Trouble Shooting Freebsd Booting with Lines Full of "^[2~"

[Amit Yaron]

Cause: the key "Insert" is stuck.


Solution: lift the key gently with a sharp object you can insert there, 
For example, a tooth pick.


If you have accidentally removed the key, it is not the end of the world.

Gopherpedia - An Online Encyclopedia for GUI-less Users

[Amit Yaron]

If you are from some reasons GUI-less, there are still gui-less internet 
browsers you can use.


I use lynx, downloadable at 'https://ilynxnvisible-island.net'.

Not every website can be viewed in lynx, because they may contain 
javascript code and stuff you better view with modern web browsers.


However, the gopher protocol (port 70) is still alive, and a great 
encyclopedia site can be found using the protocol. The encyclopedia's 
address is:



   gopher://gopherpedia.com


If you use lynx, don't forget the protocol prefix 'gopher://' because 
lynx default protocol is one of "http" and "https".

Re: Mailing Lists

[Amit Yaron]

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Zoom for FreeBSD

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Time to Upgrade Qt5

[Amit Yaron]

Unfortunately, tools such as VLC and VirtualBox don't tell us when it's 
time to upgrade Qt5.

I found it today after I'd upgraded VirtualBox and got messages such as:

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain:
dlopen("/usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed:
/usr/local/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so: Undefined symbol
"_ZNK6QColor6darkerEi@Qt_5"

Having checked how up-to-date is Qt5 using:

pkg version

and upgraded some packages, now both tools work fine.

So, I believe it should be added to the post-install notifications and 
the output of "pkg desc".




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The Location of "lynx"

[Amit Yaron]

I think lynx is a great browser these days because it is GUI-less.
Yesterday I tried to browse "sqlite.org" with it, but failed with the 
error message:


  Alert!: This client does not contain support for HTTPS URLs

So I searched a solution, and found a great advice to check with "ldd"
if the product had been compiled with "openssl".
It had not, and I decided to reinstall it, but failed because "ja-lynx"
installs to the same location.
What does the "ja" stand for? Japanese. I recalled that I'd installed it
from "/usr/ports/japanese/lynx" because this is the output you get by 
running


  whereis lynx

But it is a web browser, so it should be found under "/usr/ports/www".
I installed it from there, and it can open URLs with the scheme "https://;.



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Re: zipgrep fix

[Amit Yaron]

Hi,

I fixed a bug with "zipgrep" on my computer today, so I will not get 
"unzip: illegal option -- -" anymore.

The invalid option was "-p-L", so I changed it to "-p -L".

It is a shell script.

Notified the developers on http://infozip.sourceforge.net/zip-bug.html

Have a great day!



On 27.11.2019 15:08, Amit Yaron wrote:


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zipgrep fix

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Do You Hear Your Playbacks Well?

[Amit Yaron]

If you want to change the maximum volume of what you hear through your 
speakers or earphones, try the 'mixer' command.


  mixer speaker 100:100

Will set the left-volume and right-volume of your speakers/earphones to 100%

To see all the setting, just type:

  mixer

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Using Orage to Manage Events and Tasks

[Amit Yaron]

Thanks Firefox for suggesting Orage as the tool for opening calendar 
files instead of my mail client.

It is great!
Now, it should be active in order for the alarm to be sounded or seem.
The little icon in the panel is not enough.
To run it you should activate the Orage Calendar. You can run it 
automatically via XFCE4 SAession Setting, by adding the command 'Orage'.


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Re: To Upgrade Python Libraries, Use "pip"

[Amit Yaron]

Well,
In the port tree you can find the same version of the 
package(py-matplotlib for example) for both python2 and python3.

I suggest taking Vincent's advice to use a virtual environment.

On 30.7.2019 14:21, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote:

But will those be tested as compatible with the broader set of packages or 
ports? That’s the dilemma.




On Jul 30, 2019, at 22:02, Amit Yaron  wrote:

I prefer it to the ports becaue with "pip" I can get the most advanced versions. You 
can even upgrade "pip if you type:
  pip install --upgrade pip


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Re: To Upgrade Python Libraries, Use "pip"

[Amit Yaron]

Thanks,
Virtual environments are very useful.

On 30.7.2019 14:36, Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas wrote:



On 30/07/2019 14:02, Amit Yaron wrote:

I prefer it to the ports becaue with "pip" I can get the most advanced
versions. You can even upgrade "pip if you type:
   pip install --upgrade pip



I'd recommend using python virtual environments if you want to use pip,
that way you can have the latest for your own work and stick with the
ports versions for the system.

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html

Vince


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To Upgrade Python Libraries, Use "pip"

[Amit Yaron]

I prefer it to the ports becaue with "pip" I can get the most advanced 
versions. You can even upgrade "pip if you type:

  pip install --upgrade pip


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Making VLC Play an Audio CD

[Amit Yaron]

Do it if you don't have '/dev/cdrom', and your cd drive is in '/dev/cd0':

Edit your ${HOME}/.config/vlc/vlcrc
Find the line '#cd-audio=/dev/cdrom'.
Uncomment it by deleting the leading '#'.
Change the variable value to '/dev/cd0'.
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I've Learned a New Thing: pkg info

[Amit Yaron]

Thanks to The FreeBSD forum 
(https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/attempting-to-use-vagrant-with-virtualbox-backend-but-seeing-errors.53951/). 
Now, I know better how to get info about packages installed on my machine.

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This Article Helped Me Today

[Amit Yaron]

I wanted to mount a digital camera, but got 'failed to open fuse device: 
No such file or directory' because 'fuse.ko' was not loaded.
I wanted it to be loaded at boot time. In the article, I found that what 
I need to define is not "fuse_enable" in /etc/rc.conf, but "Fuse_load" 
in /boot/loader.conf

Following is the article:
http://kflu.github.io/2018/02/03/2018-02-03-freebsd-ntfs/

Though it is about NTFS and I wanted to mount a digital camera, it is 
useful.

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If You Use LMGTFY to Answer a Question

[Amit Yaron]

Sit back and enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNdZxjx3Bk


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Re: Wow! Microsoft Loves Linux and Open Source!

[Amit Yaron]

On 28.5.2019 0:26, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:

Good morning from Singapore,



I did a Google search on "Microsoft Loves Linux".


Cool! I guess because of that we can skype.



Google search URL:



https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+loves+linux



Tons of results show up. Lots of good reads.


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FreeBSD Merchandise

[Amit Yaron]

I think that buying some merchandise is also a way to donate to the 
project. I can use a shirt.

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Does Anybody Use A Portable Scanner?

[Amit Yaron]

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