Latest activity

Ugh, although I would like to do conspiracy stuff as for sure Microsoft did them (a plenty) I don't think they had power or the need to do anything of the sorts. There are many angles to this story. I think these are most relevant - BASIC is...

startx is not a user so I don't know how that got in there. Do you have a file in your /home marked .xinitrc? ls -l .xinitrc

That was all it took, my user is “in business “! So I should switch to root and rm -f ~/.xinitrc.

If the user has not configured a /home/user/.xinitrc file, startx defaults to x11-wm/twm. You may have a /root/.xinitrc configured for root user, you can try copying it into the user's home directory and try startx again. cp /root/.xinitrc...

People would soon realise that having a transparent monitor would have little use. You would have to place it in front of a very blank (preferably white) wall, to be able to make out any of the text on it.

It's not from heavy metal standpoint but glam/hair rock/metal standpoint. I've skimmed through the video, it's a compilation of Loudwire's "Wikipedia: fact or fiction" series where they bring a notable/famous musician and run down their Wikipedia...

All MS BASIC interpreters stayed with legacy SVGA while Windows software was already into much higher display standards and 3d accelleration. I think it was an artificial limitation to avoid superior graphics that's developed at home for almost...

siladi The luggable :) I wonder why there is not such a modern concept. No battery saves a ton of space and thermal emission even today. Why not make a bigger better laptop in the same form factor, with a tiny cellphone battery in it just to...

We're also shoring up the rate-limiting features (source tracking rules) in pf.

Microsoft kept anything else than SVGA from it except for Wiindows development because they wanted the entire spot for themselves. Now we're stuck with remote fileservers and closed graphics drivers as gaming solution because playing games...

"Hey, ChatGPT, I read-------"Ha, ha, ha, what a load! that AI will erase-----------How shall this work?" humankind."

Note that, in this way, owner and access permissions are kept as-is for root. So if it has, for example, 600 (rw-------), the user cannot use copied ~/.xinitrc. You need to chmod to allow the user to read it as root.

I've double posted too, but mostly OK.' EDIT: It took 11 seconds (timed with going 1, one thousand, two one thousand, etc.) with three lines on upper right on waterfox, using Spectrum in Manhattan as ISP.

Same for building packages with Poudriere, same process. Upgrade the base OS first, this is a major version upgrade so run freebsd-update install twice (to update the kernel and userland). Then start your poudriere/synth bulk builds (make sure...

It's fine. Just try some of the Chinese LLMs. They are the block that is cheaper. But keep in mind that even the $20 are heavily subsidized. It costs the AI company way more than they charge if you use your subscription to the max.

The current www/chromium (chromium-152.0.7977.75_2) suffers from an upstream bug (which should be fixed in 153.0.8010.47). When launched from a desktop environment (button / menu), it does not switch into the correct scaling mode to react to...

So it was some immature childish mind ("script kiddy") who did it just because it could, to gave it a believe in having some power, while in fact it was nothing but a savage toddler smashing things. The fact this forums is of no political...

Yep, somebody played with an Internet-facing fork-bomb.

Even before the DDoS the forums regularly got hammered, backend database gets somewhat overloaded causing the whole site to respond slow. Especially if you're trying to post something. Should be fine now, but it tends to come in waves. Though...

Is that an actual retro wired mouse with a ball underneath I see?

Yeah, I see it also on Firefox. I haven't tried another browser though.

Just to clear one thing up: these weren't AI/LLM crawlers, or crawlers per se. These were bots requesting the front page (GET /) and immediately closing the connection to do it again and again and again. This was done by several thousand IP...

With flaming swords and pitchforks.

Unfortunately such large machines are difficult to own unless you have space dedicated for it. Good thing it wasn't dumped or price scalped and it found a good new owner :) I learned BASIC as my first language on the M19, GW-BASIC in...

Interesting comparison in cases there. The DB4 is elegant, understated, and quiet. It is something that just sits there out of the way and does its job. Very much like FreeBSD. The AZZA case is unique, eye-catching, and definitely gives a...

The Micro Lab (6502 1MHz) was an Everyday Practical Electronics Magazine (UK) project for the Teach-In '93 magazine series during 1993. My actual first computer was a 1982 Commodore VIC-20 on which I learned BASIC and 6502 machine language. Ahh...

I learned BASIC, FORTRAN4, and LSI11 assembler on the PDP series. Really good machines for that time period. I held on to the nostalgia factor of them until the late 90s, but eventually the tech just became too obsolete to invest resources...

A few years ago I gave away a DEC PDP-11/03. I believe the new owner has it working again. That was an interesting computer.

Just remember: "All your base are belong to us!"

For a number of weeks, and unrelated to the recent DDOS attack, when I post a reply in a thread there are three rotating vertical lines on the top right of the page and a delay of up to 30 seconds before my reply is posted. Could this be an issue...

And actively pursued.

GROK and Lenovo Ideapad 305 lead me to the 'Novo button' through which I was able to remove secure boot. Entering the BIOS menu via the keyboard did not show this option.

Mr Blue Sky View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXX834KZ9sA

Bob.. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOFu6b3w6c0&

You seem to imply that you want to keep Windows 10 and also install FreeBSD. You might like to consider using Hyper-V, VirtualBox, or VMware Player on Windows to run a virtualised FreeBSD client under Windows. This would avoid the issues of...

Same for building packages with Poudriere, same process. Upgrade the base OS first, this is a major version upgrade so run freebsd-update install twice (to update the kernel and userland). Then start your poudriere/synth bulk builds (make sure...

Hi, been lurking here for a bit, slowly putting freeBSD on my laptops. 15.1 dropped right into my Thinkpad x270 without a hitch. My older Thinkpad X13 (20T3), a first gen X13, wifi gave a bit of trouble. A chicken/egg problem getting the iwlwifi...

Apple II doesn't have RGB based video but uses NTSC colorburst to simulate colour from the YIQ space, very handy trick when you don't have enough memory to describe every pixel in colour and described to death all over Internet. View...

Read the laptop manual to see how to change the boot device and disable the secure boot.

I would like to install FreeBSD on an old Windows 10 laptop, but not sure how. There is no option for booting from USB, the laptop does not allow the use of a different hard disk other than the one that came with the laptop. I can use Windows...

Thanks, I'm using non-standard configuration for ports. I'll let them build tonight and worry about the rest of the steps tomorrow.

Upgrade implies install. You can but you don't have to locally build packages unless you are using non-standard configurations for ports.

My issue here is with the wording: It doesn't say whether to install them or not. So I don't know what to do .. I'm just sitting at this prompt.

Thus the cause of all your problems. I have as yet to get a correct answer from AI about anything. Use the source, my friend. AI will screw you up every way imaginable. Yes, when moving from one major version to another, all software needs to be...

I'm upgrading from 14.4 to 15.1 and currently on this step: Completing this upgrade requires removing old shared object files. Please upgrade or rebuild all installed 3rd party software (e.g., programs installed with pkg or from the ports tree)...

Been there. Done that

Original article here. Consider this when replying. For Nimish Jain, working on FreeBSD this summer meant getting an up-close look at something he had long been curious about: how large, complex pieces of software work together. A Software...

If you google "lpr print filters middle man gs", the AI popup and the first hit is a howto I posted on this forum. It regurgitates the thread where you parse the *.ppd to set print variables. 50607 I would argue that The appearance of...