Happy Birthday Austin!!!! On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 9:08 AM Austin Hook <aus...@computershop.ca> wrote:
> > Just noticed your post about, among other things, the old big puffy > wireframe stickers. Nice story about getting back into OpenBSD. > > There are quite a few of those stickers left over from the old days, when > we ran the first version of the OpenBSD store. Lifetime warrantee on > anything we ever sold -- well if there's still any left; but it's my > lifetime I'm talking about, so wish me well, birthday coming up next week > or so -- getting very close to 80. Will mail you one. > > Casual discussions sometimes still occur on the advocacy@ mailing list. > but few folks subscribe any more. It should be revived. > > Austin > > > On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Greg Thomas wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > Wow, it looks like I haven't run OpenBSD since 2006 according to the misc > > archives. I guess I got too busy with my shit corporate job which I quit > > in 2014 to roast coffee full time. And then I guess I got too busy to > move > > on from my comfort zone as my old OpenBSD laptops died. But with the > > current lockdown in Los Angeles giving me a little bit of time to explore > > tech along with Windows 7 being unsupported I figured I'd try to move > back > > to my favorite OS. I bought a pretty much unused Thinkpad X220 on Ebay > > (it's in better shape than the last X220 was when I bought that one 6 > years > > ago, so super score). > > > > So, I'm still refamiliarizing myself with OpenBSD and was wondering what > > the biggest changes have been for a regular user since 4.0? The first > > thing I've seen is rcctl. > > > > Also, has anybody ever reprinted the large wireframe Puffy sticker from > > around 15 years ago, or still have one for trade/sale? I still have the > > T40 with my last one stuck to it. > > > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/QTPhKrMraZ4m4oPUA > > > > I'm thinking about trying to pull it off to stick it on to this X220 > > somehow. > > > > I also did a little poking around last night for window managers/desktop > > environments. I used to use WindowMaker but I'm thinking about trying > > something more featureful. So far during my searching I've seen > > recommendations for cwm in base, and then stuff like spectrwm and MATE. > > I'm pretty sure I'm *not *going to stick with fvwm. Is there anything I > > absolutely have to check out before I add windowmaker (or maybe xfce)?. > > > > The only problem I've had so far is I have no wired Ethernet here, urndis > > was failing me with my OnePlus 6t phone and I just couldn't take the time > > to troubleshoot, and I just couldn't seem to add the iwn firmware after > > copying it to /tmp from my USB stick (I got "file:/tmp/: empty" after > > running fw_update -v -p /tmp iwn) so I took my laptop to my neighbor's > > ethernet and easily added iwn. Running fw_update -vn -p /tmp now seems > to > > work fine, I'm not sure what I was doing wrong previously. > > > > I've added chrome obviously, and am happy to see my label app on > Avery.com > > works fine which is the only thing other than email and Google Docs that > I > > really need for the coffee business. > > > > I also just installed Audacity because I started a noise project about a > > year ago so I need to do some basic sound editing. I'll give the GIMP a > > try again for my photography but I may hang on to my old X220 to use > > Windows 7 and CS4 PS offline. And now that I'm done with this email I'm > > going to watch the end of Charlie Jade with VLC. > > > > Thanks folks! If this is inappropriate for misc let me know which forums > > are best to join, for whatever reasons I'm not a reddit user yet but if > > need be I'll start an account there for OpenBSD, coffee, and noise. > > > > Greg > > > > get.misc.open...@gmail.com /home/austin/mail/newmisc 56199 > > >
