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www.freebsd.org 10mo ago

FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2025

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twitter.com 1y ago

Reddit Is Down

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www.apple.com 1y ago

iPhone 16 Pro

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www.freebsd.org 3y ago

FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2022

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www.freebsd.org 3y ago

FreeBSD 12.4

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Chernobyl Disaster – An Inside Look – 3D

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www.ft.com 3y ago

Crypto is the ‘commoditisation of populist anger, gambling and crime’

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developer.apple.com 3y ago

Apple Design Awards

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Grigori Perelman – mathematician who refused to accept $1.000.000 prize

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www.freebsd.org 3y ago

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Third Quarter 2022

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

The Commodordion – C64 Accordion

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Rapatronic Camera

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www.bellingcat.com 3y ago

A GRU Agent Charmed Her Way into NATO Circles in Italy

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Entangled officers of Euler: A quantum solution to impossible problem

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www.freebsd.org 4y ago

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report First Quarter 2022

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ask.audio 4y ago

Dave Smith – creator of MIDI – passes away

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www.freebsd.org 4y ago

FreeBSD 13.1

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www.theatlantic.com 4y ago

„We can only be enemies”

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Project Pigeon

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lakshmanok.medium.com 4y ago

I Left Google

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www.digitalcameraworld.com 4y ago

Yosemite – Waterfall “On Fire”

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

8-bit CPU control logic

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www.nationalgeographic.com 4y ago

Fossils Discovered in Australia

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www.freebsd.org 4y ago

FreeBSD 12.3 Released

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www.chemistryworld.com 4y ago

Nobel in Chemistry

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www.macrumors.com 4y ago

10th Anniversary of Steve Jobs' Passing

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www.apple.com 4y ago

Apple Unveils New iPhone 13

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arstechnica.com 4y ago

Apple Makes the iPhone 13 Official

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

Stack Overflow sold to tech investor Prosus for $1.8B

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Live: Annular Solar Eclipse – June 10, 2021

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FreeBSD 12.4 4 years ago

You don't get telnetd enabled by default. To get it working you need to explicitly start it. No idea why you're talking about it here.

FreeBSD 12.4 4 years ago

Binary upgrades on FreeBSD are fine. I rarely compile my own kernel these days, but even when I did needed a custom kernel I never had any issues. It just works, For me FreeBSD and OpenBSD needs much less maintenance than Linux.

I'll try :) Generally speaking focal length is a characteristics of a lens which does not change, if you use smaller sensor you're just "cropping" what given focal length would render. For example if you'd have, let's say 100mpix camera and 24mm lens it would give you different perspective than 85mm evn if you would crop 24mm image to have same angle of view as 85mm.

If you have an APS-C camera, which is quite common, then you want a ~32mm lens, and if you use M4/3 like I do, then you want a 25mm lens, to achieve this same effect.

It's not the same effect, far from it. It's different focal length, that will render different image.

I'm an avid runner (50-70km/week) and I've been running for 5 years. I run long distances on trail.

Seems that although it increases performance and stamina for me it also brings my heart rate up, which is not desirable in most cases since I'm training ~80% of the time in zone 2 (aerobic). At given pace I can have few bits higher HR when caffeinated (between 5 and 10 bpm) which means that I need go go slower in order to stay in zone 2.

For me it's a tool that I'm using during races. Also worth noting is that caffeine works on me really well.

I disagree. I used to be an AIX administrator for well over a decade, got certified in basically everything related to AIX being on the side hard core FreeBSD user (still have some servers). In my opinion AIX is indeed different, but rock solid and fun to work with.

I wish FreeBSD was more popular. I run it on my personal servers for more than a decade non-stop. I do have currently one FreeBSD at home which works as my NAS/backup server/whatever I need it to do plus two remote machines (mail/www/db/ns running in jails). About a year ago I migrated one FreeBSD to OpenBSD because it's just an advanced router.

I took conservative approach and I always run -RELEASE version, not even -STABLE. I'm glad Klara is evaluating -CURRENT branch, good read.

Btw, once - several years ago I bought an new system and network card was not supported in the -RELEASE branch, so I took the driver from -CURRENT, compiled and loaded as kernel module. Worked flawlessly :)

Yes, I agree with that. Recently I've switched my FreeBSD router to OpenBSD, getting it running is trivial and for backups - just few files needs to be rsyncd to my backup machine and that's it.

I'd say it's mostly a matter of energy and time you wish to put into becoming a successful entrepreneur. My experience tells me that first two-three years is a grind, then you can loosen that regime a bit, depending on what you want to achieve. If you're ok with making more (like x1.5 - 2.0 times more) than when employed you can relax and settle on 8-10h a day, if not - real benefits come later, but I think you'll need to hire somebody anyways.

I use jails for years, the only thing which is painful are upgrades from ports for all the jails. It's time consuming. Poudriere helps but the whole thing is far from ideal :(

I can't recall the software, but few years ago there was a famous typo in the update script, namely a space after '/usr' in the rm -fr command which effectively removed whole /usr. Does anybody remember what that was?

I also had some issues with PPPoE, for some reason it did not worked for me, then suddenly it started to work with the very same config. That was very weird, but it still works fine.

     shark# cat /etc/hostname.pppoe0                                                                                                                                                    
     inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 NONE \
     pppoedev em0 authproto chap \
     authname '<username>' authkey '<my_password>' up
     dest 0.0.0.1
     !/sbin/route delete default
     !/sbin/route add default -ifp pppoe0 0.0.0.1
     shark# cat /etc/hostname.em0 
     up
     shark#

To extend space in any filesystem in the root volume group on AIX you need space in /tmp. Years ago while working for some major bank I proposed to create such dummy file in /tmp exactly for the reason of extending filesystem. It saved us several times :)