Just noticed your post about, among other things, the old big puffy wireframe stickers. Nice story about getting back into OpenBSD.
There are quite a few of those stickers left over from the old days, when we ran the first version of the OpenBSD store. Lifetime warrantee on anything we ever sold -- well if there's still any left; but it's my lifetime I'm talking about, so wish me well, birthday coming up next week or so -- getting very close to 80. Will mail you one. Casual discussions sometimes still occur on the advocacy@ mailing list. but few folks subscribe any more. It should be revived. Austin On Wed, 10 Jun 2020, Greg Thomas wrote: > Hey all, > > Wow, it looks like I haven't run OpenBSD since 2006 according to the misc > archives. I guess I got too busy with my shit corporate job which I quit > in 2014 to roast coffee full time. And then I guess I got too busy to move > on from my comfort zone as my old OpenBSD laptops died. But with the > current lockdown in Los Angeles giving me a little bit of time to explore > tech along with Windows 7 being unsupported I figured I'd try to move back > to my favorite OS. I bought a pretty much unused Thinkpad X220 on Ebay > (it's in better shape than the last X220 was when I bought that one 6 years > ago, so super score). > > So, I'm still refamiliarizing myself with OpenBSD and was wondering what > the biggest changes have been for a regular user since 4.0? The first > thing I've seen is rcctl. > > Also, has anybody ever reprinted the large wireframe Puffy sticker from > around 15 years ago, or still have one for trade/sale? I still have the > T40 with my last one stuck to it. > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/QTPhKrMraZ4m4oPUA > > I'm thinking about trying to pull it off to stick it on to this X220 > somehow. > > I also did a little poking around last night for window managers/desktop > environments. I used to use WindowMaker but I'm thinking about trying > something more featureful. So far during my searching I've seen > recommendations for cwm in base, and then stuff like spectrwm and MATE. > I'm pretty sure I'm *not *going to stick with fvwm. Is there anything I > absolutely have to check out before I add windowmaker (or maybe xfce)?. > > The only problem I've had so far is I have no wired Ethernet here, urndis > was failing me with my OnePlus 6t phone and I just couldn't take the time > to troubleshoot, and I just couldn't seem to add the iwn firmware after > copying it to /tmp from my USB stick (I got "file:/tmp/: empty" after > running fw_update -v -p /tmp iwn) so I took my laptop to my neighbor's > ethernet and easily added iwn. Running fw_update -vn -p /tmp now seems to > work fine, I'm not sure what I was doing wrong previously. > > I've added chrome obviously, and am happy to see my label app on Avery.com > works fine which is the only thing other than email and Google Docs that I > really need for the coffee business. > > I also just installed Audacity because I started a noise project about a > year ago so I need to do some basic sound editing. I'll give the GIMP a > try again for my photography but I may hang on to my old X220 to use > Windows 7 and CS4 PS offline. And now that I'm done with this email I'm > going to watch the end of Charlie Jade with VLC. > > Thanks folks! If this is inappropriate for misc let me know which forums > are best to join, for whatever reasons I'm not a reddit user yet but if > need be I'll start an account there for OpenBSD, coffee, and noise. > > Greg > > get.misc.open...@gmail.com /home/austin/mail/newmisc 56199 >
