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BSD vs Linux
Brandon J. Wandersee’s recent post on the FreeBSD Questions mailling list pointed me to Matthew Fuller‘s BSD vs Linux. Enjoy! You should replace every mention of “CVS”, “CVSup”, and “pkg_*” with “Subversion” (SVN), “SVNup”, and “pkg *”, respectively. I.e., the command pkg_add becomes the command pkg add (with no underscore), etc.
Read More → BSD vs LinuxKBDMUX_DFLT_KEYMAP is available for base/head and base/stable/10
Finally, KBDMUX_DFLT_KEYMAP is available for those of us using keyboard layouts different from the US/UK keyboard layout. This is very handy when running in single-user mode.
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AFRINIC with only two years to go
According to Geoff Huston‘s automated predictions, today is the day where AFRINIC has only two years left before they run out of IPv4 addresses. As time progresses, AFRINIC might hit their Z day sooner. AFRINIC has a webpage of their own on the IPv4 exhaustion within AFRINIC.
Read More → AFRINIC with only two years to goHidden properties in ZFS
I learned ZFS hides certain filesystem and pool properties from normal view. You need to know their names and specify them explicitly to get their values. Use the option -p to get the raw value of the filesystem properties. E.g. zfs get -p createtxg.
Read More → Hidden properties in ZFSTexinfo manuals on A4 paper
Add these three commands in the appropriate .texi file after @end titlepage. The first command selects A4 paper with better margins than the @afourpaper command. The second command turns on page headers suitable for two-sided printing (duplex printing). The third command starts the next chapter on an odd page number.
Read More → Texinfo manuals on A4 paperReplacing drives on AMANDA server
I spent some days last week converting our 32-bit AMANDA server to a 64-bit counterpart using spare but aged hardware. The former AMANDA server ran on very aged hardware in comparison. Going 64-bit also ment turning to ZFS-based storage. Today, I replaced the two 320 GB first generation SATA drives with two 1 TB third […]
Read More → Replacing drives on AMANDA serverUnresponsive Autodesk Revit 2016? Try killing the process running WSCommCntr4.exe
Ref.: http://blogs.rand.com/support/2015/07/revit-2016-hangs-upon-opening-the-software.html.
Read More → Unresponsive Autodesk Revit 2016? Try killing the process running WSCommCntr4.exeStack Overflow and its user unfriendliness towards newcomers
Stack Overflow recently published the results from their “Developer Survey 2016”. I thought about giving them some feedback. I went to the top level, clicked on the feedback link and navigated to their What else should we ask developers? question. Next, I needed to create an account. That being done, it turns out I need […]
Read More → Stack Overflow and its user unfriendliness towards newcomersNetwork Connection Status Indicator (NCSI)
… Windows machines try to request two URLs (www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt and ipv6.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt, the former over IPv4, the latter over IPv6) to ascertain whether a given network is routed to the Internet and if there is a captive portal in the way (NCSI stands for “Network Connection Status Indicator”). Ref.: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/ See also: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2012/12/20/the-network-connection-status-icon/.
Read More → Network Connection Status Indicator (NCSI)Ad for Windows 10 camouflaged as a security update, how low can one sink?
KB3146449 is another update one should avoid installing. From its own description: Updated Internet Explorer 11 capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 And: This update adds functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that lets users learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10.
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