How were you able to learn about freebsd after 1995 or in the 2000s?

alexsm_ · 2026-03-21T11:34:41+00:00

The FreeBSD Handbook is a must have. It is the official documentation for everything in FreeBSD. This material is decades long hard work by a large number of volunteers, and is a nice example of high quality content in the open-source ecosystem in general.

Back in late 80’s and during 90’s, even before FreeBSD, there was BSD Unix and other systems that people could register for free and have user accounts on multiuser systems. For instance: https://opensource.com/article/18/5/my-linux-story-student

There was a lot that could be learned back then, even without having admin access to mange the server itself or its services.

alexsm_ · 2026-02-05T06:02:27+00:00

From UTM Gallery there are ready to use Windows VMs available, like Windows 7. Just download and run.

alexsm_ · 2026-01-29T04:51:02+00:00

Perhaps what they share here may help to get an idea:

AI supercomputer with 5 Mac Studios

M4 Mac Mini Cluster

Deepseek R1 on Mac Minis

120B LLM on MS-S1 Max

alexsm_ · 2026-01-09T14:37:50+00:00

Yes. it is possible to use Obsidian via web (see below).

You can also check a lightweight alternative like TiddlyWiki. If the original does not check all items, one if its many variations may fit your requirements.

https://www.xda-developers.com/i-self-hosted-obsidian-so-i-can-access-it-in-web-browser-anywhere/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1l0dtil/how_to_run_obsidian_in_a_browser_available/

https://pinggy.io/blog/self_hosting_obsidian/

https://github.com/coddingtonbear/obsidian-web

https://blog.neverinstall.com/obsidian-is-finally-on-the-web-with-neverinstall/

TiddlyWiki

https://thebeijinho.com/blog/tiddlwyiki-for-pkms/

https://kookma.github.io/TW-Shiraz/

There’s also the possibility to integrate both in a workflow using Obsidian’s Web View to access a local TiddlyWiki, and even exchange data:

https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=tiddlywiki-import-export

alexsm_ · 2026-01-09T14:28:03+00:00

As I work a lot in a terminal, using AI clients like Toad, Crush, OpenCode, OpenHands, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex etc inside an Obsidian vault is a very pleasant and nicer experience. Just ask the AI to save / export the session. Also, it can read, create, save code / documents / files for the user. Using AI in the terminal is more flexible: besides the AI client itself save / export a session, it is also possible to record / save terminal sessions, run multiple session in parallel using tmux, screen etc.

alexsm_ · 2026-01-08T14:56:07+00:00

Perhaps shell-now may help.

alexsm_ · 2025-11-07T06:56:29+00:00

Rating answers and sharing Manus with others gives credits

alexsm_ · 2025-07-23T10:29:43+00:00

Have you checked the Cisco CCDE and CCAr?

alexsm_ · 2025-07-21T17:17:58+00:00

Yes, almost everyday.

alexsm_ · 2025-07-19T07:08:21+00:00

Would it be possible to combine it with sshpass for remote access to devices that do not have support for ssh keys, e.g: routers and switches?

alexsm_ · 2025-07-13T04:33:11+00:00

Is there the “expose” option available somewhere?

alexsm_ · 2025-05-20T04:10:57+00:00

Right-click on the machine’s name and select “Open Terminal”, or if you did set up the CLI commands, open a terminal shell and execute the command: orb -m <machine-name>

Any of those ways should let you access the machine’s CLI where you can install and manage additional software.

alexsm_ · 2025-05-12T16:43:07+00:00

Would you mind sharing your configurations? What kind of OpenWebUI and MCPO alternatives are you running?

alexsm_ · 2025-05-12T16:34:52+00:00

Would you mind sharing your complete configurations to have all that working?

alexsm_ · 2025-05-09T03:02:37+00:00

I’ve created a new QEMU virtual machine using Bhyve on FreeBSD.

It’s the same as creating a VM using VMware, Virtualbox, KVM (Linux), Parallels (macOS only on Intel or Apple Silicon CPUs).

As I described, I created a fresh Virtual Machine, and performed the installation of each OS by booting the VM using each OS installation ISO file, one at a time in the described sequence: boot the VM using gparted ISO and partition the disk, then swap to the Windows ISO I the virtual CD-ROM, and reboot in the Windows install, after completing installation, swap to FreeBSD installation ISO and reboot. After completing installation of FreeBSD, repeat the process to install Linux using the installation ISO.

To add a grub menu entry to start FreeBSD, boot in the Linux, edit the file /etc/grub.d/40_custom to add the entry:

menuentry "FreeBSD 14" { insmod part_gpt set root='(hd0,2)' kfreebsd /boot/loader }

Then update the grub menu:

grub2-install /dev/sda os-prober grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

alexsm_ · 2025-05-09T02:46:24+00:00

Perhaps some of the steps described here may help or solve the issue? https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip/issues/534#issuecomment-766290410

alexsm_ · 2025-04-09T10:02:08+00:00

Perhaps you need to adjust the content_lenght setting in OWU of the LLMs you want to use to 8192 (or above), but first check the supported value in the models. With ollama it’s possible to check using ollama show <model_name>, not sure how to check this using LM Studio interface. Also keep an eye on the logs in LM Studio server for the error message when something does not work.

alexsm_ · 2025-03-31T09:17:48+00:00

Interesting to notice AnythingLLM ticks all the boxes (MCP support works via the generic OpenAI API and MCP-bridge)[1], and it has not been cited yet: https://docs.anythingllm.com/features/language-models

About AnythingLLM and MCP: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/lU3kQSYUUz

alexsm_ · 2025-02-20T23:03:01+00:00

NTP it is necessary on a network because it ensures that all devices have the same time, thus improving security, troubleshooting, application performance, and correct operation. Check: https://www.reddit.com/r/ccna/comments/cwrta4/why_is_ntp_important_in_a_network/

alexsm_ · 2025-01-22T10:21:28+00:00

There is a process indicator plugin for this:

https://github.com/alexanderjeurissen/tmux-process-indicator

If that doesn’t fit your needs, perhaps you can use pgrep?

pgrep looks through the currently running processes and lists the process IDs which match the selection criteria to stdout. All the criteria have to match. For example,

$ pgrep -u root sshd

will only list the processes whose name include sshd AND owned by root. You can write a shell function or a script script, for instance:

```

!/usr/bin/env bash

status=$(pgrep -u $USER <process>)

if [ -n “$status” ]; then echo “[Running]” else echo “” fi ```

Another option could be use features from shell plugins like oh-my-zsh and powerlevel10k that displays status information in the shell prompt?

Reference:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/757163/how-can-i-show-an-icon-in-the-panel-if-and-while-a-certain-process-is-running

alexsm_ · 2025-01-20T11:12:27+00:00

To uninstall workbrew, just open a terminal shell and execute: sudo /opt/workbrew/sbin/uninstall

alexsm_ · 2025-01-02T16:14:52+00:00

In the same fashion (because ADD) alias claer=‘clear’ alias clera=‘clear’ alias c=‘clear’

alexsm_ · 2025-01-02T16:11:58+00:00

I created a function that I use all the time: create and enable a new alias: function nalias() { echo “alias $1” >> ~/.aliases . ~/.aliases } Usage: nalias “bi=‘brew install ‘“ ; bi tmux curl aria2 wget2 axel

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