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I do find that when I don't understand something, if I try to document it, it will help my understanding. Some of these turn out to be useful web pages, many others are just in a file on my main machine, in a directory of text files with titles...

Yep, I learned more in a few weeks of writing my own program than I did in an entire quarter of CS. I was somewhat surprised later when I went through a beginner programming book and I'd covered basically everything in the book via a couple...

I would advise you to stop asking questions now and just proceed. As others have suggested, write a program in some language that prints "Hello, world!". Until you can do that you're only talking about programming and not doing. Forget about...

Hm, it should be on the poles but I don't know how the timezones work there.

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here comes the real software, shanke.sh (the snake game as a shell script) :) #!/bin/sh # shell snake game # license LOL clear echo "use q/a/o/p to move up/down/left/right or run with "vi" arg for vi keys" echo press ENTER read -t 2 crap...

That was real long ago. I hated it because the hand drawing is way too much work and you can't get anything that's a little complex reasonably on paper. Also program structure diagrams, even worse.

That was real long ago. I hated it because the hand drawing is way too much work and you can't get anything that's a little complex reasonably on paper. Also program structure diagrams, even worse.

I’m stuck on v12 with my NAS because it works correctly and I have zero need to tinker with it.

I upgraded from 12 to 13, ended with a black screen and updated immediately to 14. I have no other experience with 13 for saying it was a good release. For me it is upgrading FreeBSD an horrible experience, takes a lot of time and the...

No need to change this. Flowcharts may help, but if you do not need that help, better.

Nobody knows. There's no form of install tracking, much less contiguous use tracking. I can easily believe that the openssl issue alone keeps quite a few people on 13.x.

if you want to have other things in your life (other than FreeBSD for example) balance is important; you must find time for everything you want. One good thing about FreeBSD (and similar interests) is that there isn't a time-limit on follow-up...

But what did you learn if you can't replicate your installation? I say erase it and do it again. Learn and take notes. You should be able to do it the second time in minutes not days. Now that you have the offline packages you need for wifi...

I think we'd all like to add our personal condolences and good wishes, if he's in a mood to hear them.

For an old and long-time daemonforums.org user like myself (and likely loads of us), that's sad and bad news -- most of all for J65nko himself, who posted a lot here in the early days, and one last time in 2022. I'm sure everyone here who knows...

Hi all, I’m the daughter of the daemonforums.org administrator j65nko. I can confirm that my dad is terminally ill and no longer able to maintain the forum. His condition has deteriorated significantly over the past six weeks, and he is...

I think we'd all like to add our personal condolences and good wishes, if he's in a mood to hear them.

For an old and long-time daemonforums.org user like myself (and likely loads of us), that's sad and bad news -- most of all for J65nko himself, who posted a lot here in the early days, and one last time in 2022. I'm sure everyone here who knows...

Hi all, I’m the daughter of the daemonforums.org administrator j65nko. I can confirm that my dad is terminally ill and no longer able to maintain the forum. His condition has deteriorated significantly over the past six weeks, and he is...

Yes. And a job, and kids, and a life.

I do not see anything.

Its also resolves one of the key Cyber Essentials certification concerns. In-house expertise are so difficult to prove when maintaining your own unsupported version of an OS. Delegating this support to a vendor is much more feasible to defend.

But what did you learn if you can't replicate your installation? I say erase it and do it again. Learn and take notes. You should be able to do it the second time in minutes not days. Now that you have the offline packages you need for wifi...

I agree with this, but this sentence fromt he article keeps jumping out at me: LTS is a bridge, not a destination. I guess the devil is in the details, but how long will Klara do the LTS thing for 13? Then for 14, 15? But yes, kudos/good...

This article is possibly a bit of a shameless plug from Klara but does look like a good offering. And the challenges are certainly not overstated. In many ways, people often want to avoid Linux precisely because of the constant upgrade churn...

I think we'd all like to add our personal condolences and good wishes, if he's in a mood to hear them.

For an old and long-time daemonforums.org user like myself (and likely loads of us), that's sad and bad news -- most of all for J65nko himself, who posted a lot here in the early days, and one last time in 2022. I'm sure everyone here who knows...

Hi all, I’m the daughter of the daemonforums.org administrator j65nko. I can confirm that my dad is terminally ill and no longer able to maintain the forum. His condition has deteriorated significantly over the past six weeks, and he is...

I think we'd all like to add our personal condolences and good wishes, if he's in a mood to hear them.

Hi all, I’m the daughter of the daemonforums.org administrator j65nko. I can confirm that my dad is terminally ill and no longer able to maintain the forum. His condition has deteriorated significantly over the past six weeks, and he is...

I have page on this. It uses wireplumber and wpctl, which gives a sink number, which is what I used. https://srobb.net/pipewire.html That's the way I did it, but all I can say is it worked for me.

My brother and I got our first PC in 2004; it was a Pentium-S 66 MHz with 16 MB of RAM, a 1.5 GB HDD, and a 1 MB video card. I also started using FreeBSD in 2011 on an IBM machine with a Pentium III 1 GHz processor, 128 MB of SDRAM, a 200 GB HDD...

amazing piece of vintage tech!

my first pc was not vintage to be honest but i love it and still own it to this day but sadly it shows its age :( Dell Precision T3400 Core 2 quad 4 GB of DRR2 RAM 128MB nvidia card ( i do NOT miss this card at all) 600 GB western digital hdd...

I "payed" with a box of cigars :D Not that big of an Apple fan, but this thing was iconic for the era. Happy to have saved it from the trash gods.

For an old and long-time daemonforums.org user like myself (and likely loads of us), that's sad and bad news -- most of all for J65nko himself, who posted a lot here in the early days, and one last time in 2022. I'm sure everyone here who knows...

Hi all, I’m the daughter of the daemonforums.org administrator j65nko. I can confirm that my dad is terminally ill and no longer able to maintain the forum. His condition has deteriorated significantly over the past six weeks, and he is...

I "payed" with a box of cigars :D Not that big of an Apple fan, but this thing was iconic for the era. Happy to have saved it from the trash gods.

13 was a good release.

I would have titled the article "Why Are So Many Stuck on FreeBSD 13?"

Yes, it's fiction but it's based on the book that makes false claims about things no one believes. So fiction based on supposed true statements known or thought to be fiction themselves. It's one thing to tell me a story about a witch but another...

FreeBSD has been a major interest of mine for two years now. Before I installed it on my PC I read the handbook and lurked the forums for a couple of months. My first install was rough. I couldn't get Wi-Fi working at the time, and ethernet...

Will do a new writeup later. Basically: - linprocfs needs to be moutned and my machine didn't do that at bootup for some reason. That was holding me up - you need to LD_PRELOAD...

Those iMacs were popular to buy 10ish years ago as a prop for internet caffe or something in that vein, but it's all gone now. I have two of Quadras 605 (with Performa model name, forgot which) slim desktop boxes. One doesn't work and needs...

My random list so far: Some fairly cool devkits. One that I am most fond of is for the N64 (the cheaper SGI Indy one, not the 250k SGI Onyx one ;)). Looks a little like this (not my photo) and (also not my photo). PS1 devkit. Unfortunately not...

An AT, a weird frequency 486, a NeXT slab, an O2, a Coppermine, and a G4. I want an Apple II though.

What are you using for managing the dual boot? I'm interested in different solutions, but for now I'm just using two separate drives and use the EFI boot manager of the motherboard.

I have found many things with computing technology, and with FreeBSD in particular, is actually rather simple and easy once you know what to do! It is that last part that often takes work, so I find it very important to keep good notes...

Ask Salman Rushdie.