Antranig Vartanian

There are 141 tips in the FreeBSD tips file that is displayed by fortune every time you log into a FreeBSD system. root@geonosis:~ # grep -E '^%' /usr/share/games/fortune/freebsd-tips | wc -l 141 Most of the time, I know the tips very well.

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I can’t sleep.

I started getting into retro computing again, but this time also for phones, so I’m blogging from a BlackBerry phone Let’s see if it works!

There’s a lot of work that needs to be done on Jailer.

Sometimes all I need to do is sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots / \ | grep TimeMachine \ | cut -d .

Sometimes, when I have a long running process on my computer, like scp, rsync or curl I need to know when it’s done, so I don’t check the terminal every minute.

One of the things that makes FreeBSD an amazing operating system is its package manager, pkg(8).

Couple of months ago I got my sister a MacBook Air with the new M4 chip, and she was happier than ever.

A while back I needed to get the input voltage from one of our UPSes, so I used bsnmpwalk(1) to get the information needed and ran it in a script with a loop and sleep.