Jun 07 2007
(Nerdy) Family Reunion…
So, I’m currently on a 5 day training course in work on the Internals of BSD by none other than Kirk McKusick (one of the original 1970s BSD hackers, in case you don’t know your computer history). The course is very, verg good (imagine a CS Operating System course, merged with a hardware couse; but taught by a knowledgeable lecturer because they pioneered this stuff!!!).
I’m finding it quite amusing that many people are hearing interesting features in FreeBSD that is (finally) making them interested in playing with BSD, they all keep downloading the isos to play with on test systems or under a VM system. This made me smile while I continued to setup my new FreeBSD 6.2 server in Germany (more to follow on that), in addition to other machines, such as my FreeBSD 6.2 router at home and other random machines here and there… 
This evening was particularly interesting, when I got Kirk, Eric, a few colleagues and quite a few members of “the family” (well, at least the majority of us still in Ireland – Dave, Ian, Niall, Ian and myself) together for drinks. Drinks and nerdy conversations ensued, which was definitely good fun.