_IP_ADDRESS to my script. Let's see whether that helps. The script has already reduced abusive activity quite a lot and the server seems snappier at responding to requests as a result. The error logs are shrinking...

Just tried. No success Unfortunately, for a strange reason, not possible with sysctl, it must be with /boot/loader.conf I will try later. What wonders me, is, that with ums1 I get better results. It recognizes the buttons, it recognizes the...

It's probably not a delay in processing of the table, but you need to remember there might be active states in the firewall that are allowing an existing session to continue (keep state). A block rule only applies to new connection attempts (for...

I think it starts with "Correct Use of Shovel" classes.

Oh, is that where you get Medium Studies degree?

I'll provide an example. if ( myvalue == something ) { printf("Hurray!\n"); } else { printf("Not the same\n"); } Notice how the printf lines within the if .. else .. are neatly indented? Doesn't change how the program works (it will if it...

wrong, *this* is what a gold mine looks like

Install textproc/fzf. It's super small, has no dependencies, so why not try it out? Because what you are describing is exactly what fzf does. Really, just give it a shot.

Ah, the good old XOR "encryption". Another favorite, and simple enough to implement, is ROT13 😁

It's probably not a delay in processing of the table, but you need to remember there might be active states in the firewall that are allowing an existing session to continue (keep state). A block rule only applies to new connection attempts (for...

Many, many years ago, when I was still attending school, we had to create a flowchart (or Nassi–Shneiderman diagram) before typing a single letter of code. I still do this, it definitely helps to get some semblance of structure, especially when...

I have a table used to block abusive IPs from accessing my server, but there seems to be a delay of a minute or so after the table is updated with pfctl -t tablename -T add before incoming packets get dropped. Is there a way to shorten the...

Is there a university sporting a Department of Post Mortem Communications?

EoL since February 2025. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/topics-about-unsupported-freebsd-versions.40469/

No, scrub only fixes problems in dara, in occupied blocks. Many of these panics with damaged zpools that we are seeing are concerned with free space.

Version text $ pciconf -lv ... vgapci0@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x030000 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x1916 subvendor=0x1025 subdevice=0x111e vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = 'Skylake-U GT2 [HD Graphics 520]' class...

You might need to fiddle with kern.evdev.rcpt_mask # sysctl -d kern.evdev.rcpt_mask kern.evdev.rcpt_mask: Who is receiving events: bit0 - sysmouse, bit1 - kbdmux, bit2 - mouse hardware, bit3 - keyboard hardware Because the man page mentioned...

Comparing to the logs with version 12-STABLE to the case the kernel logs reveal something like this: Sep 7 00:22:21 n kernel: drmn0: <drmn> on vgapci0 Sep 7 00:22:21 n kernel: vgapci0: child drmn0 requested pci_enable_io Sep 7 00:22:21 n...

Thanks, I installed xf86-input-evdev, but still does not work.

There are scam/joke degree mills. A coworker got two from one in florida, one for Ufology and one for Angel Studies. Be careful, however, he got himself investigated for illegaly using an academic grade. Getting away from that costs money for...

iichid shouldn't be needed for this one. It's typically only used on laptops when the touchpad is connected with I2C instead of USB. hw.usb.usbhid.enable is enabled by default on 15. hid and hidbus are included in the GENERIC kernel, don't need...

Now comes the hard part. Planning and structuring for the next program. Deciding what the program will do and how without writing code.

We really need a ZFS fsck instead of having Claude come up with kernel patches to do the same job on the fly. Good job on solving it.

Thanks very much to all for your replies and suggestions. Replying in one big message: For clarity, I'm happy with the ISO boot support that gergeskirolos59 mentioned, though in that case I expect I might need to do a bit more work to configure...

In the end I solved, with some help from LLM Claude, applying the following patch over FreeBSD release/15.1.0-p2 (aadd58ddd): diff --git a/sys/contrib/openzfs/module/zfs/zio.c b/sys/contrib/openzfs/module/zfs/zio.c index f94edf20a..47eac2fcc...

vm's have kvm console at hetzner via js but bare metals don't. you can run freebsd but you have no serial console.if some hardware fails or you make a config mistake / bothced upgrade and the system won't go multiuser what do you do ? your...

What exactly do you mean by "they don't support FreeBSD"? With dedicated HW it's up to you what you install there. You have an option to upload your custom ISO there too (you can run your own OS too). VMs are, as far as I know, qemu+kvm so it's...

iichid shouldn't be needed for this one. It's typically only used on laptops when the touchpad is connected with I2C instead of USB. hw.usb.usbhid.enable is enabled by default on 15. hid and hidbus are included in the GENERIC kernel, don't need...

manitu.de also added vservers to their portfolio a while ago. I've had/have several root servers and web hosting packages there over the years and also always recommend them to friends/family etc when asked for a good web/mailhoster. I've worked...

2026Q3 has 595.84, latest has 595.99.02. In case you were wondering where the difference came from. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/x11/nvidia-driver/Makefile.version?h=2026Q3...

I bought in Ebay the touchpad Seenda, Model MOS400. Here an image: https://www.amazon.ae/Touchpad-Trackpad-Precision-Multi-Touch-Navigation/dp/B0CT8VZ3V2 It has two physical buttons below. When I insert it, I get: ugen0.3: <Hailuck Co.,Ltd...

That's a pkg config file, not ports. There's a difference. Repositories changed name between 14 and 15. FreeBSD -> FreeBSD-ports and FreeBSD-kmods -> FreeBSD-ports-kmods. I always forget to rename them too.