Re: How do you do "family remote support"?

[Joseph Pumphrey]

Make your support contingent on in-person in-kind services like enjoying a
meal together or having them help you move furniture.

On Jul 13, 2017 01:21, "Niels Kobschätzki"  wrote:

>
> > On 13. Jul 2017, at 00:35, Rui Ribeiro  wrote:
> >
> > "I dont do Windows!" works pretty well...
>
> Damn, they use MacOS ;)
>
> Niels
>
>

Re: Is 6.1 expected to happen soon?

[Joseph Pumphrey]

Warning: Feckless opining

This is one of the nicer things about OpennBSD from a syadmin perspective.
The release cycle is predictable, and while you may not get a feature you
want from the core utils in the n+1 next release you can be sure that any
new features have been dogfooded thoroughly and are reasonably well-vetted.
Rather than waiting 3-5 years for a "Feature" release and hoping they had
time test all those weird and wonderful new things they are trying to make
their system do.

On Nov 3, 2016 08:45, "Özgür Kazancci"  wrote:

> +1
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:56 AM,  wrote:
>
> > I know, it'll happen when it happens...
> >
> > I have a few servers that could really use the updated SMP stuff that
> > -current has. For some applications it's a night and day difference, but
> > I'm not all to comfortable running -current on production machines. I'm
> > just trying to gauge whether or not i should hold out a bit longer or
> just
> > bite the bullet and test some snapshots. With 6.0 being released in
> > September i am not sure if i should expect 6.1 any time soon.

Re: Would you use OpenBSD on Power8, and if so what applications? (IBM asks! They're thinking about donating hw.)

[Joseph Pumphrey]

IBM is a storied company with a history of innovation and progress. They
have contributed to computing as a discipline in various ways.

And if you want to know what one totally unqualified OpenBSD user thinks,
the best way they could contribute to OpenBSD is funding. 10,000 USD is an
IBM i series Account Rep's expense report total for a quarter. 1,000
dollars is what some of their executives are allowed to spend on a guest
chair for their office. Donating in those amounts would support OpenBSD
adequately.

Adding some zeros to those figures would be evidence of an energetic
support for Open Source software indeed!

On Oct 19, 2016 00:26, "Mikael"  wrote:
>
> 2016-10-19 12:59 GMT+08:00 Ralph Siegler :
> ..
>
> >  too expensive to have for development, too expensive to run, to
> > expensive for a userbase while businesses waited for a mature version,
no
> > compelling use case in the open source world that couldn't be done with
> > Xeon drawing half to a third the power.
> >
>
> Ralph,
>
> At 2850 to 5300 USD for rack chassi+mobo+CPU, I think Power8 servers do
> make sense - it seems like a great way to diversify from AMD64, while
still
> in a robust server architecture.
>
> Oracle have been talking about making a low-end server model of their new
> Sparc64 chip, I guess that one will sell at around 5000 USD too.
>
> So then there's two alternative architectures to AMD64, great!
>
> (I didn't see any convincing ARM64 servers on the market yet.)

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

[Joseph Pumphrey]

On Mar 30, 2016 4:29 PM, "Mihai Popescu"  wrote:
>
> I can see now why our keyboards are using Ctrl key, PgUp, PgDn, or why
> the serial port is so close programmed using terminal terminology.
>
> Thank you and please excuse me for the OT.
>

I still have IBM 122-key keyboards lying around from working in government
buildings and ripping out old terminals. Quite an education, as was this
thread!