How does an IT worker and CIS student spend a long weekend? Sitting in front of a computer, apparently…
I snagged a refurb Seagate hard drive for cheap, dropped it into the Sun Blade to replace the crappy old 5400-rpm drive that I’d initially put in it, and installed a fresh snapshot of OpenBSD 4.4-beta. While I was at it, I scrounged up a spare keyboard, monitor and mouse, then installed Fluxbox and a handful of other packages. The end result? I now have a nice graphical workstation on hand in case one of my other machines suddenly dies.
Right now I’m rsyncing over my most important files and making sure everything works as expected; no surprises so far. The more I use OpenBSD, the more I like it. It’s easy, in the odd way that a UNIX-ish operating system can be easy. Pretty much all the configuration is done through nicely formatted .conf files that live in /etc, the man pages are well-written and up-to-date, and there’s none of the ugly hackishness you see in some Linux distributions.
Still, I really should do something non-computer-related this weekend. Maybe tomorrow I’ll even go outside!
But… going outside will dash any hopes of maintaining a pale, sickly skin tone.
I’ve seen pics.
No worries there.
Outside?! But, but.. THE DAYSTAR! IT BURNS!!