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I was looking at some old files and found these files containing MMIX assembly code. The first file is a program for converting angles from a single value to sexagesimal notation, and back. The second file is a program for calculating the area of a triangle. I have more MMIX code dating back at least […]

I’ve put WITH_ICONV=yes in my /etc/src.conf file on a few VMs running stable/9, and yes, I got burned. My beloved server named enterprise running stable/9 was also affected. :-/

Are you missing the down-arrow on the right hand side of the URL address field in Opera? That handy piece of GUI element makes it easy to remove entries from the URL history. According to this forum post, you can enable the down-arrow by visiting opera:config#UserPrefs|ShowDropdownButtonInAddressfield. Simply check the checkbox, hit the Save button, and […]

I’m following this thread with great interest, and I wanted to try bootparttest on one of my own computers.

I upgraded some of my virtual machines during my summer holiday. They are all running ZFS, but were neglected for so long that they were still updating their source and ports trees using CVSup. I began pondering how to migrate to Subversion with the least fuzz possible. Luckily, I had anticipated the switch to Subversion, […]

I’ve been experimenting with FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT and an alternative ZFS layout for more than a year. The idea is to have a simple way of switching between boot environments. Thus, you have the opportunity of reverting to a previous boot environment without resorting to snapshots and rollbacks as you would with a sole boot environment. […]

An acquaintant posted on IRC a link to Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog and his post entitled “Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?“. The task should be straightforward: Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print […]

These messages appeared in the kern log file the other day: Jun 21 22:06:06 enterprise kernel: [282015] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 18 38 ce 72 40 0b 00 00 00 00 00 Jun 21 22:06:06 enterprise kernel: [282015] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error Jun 21 22:06:06 enterprise kernel: [282015] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): Retrying command Jun 21 […]

FreeBSD is approaching 20 years! I guess it all depends on what you regard as FreeBSD’s true birth. The baptism, the first commit to the CVS repository, the first release, or something else? The first commit to the CVS repository was done on “Sat Jun 12 14:49:13 1993 UTC”. That’s 20 years and 6 days […]

A brand new Dell Latitude E6530 found its way to my office to be prepared for use for one of my coworkers. I was surprised to learn that the F2 key doesn’t allow you to enter the BIOS Setup. The computer simply freezes and the screen remains black. Just moments prior the firmware showed in […]

dec2dms.mms and tri_area.mms

FreeBSD and WITH_ICONV

Missing the down-arrow on the right hand side of the URL address field in Opera?

bootparttest

Moving ZFS datasets around eases the transition from CVSup to Subversion

Alternative ZFS layout

FizzBuzz

Are one of the disks beginning to fail?

Happy nameday, FreeBSD!

F2 key not working on your Dell Latitude E6530? Try the F12 key and select BIOS Setup instead