This page is about the C shell command line interpreter for FreeBSD and configuring it for use as shell. Updated 2024-02-16.
Continue reading “Configuring C shell on FreeBSD”Author: Micski
Micski lives in Copenhagen, which is the capitol city of Denmark, where he's a system administrator of information technology and a semi-professional poker player.
What is a command interpreter shell?
The different shells, also known as command interpreters, are utilities, that reads commands from the terminal or from a file and presents them for the operating system to execute. Shells can have features, such as command line editor, word completion, word listing, spelling correction, history mechanism and job control.
Continue reading “The different shells in FreeBSD”The width and other features of tables and columns in WordPress can be customized with additional CSS. This is also known as custom CSS.
Continue reading “Aligning table columns with custom CSS in WordPress”The default audio device in FreeBSD can be set with the utility sysctl on the command line. This means default microphone input and default sound output. Note, that setting the default audio device in FreeBSD is different from setting the Output Device in Sound in GNOME, which only affects a few applications, such as Firefox.
Continue reading “Setting default audio device in FreeBSD”Sometimes, even though you have closed all applications, you can experience, that FreeBSD and other operating systems can not unmount an external USB disk drive or other mounted device, because of the error message Device busy.
Continue reading “Unmounting a busy device on FreeBSD”Review of Havit KB496L RGB backlit mechanical keyboard for FreeBSD desktop computers and Android smartphones.
Continue reading “Havit KB496L mechanical keyboard for FreeBSD.”I snugged a camera into my bag and went for a peaceful walk in the evening sun and calm sea at the beach Amager Strand.
Continue reading “Evening at Amager Strand.”In this example, a FreeBSD bootable USB memory stick will be prepared, so it can be used to boot a computer and install FreeBSD on it.
Continue reading “Preparing a FreeBSD bootable USB memory stick.”FreeDOS is a free and open source operating system variant of the classic MSDOS from the 90’s, just like DRDOS and PCDOS from the time. FreeDOS can be used to run legacy business software and classic games for MSDOS. In this example, FreeDOS 1.3 is installed as a guest in VirtualBox 6.1 on a FreeBSD 13.2 desktop computer.
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