My First Blog

All the old bits and pieces have resulted in two more computers. The boot disk, a 428 MB IDE was my old testbed system disk. It still works. Unfortunately /usr is gone but a 9 GB full hight SCSI still has a FreeBSD UFS filesystem on it. That drive was retired about two years ago. Till on the floor are a 120 MHz Pentium and an old 33 MHz 486.

The left over parts and some stuff my ex-wife left here will be disposed of this week.

So very much going on but where to start. My current projects are:

• Commit fwbuilder upgrade


• Pending my investigation of what happened to the Enterprise Audit Shell, the author is a bit cagey about some legal issue, use the last open source version as a basis for a FreeBSD port


• Work the myriad of screen issues


• Upgrade my server system from it’s current 1.8GHz P4 to something more powerful and use the 1.8 GHz processor in my firewall.


• Clean up the four obsolete systems lying here on the floor, a 33 MHz 486, 120 MHz 586, 133 MHz 586, 333 MHz P II, and a 730 MHz P III. Soon to be retired might be one 750 MHz AMD Athalon and maybe two 933 MHz P III’s, I haven’t decided yet about these. At least the new main server and new testbed can build ports and src a lot faster, though the firewall is now a little overpowered for what it does, but that’s OK.



Other than that the knee injury is healing and the other issue in my life was just resolved yesterday. Work on the book is proceeding.