New server hardware
This server got a major upgrade at the end of June. The last time such a thing happened was back in early 2012.
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Just to remind myself that spaces are allowed before the equals sign. FreeBSD Install=’/boot/kernel/kernel vfs.root.mountfrom=cd9660:/dev/iso9660/13_0_CURRENT_POWERPC64_CD’
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Disable notifications in Google Chrome
Are you tired of desktop notifications in Google Chrome? Navigate to chrome://settings/content/notifications, and disable “Sites can ask to send notifications” near the top of the tab. Review the “Allow” section at the bottom. Click on the stacked dots button next to the entries that keep nagging you, and select “Block” or “Remove”.
Read More → Disable notifications in Google ChromePython 2.7.18 on FreeBSD
Update 2020-05-06 Python 2.7.18 was officially added to the ports collection in r534040. I didn’t even bother searching for a PR on the matter, and sure enough, PR 245776 exists and did a more thorough job than my own efforts. While Python 2.x.y is EoL, Python 2.7.18 was released a week ago, on 2020-04-20.
Read More → Python 2.7.18 on FreeBSDBuilding devel/bitkeeper on stable/12 using ports-mgmt/synth
Building devel/bitkeeper on stable/12 using ports-mgmt/synth isn’t straight forward as of r532246.
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net/ntopng and net/geoipupdate
I’ve been experimenting with net/ntopng and net/geoipupdate. The former comes with a shell script, ntopng-geoip2update.sh, which is stuck in the past. Instead, run these commands, creating the necessary symlinks:
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exec=on for /usr/src after base/head r359260
Update 2020-03-30: r359426 fixed this issue. We may again set exec=off or have noexec set in our /etc/fstab. If you mount /usr/src as noexec or have set the ZFS exec property to off, now is the time to allow executables to be run. r359260 added contrib/kyua/doc/manbuild.sh, which is run as part of make buildworld in […]
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Additional floating point extensions for RISC-V
The RV{32,64,128}{F,D,Q} extensions are great on their own, but I propose a set of new extensions to coexist with the current ones.
Read More → Additional floating point extensions for RISC-VRecompile sysutils/htop after upgrading to base/head r358063
Somewhere between r357572 and r358062 something changed so dramatically in base/head that sysutils/htop didn’t display anything useful other than CPU and memory usage.
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ISO CIFS SR inaccessible after upgrade to Citrix Hypervisor 8.1.0
After upgrading Citrix Hypervisor 8.0.0 to 8.1.0, all ISO CIFS SR became inaccessible. The CIFS shares are held by our Samba server and they are available read-only without any authentication. Manually adding a new ISO CIFS SR revealed that the username must be specified as \ (blackslash), indicating no domain name and no username. No […]
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