Hello there
Paul Robinson
paul at iconoplex.co.uk
Sat Feb 4 19:04:28 GMT 2006
On 4 Feb 2006, at 18:46, Zoe Parsons wrote:
>> Heh, isn't it "The City of Brighton and Hove" these days? ;-)
> Not over this end it isn't. ;-)
I've always been slightly surprised by how many BSD types seem to
congregate around Brighton-ish way. Maybe it's because I'm a gruff
Northerner who assumes the South is there for opulent indulgence of
the uneducated middle classes, whilst all the cool kids hang up
here. :-)
Of course, the first European BSD conf was in Brighton, notable in my
mind for several reasons:
1. Paul Richards set it up, the same guy who a few months ago told
this very list that BSD was dying and that he would have nothing to
do with. A decision all the more remarkable as he used to be a member
of core, and I think was responsible for the original setup of the UK
FreeBSD mailing lists... I seem to remember me blaming him for
contributing to the brain drain at that conf by filling the terminal
room with OS X boxen, an accusation he refuted, which he has now
fulfilled...
2. I had a bit more hair back then according to the photos I just
found. I was also a lot heftier. Go nutrition and exercise! Woo! Go
Gillette Mach 3 blades and shaved heads being in fashion! Woo wooo!
3. My bar bill was in the hundreds because I bought everybody beer.
Never again.
4. I've just remembered a famous conversation where a certain member
of the FreeBSD community tried chatting up a barmaid by convincing
her that we [the conference] were "the guys who invented the
Internet...". Classic. Best thing is, she wasn't impressed!
So, who is still on this list that went to that conf?
Anyway, when I get back to doing some active work with FreeBSD I
might consider making good on my 5-year long promise to try and
organise a conference up here in Manchester.
> I have to admit I've just given up with NetBSD again for a few days
> due to it being annoying at the install. However I've got the
> machine to put Free on setup now so that's tomorrow sorted. :-)
Friday afternoons are for installing FreeBSD. Sundays are for
designing and developing a new installer for NetBSD. Go on, you know
you want to.
BTW, for those who haven't heard, booting *BSD on an intel Mac
requires fiddling with EFI, which in turn is likely to brickify it.
And you thought NetBSD on Mac kit was fiddly to get installed....
--
Paul Robinson
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