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2001. I had four computers I owned at home. Two in the basement, rack-mounted: One was the 4U home server, with three of four disk drives. Did exactly the same thing my current home server does (DNS, DHCP, NFS, Web serving, files, backup). It ran...

I've been searching far and wide for a working xorg.conf [ or set of them ] for such a card as well as the precise directory to put it in and the nvidia driver to load for it. :confused:posting of one would be appreciated. thanks in advance.

I only came across flameshot fairly recently but like it a lot. Just recently it has failed to pop up when I click on its icon in LXDE. In an effort to find out what is wrong, AI suggests running flameshot gui 2>&1. This shows W520# flameshot...

Remember always the last one was somehow corrupted. Floppy disks didn't like tram drives. But the pain of setting the reading head in cassette player on Sinclair or Commodore or Atari was really bad. Every cassette had different position to read...

By necessity, because us street walking buggers are often the only ones being there to tax. Mercedes Benz, for example, pays less tax than the cleaning lady that works the corridors. When you add up all the "social safety abuse" for a year you...

Never had that or a zipdrive. I used minidisc and VCR tapes as digital storage but most was floppies and fastlynx serial copy.

Check out locate(1) https://wiki.freebsd.org/locate

What are you a savage? We had LS-120 superdisks by then.

In general terms I think we do most of the same things now that we did back in the early 2000's. I know I do. In broad general terms it was work and play. We can now do stuff with more pixels using less volume and some of this stuff is now faster...

SUSE is not for sale. It's a German company. MicroOS is openSUSE. SLE Micro is indeed used for containers. SLES will continue to support traditional workloads.

T-Aoki Well of course but he said you couldn't do that with Windows PCs and I'm showing that's not true. In fact, that machine sits in my basement and earlier this year still boots into 9.0

My Gateway PC was running FreeBSD 5.0 in 2004. It tried to install 1.0 a couple of years before that but I didn't try too hard

Speaking of music again - sample playing on a PC wasn't possible. The sample player for Piano was the Kurzweil keyboard, which had lots of custom chips and very clever sample playing. Of course you could always buy a Synclavier or a Fairlight...

In 1991 we had CAD for laying out printed circuit boards. I guess not the same thing as architecture or tooling but it did layout multi-layer boards for the system I designed. I guess it wasn't a PC, either.

Storing 50MB on not 20 floppy disks was progress.

We made movies for film at SGI 40 years ago. (Jurassic Park) And Pixar made movies, too.

Depends in the car. You may well look at 10h or so. I was planning to go to the polish baltic coast, as I am in northern Berlin.

Yes, I suspect it is happening in some places and it will only worsen.

Good intention, a lot of people are sure saying the same. But after a while, soon or later, they will begin trusting A.I., and begin to create code with A.I. that they do not understand. I suspect, it is inevitable, and it will be a tragedy.

Good intention, a lot of people are sure saying the same. But after a while, soon or later, they will begin trusting A.I., and begin to create code with A.I. that they do not understand. I suspect, it is inevitable, and it will be a tragedy.

Several audio processing things come to mind. 25 years ago you had DAWs, instruments (software synthesizers) and effects (filters). But you could only use those that had minimal CPU usage. Today's instruments and effects are of a different...

Thanks. You can also say the truth ...

Hrudor, you're one of the best 😊

Running LLMs. Even if they existed back then you couldn't run them at home.

There is a button for 'thanks' and 'like', not for 'do not like' ...

You did not understand / ask google or claude, what the program does. It is not writing SQL in C, it is extending sqlite3's SQL with three new functions: expr, jim, jimv.

We could talk about politics all day, sitting around with something to drink. This ain't the place. Also, consider me having the short straw this weekend and I have to watch here and also watch my kids. That's not funny. But if someone has a...

Yes, it works as expected. You can copy and paste it in claude / google, then ask: what it does, how to compile it, how to use it with the sqlite3 command line, how to load it, how to use it, ask for examples, explain the program line for line...

I asked claude with one or two lines to make a program with a specific functionality and got the below lines, I made only aesthetic changes. You may ask claude or google what it does, how to compile it. Claude took less that 30 seconds. How...

Regarding "How to look for files on your system very quickly", FreeBSD has a locate facility to "locate" files from a created file database instantaneously, basically what you are proposing with your custom aproache. The database is recreated on...

Good luck trying on. You're on a stage now. 😎

Argeument? I say what I see. Jap jap about government authority and glorificatiom of Violence. Disgusting...

I see.. Good reason. :)

bbcode seems useful

Can we tune down on the politics, please?

Really? That's primitive fascist rhetoric. Nevermind. 😑

You might consider using bhyve. In my experience, it's able to install most Linux distributions, and I suspect that the ones that gave me problems are my fault, not bhyve's. I use vm-byve which automates a lot of it. My own page...

After updating my system to Plasma 6.7.5 i get finally a working SDDM + plasma-wayland session.

Incredible string band, playing the Empty Pocket Blues. :) View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XuKKTtg-Cs

Summertime... great cover version View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAahY8_wqVM

I doubt it. We are more or less obligated to using USA ecosystems on our smartphones and all municipal offices are all-in MS cloud including personal financial and biometric information. I expect this initiative to fail because people will find...

Uncle jack View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iEoUdW74KU

Take up thy stethoscope and walk View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GqLSZP2Zw

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM

Don't. If it isn't plaintext, don't enter it here. You have got answers on how to get plaintext.

what about this textproc/odt2txt ?

If you have the system on ZFS, you can always make a boot environment. Then you can revert to what's working while you try to figure out what went wrong. As for Nvdia, I find that I frequently have to upgrade ports to the latest, then build the...

aint -printf a gnu thing ? on freebsd you do find . -type f |xargs stat -f "%Sa %z %N"

Being Dutch, I don't trust this. Something's wrong wih this narration of OS choice to NixOS and its apparent adoption. Is NixOS able to compile itself from source without any requirement of binary data? That's a deciding factor. If not, they are...

$ uname -rs FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p9 $ find $HOME -name .profile -printf "%t %s %p\n" find: -printf: unknown primary or operator FreeBSD is not Linux...