first time poster, long time burner

Unread post by **liknites** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 11:06 pm

Howdy, y'all!

My first experience with hacking was playing with Iomega ZipDrives and MS-DOS.
I got into Linux at the bottom of the recession when I was totally broke. I sold
my nice laptop and bought an $80 retired business notebook on eBay. Windows was
too slow, so I looked into Linux. After printing out the full Slackware manual at
the University library for free (sneaky), I got stuck on setting up WiFi. Just
now really got comfortable with ip, iwconfig, wpa_supplicant, and dhclient.

Anyway, I've been running BBQ spins for a few years. Best one's Malgus, love
DebianJoe's blog too. These days I'm grilling on my tiny Atom netbook and
ricing OpenBSD on the Core2Duo desktop. Recently been playing with Plan 9,
roasting my own BSD-P9P attempted spin.

I'll stop my preening and get back to work. The BBQ has taught me so much,
thanks!

Unread post by **dkeg** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 12:57 am

welcome liknites; glad to see you register and post. Don't hesitate to post up some more!

Unread post by **Dr_Chroot** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 1:20 am

Bonjour ami!

Yes, please, drop by more often :D Glad to have you at the BBQ! Plan9 and BSD-P9P, eh? Sounds like you could help expand the breadth of the community here :)

P.S. Your avatar is fantastic!

Unread post by **darry1966** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 2:36 am

Welcome liknites,

Glad to have you as a member of this community.

Unread post by **vic** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 7:40 am

Welcome to the roasthouse liknites, thanks for the intro. Great to see that you are into the BBQ for some time, hope you will your enjoy stay here. Yes the avatar is fantastic.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 9:33 am

Welcome - liknites.
Seems like you'll be a good fit :)

Unread post by **bones** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 2:03 pm

Welcome to the grill, liknites!

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 3:11 pm

Welcome Sir!

Unread post by **liknites** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 8:22 pm

Thanks everybody for the warm welcome!

Wolf Hall really struck me with its colorful world:
shining gold, bruning red, grey velvet, rich indigo,
dark brown, etc. My experience with Plan 9 also made
me rethink the gut reaction I had against graphical
interfaces. It's almost like most screenshots I see
are either hacker dark, MacOSX light, or solarized &
powerlined (gasp!). Luckily, we have grillmeisters
like Dkeg to shine light in the darkness!

Long story short, rewatching the show and concurrently
drinking too much wine the other night led me to start
developing a full-feat JWM "Tudor" desktop --- complete
with Junicode and Pre-Raphaelite wallpaper! I'll share
when it's ready. :)

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 9:12 pm

hahaha, cool. welcome liknites, hope to see you around more often :)

Unread post by **DebianJoe** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 10:07 pm

Welcome welcome.

I need to get back to posting on my blog again, and this is the first chance I've had to even log on since I moved my family into the middle of nowhere (note: I DO have interwebz here!) As soon as I get done crying in the corner about the fact that I've probably totally made a huge mistake that I'll never be able to cope with fully, drink myself into oblivion, and possibly come up with a creative new toy; I'll get back to work.

Good having you around liknites.

Unread post by **simgin** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 10:42 pm

Holy crap Liknites, you sound like you are pure BBQ material mate :)
Welcome to this fine forum, and please spread your Plan9 stuff around. We like the clean effective shit around here :D

cheers
Simon

PS. Sorry for my swearing, but I am in a good mood atm ;)

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:43 am

liknites wrote:
Anyway, I've been running BBQ spins for a few years.

Wow. Nice to hear that. Welcome.

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 10:12 am

@DJ: good to hear from you DJ. i'm sure you'll get out of whatever mess you think you got yourself in. i'm sure it isn't as bad as you fear as well :)

Unread post by **dkeg** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:15 am

Ha, eloquently put liknites. And thanks for the compliment.

Joe, indeed good to see you. As you know, I have experience with what it seems you're dealing with. Stay strong and follow your instincts.

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