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A calendar icon 05 Jul 2026 A tag icon emacs it Table of Contents Preamble Calling the Dired File operations Powerful rename Copy/move files like in mc (or Far) Search for something find-name-dired find-grep-dired External programs Dired and photos/images Emacs-specific things Configuration overview Keybindings Hooks Dired-related variables Faces customization Download Notes This blog post is a…
A calendar icon 24 Mar 2026 A tag icon bsd it thinkpad Table of Contents Intercepting functional key presses with devd Processing functional keypresses with shell script ACPI IBM module settings for LEDs (Bonus section) Alert with Morse code and ThinkLight Thinkpad laptops, e.g. mine Thinkpad X220, has a lot of functional keys. Some of them work without any problems — they are passed by the…
A calendar icon 22 Jan 2026 A tag icon bsd it Table of Contents Prerequisites How to switch Prerequisites The XLibre X server exists in the binary repositories since FreeBSD 15.0. So this version of OS or higher is necessary. It is worth to create a ZFS boot environment with beadm before: doas beadm create 15.0-before-xlibre How to switch doas pkg install xlibre In my case I need some additional…
A calendar icon 07 Nov 2025 A tag icon bsd it Table of Contents Installation (in the sandbox) Fix problem with JNA Startup script Notes I spent few hours trying to launch home automation software — OpenHAB (4th version) — to the my NetBSD box. If installation didn't cause any problems, then I got some tricky error about JNA 1 while the system was starting up. Why I selected the OpenHAB? I searched…
A calendar icon 05 Nov 2025 A tag icon photo Table of Contents Birbs! Insects Cats Some street photos "Undefined" hacker's festival Birbs! A lot of them! Insects Cats Some street photos Figure 1: Translation: "You can love bald people too" "Undefined" hacker's festival
A calendar icon 10 Oct 2025 A tag icon emacs it Table of Contents Pros Cons Switching from use-package to "old-school" configuration Loading packages Delighting modes Hooks Keybindings Configuration variables Code Modes Custom faces Note about readability Results Notes The use-package . It is a very popular part of Emacs software, which can be met in the various configuration examples,…
A calendar icon 20 Sep 2025 A tag icon bsd it This little instruction covers Slidgram 1 installation in NetBSD OS. Sadly, the Slidge project recommends to use Docker to install and use their server and there are no detailed description how to install this program to the server "as usual" — just a one pip install command. So, I'll cover some pitfalls here. All actions were performed inside separate…
A calendar icon 15 Sep 2025 A tag icon it Table of Contents Preamble Installing sandboxctl Sandboxctl prerequisites Describing sandbox netbsd-native netbsd-release Hooks Running sandbox Using sandboxed program at system startup Notes Disclaimer: I'm not a professional system administrator. I'm just worked as sysadmin for a few years, so I know something, but that's all. So this guide is not some…
A calendar icon 28 Jul 2025 A tag icon bsd it Table of Contents Preamble Studying the Libreboot log Studying the FreeBSD dmesg log Removing non-existent battery Replacing iwm driver with iwlwifi Turning off unnecessary USB devices Results Preamble Since I took my laptop (Thinkpad X220) from the shelf, hacked it, and installed FreeBSD 14.2 and Coreboot on it — I found that suspend/resume times are…
A calendar icon 24 Jul 2025 A tag icon bsd it Table of Contents Preamble High DPI Update 2026-01-22 Keyboard configuration Rewrite configuration for xorg.conf Multimedia keys Pointing devices Touchpad Trackpoint Trackball Mouse Drawing tablet Screensaver Disable screensaver for fullscreen videos Update 2025-12-13 (xlock): Compositor (no, not that thing from Wayland) Changing size of usual windows…
A calendar icon 09 Jul 2025 A tag icon bsd it thinkpad Table of Contents Preparations Installation Results Before, I wrote a lot of rumblings about my problems with FreeBSD Stage 3 loader with removed graphics support (because of Netflix) and with Libreboot ( corebootfb version): here , here and here . But at one good night I was searching in the Internet for information about how well the…
A calendar icon 06 Jul 2025 A tag icon bsd it Table of Contents Notes ### # ### ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### # # # # # # # #### ### # # After you see list of loading kernel modules by the loader , press any letter key to go to the loader 's console. List ZFS Boot Environments with lszfs zroot/ROOT . Reboot Right after the BIOS is finished loading, press any letter key to go to the boot2…
A calendar icon 30 Jun 2025 A tag icon emacs it Table of Contents Preamble Emacs configuration template How is it starting? Daemon startup script for FreeBSD Emacs early initialization Emacs initialization Some necessary plugins first Keybindings Cursor in the minibuffer's prompt Common configuration variables Interface configuration UTF8-related variables History preservation variables…
A calendar icon 15 Jun 2025 A tag icon photo Table of Contents Reptiles and snakes ("Reptilium") Some arts on the same festival Streetphoto A birbs! Experiments with CGA/EGA and dithering This spring I made a lot of photos. Especially the photos of reptiles and snakes on the local festival. Also, I made some experiments with reduced color palletes (like CGA and EGA ) and with dithering . Thanks to…
A calendar icon 25 May 2025 A tag icon it ____ __ ___ /\ _`\ /\ \ /\_ \ \ \ \L\ \_ __ __ __ ___ ___\ \ \____\//\ \ __ \ \ ,__/\`'__\/'__`\ /'__`\ /' __` __`\ \ '__`\ \ \ \ /'__`\ \ \ \/\ \ \//\ __//\ \L\.\_/\ \/\ \/\ \ \ \L\ \ \_\ \_/\ __/ \ \_\ \ \_\\ \____\ \__/.\_\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \_,__/ /\____\ \____\ \/_/ \/_/ \/____/\/__/\/_/\/_/\/_/\/_/\/___/ \/____/\/____/ This post will (I hope not) become a…
A calendar icon 30 Mar 2025 A tag icon bsd it Table of Contents Preamble Poudriere installation Removing unwanted dependencies More complex examples of deWaylandization Ports flavors Patching Makefile Results and thoughts Notes Preamble My everyday FreeBSD system has two good old components for graphics and sound — the X Server and the OSS. There are simple reasons to use these components — they…
A calendar icon 16 Mar 2025 A tag icon photo This winter I have photographed much less than usual — because of the mud on the roads, the temperature around -15°C…-20°C, the almost permanent absence of sunshine and the gray clouds that completely cover the sky —as much as possible motivates me to keep my nose out of the street. Fortunately, there were a couple of days with the sun: But for the most…
A calendar icon 16 Mar 2025 A tag icon photo Этой зимой я фотографировал гораздо меньше обычного — потому что грязь на дорогах, холод в районе -15°C…-20°C, практически постоянное отсутствие солнца и низковисящие серые облака, полностью закрывающие небо — максимально мотивируют не высовывать и носа на улицу. К счастью, парочка дней с солнцем всё таки были: Но в большинстве своём, если не учитывать…
A calendar icon 10 Mar 2025 A tag icon bsd it thinkpad Table of Contents Bootloader Direct Rendering Manager kernel module /boot/loader.conf /etc/rc.conf /etc/sysctl.conf X Window System Power management Networking USB tethering Storage Fingerprint scanner Files to download Notes Since I've wrote post about my specific FreeBSD settings for Thinkpad X220 near 5 years have passed. That post has a…
A calendar icon 08 Feb 2025 A tag icon it Table of Contents Preparations before flashing the phone's memory Bootloader unlock Rewriting the system software Lineage OS install Root user access 4G calls and SMS Disabling nonsensical popup when copying text Turn off USB debugging Applications with root access Application stores Firewall (AFWall+) System-wide ad blocker (AdAway) AccA — to control…