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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