Denny White
From SmlugWiki
Started working with Linux in the late 90's. Hosted my own domain using Slackware, Apache, with redirection from mydomain.com account to my home router ip. Got away from Linux for quite awhile, using first FreeBSD, then OpenBSD for a secure email station, and at present, using both. I have FreeBSD 5.4 running on an old dual processor HP Netserver, and OpenBSD running on a PIII I had originally built for my son. He pretty much trashed it, so I did some refurbs on it including a new mobo and more ram, and now I'm using it to follow OpenBSD stable. Have started recently downloading quite a few Linux live cd's and have been trying to teach my other son how to use them, along with the benefits of them. I think they're a great learning source and will greatly help advance opensource, especially since folks can pretty much use them without any changes to their existing windoze systems, while learning what great os's and software is out there, if you're willing to read and do a little sweating over the keyboard. I'm about to the point where I might not need old Bill's products at all, once I get a new scanner hooked up. Still hunting around eBay and Sane, trying to decide. And yes, that's old beastie on my cap.
20070209 Just an update. Currently running OpenBSD 4.0 from a snapshot about 3 weeks old. Unsupported, at least as the misc mailing list figures in, but built it from source rather than doing a binary upgrade. Old Epson scanner's working fine, including from the Gimp. Been messing around with multimedia some. Like streaming in jazz late at night, as well as NPR newscasts and watching avi and mpg movies. These 2 extra OpenBSD really came in handy the last week or so, burning cd's for my girlfriend to donate to the Buddhist temple in New Orleans. I told her I didn't want to wear out my dvd burner on another box. ;)
20080711
New web site and blog for OpenBSD newbies at:
http://polarwave.openbsd101.com
20100110 Read an article, IPv4 Runs Low Faster Than IPv6 Is Adopted, at http://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center/ipv4-runs-low-faster-than-ipv6-is-adopted.php and remembered some of the comical discussions we've had about our ISP's and IPv6. So, I uploaded a pic here on the lug with my take on what it's gonna be like around 2012 trying to get an IPv4 address. :-)
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20100720 Finally have IPv6 setup properly on my WRT54G-TM router. IPv6 connectivity working perfectly on my laptop (yes, it's windows - boo! <g>) and also on my OpenBSD box when I temporarily disable my pf firewall. Now I've got to figure out how to pass what and what to still block. Fun, fun. ;)
