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  • Site with nice pictures

    Barenova – nice pictures.

  • When USB devices don’t run properly in VirtualBox guest

    Since FreeBSD is not officially supported by Oracle, they don’t make extension pack for it. For this reason all USB 2 and later devices will most likely fail in guest operating systems with weird errors (devices are recognized but they do not work later). Workaround for this is to force device to 1.1 within host…

  • Making GNOME 3 usable under FreeBSD

    As usable as it could be after their developers got infected by that brain parasite (it is funny how functionality-wise pretty much everything is done in wrong way). Plugins needed/enabled: To be able to install extensions from your browser make sure /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin in your path. In order to have screensavers make sure…

  • Script to clean ports

    Since make clean seems not to work properly anymore#!/bin/sh cd /usr/ports for port in find . -name work -type d | sed -E -e ‘s/\/work.*$//’do cd /usr/ports/$port make cleandone

  • Running Cinnamon on FreeBSD 10

    If it fails to start complaining that it can’t find any theme install x11-wm/metacity

  • Compiling latest versions of monodevelop on FreeBSD

    Clone their repository from git (tarballs created by them fail way too often) git clone https://github.com/mono/monodevelop.git Optionally checkout version you want to run (list tags by running git tag -l in that newly created monodevelop dir, and checkout one you want using command similar to git checkout tags/monodevelop-5.7.1.47).After that you need to edit file monodevelop/scripts/configure.sh…