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Topics on this blog include computing, retro-computing, operating systems, math, and whatever other technical subjects I happen to be exploring that I find interesting enough to take and share notes about.

Posts

• Feb 21, 2021

  Vim User Manual in txt and ps and pdf us-letter

  This note describes how to create a pdf (and ps, and txt) version of the latest Vim documentation. I got sick of trying to find a useable and current pdf on the web, so I just figured out how to do it from source and am posting the howto for others who might come after.

  This is current as of February 17, 2021.

• Feb 12, 2021

  freebsd 2021 ep 1 installation

• Oct 26, 2020

  An Open Letter to Apple and the Time Machine Bug

  Dear Apple,

  This morning, I had a row in your Apple Technical Support forums that I thought I should preserve.

• Sep 20, 2020

  freebsd 2020 ep 7 all about manpages

• Sep 18, 2020

  freebsd 2020 ep 6 system programming who command

• Sep 15, 2020

  freebsd 2020 ep 5 playing with zfs and zfs snapshots

• Sep 13, 2020

  freebsd 2020 ep 4 updating your freebsd 12.1 system safely with zfs boot environments

• Aug 6, 2020

  Installing freebsd 8.4 to work with Kongs driver book

• Aug 5, 2020

  freebsd 2020 ep 3 installing plasma on freebsd 12.1 on virtualbox 6.1

• Aug 5, 2020

  freebsd 2020 ep 2 freebsd 12.1 on virtualbox with xorg twm and lumina