I've been using FreeBSD and OpenBSD on and off for about
the last 8 years. Started out with FreeBSD after running
Slackware and Apache server for about 6 months to host my
domain out of my home. I used an account at mydomain.com
to provide stealth redirection to my router which forwarded
port 80 calls to my server. IP address wasn't guaranteed
static, but it seldom changed. Ran FreeBSD and Apache for
another year, hosting the domain, then had to let it go
for a business pursuit that eventually didn't pan out.
Now I'm back to hacking around on my computers at home and
getting ready to get another domain possibly. I run OpenBSD
3.9 on an old HP Netserver circa '98, a not quite so old
home built PIII, and an old Toshiba 4015CDT laptop. Got
another home built PIII running XP, but that's for when I'm
feeling lazy. I hope to eventually be able to pay back the
BSD projects for all they've done for me and so many others,
by having a domain with enough gigs per month to be able
to run a mirror for at least one of the projects. Meantime,
I'm currently involved in trying to learn more about pf,
multimedia, printing, et al.
Got an old Aprioris from a friend who had it given to him
from a local yacht club after hurricane Katrina. It's got
6 1G drives and, being old and expendable, it's a good
candidate to practice on. I was also given a Dell 2.22
Celeron which I added an extra hard drive to, a new hotter
video card instead of using the integrated one, and 1.5G of
RAM instead of the 384 it came with. I also put in an extra
fan to make sure things stayed cool. Then, on top of all
the other good luck, a friend sent me a 2.66 P4 cpu, so I
swapped the old one out and installed it. Now all I need
are possibly some street slicks, flames on the side and a
coon tail on the antenna and I'll be set. ;)
I hope to publish as many help files and tutorials here as
time permits. And, it'll help me learn more about gopher.
My blog is at:
http://polarwave.blogspot.com
Email me at : dancer68 at sdf dot lonestar dot org
