Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

only50000hours @only50000hours@bsd.cafe

6/10/2025, 9:58:41 PM

Public

I’m installing a Windows 7 VM using #bhyve and GEOM Gate at the moment. This is quite impressive (not the Windows part). I don’t have a CD drive in my bhyve machine, but my laptop has. So I put that Win7 CD into my laptop, SSH-remoteforwarded GEOM gate’s default port 3080 and told bhyve that /dev/ggate0 is a CD drive. And it just works, no questions asked, no complaints, super easy. GEOM Gate seems to exist for ages, just discovered it, never heard about it before.

Four terminal windows on an XFCE desktop. In the upper left: GEOM gate server output (laptop with CD drive). In the upper right: GEOM gate client output (machine without CD drive running bhyve hypervisor). In the lower left: Windows 7 installation boot screen (running on bhyve using remote CD drive). In the lower right: ggatec(8) manual page window.

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