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

2017-07-13 Thread 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

Re: Is 6.1 expected to happen soon?

2016-11-03 Thread 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 a

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

2016-10-18 Thread 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

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

2016-03-30 Thread 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 wor