Mastodawn

Started on the Uni Ultrix machine. Then got introduced to the NeXT cube lab. That was home for me. Got the lab for the GUI and could always ssh in (or was it telnet...uuuhh) from about. Oh, and the NeXT lab was run by an IRCop (A F Daniels). Flunked out of college due to the internet. IRC particularly.

Started an ISP using BSDi. Couldn't afford a BSDi license for home, so ran FreeBSD. Started #freebsdhelp on Efnet in late 99. We actually helped then...now it is...a waste.

Got word that the Secret Service was looking at some associates for piracy. Ditched my last WinNT4 install due to that and went straight freebsd.

At one point I owned a mono slab NeXTstation. I was proud of that.

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House Panther

May 6, 2024

@sblaydes @Dianora @jess Hey! I remember #freebsdhelp. I just don't remember the username I was using at the time. But it was a great channel.

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Scott Blaydes May 6, 2024

@Dianora @housepanther @jess We had started #freebsdhelp back in '99 I believe.

Course like all of the internet, we dropped out and it evolved in a different direction.

Anubhav Mar 6, 2023

To users of #ZFSOnRoot #RootOnZFS on #FreeBSD on #Framework #laptop #FrameworkPuter,

If you had updated the #BIOS, how did you do that? Did you need to restore the #EFI configuration somehow?

#FreeBSDHelp

Scott Blaydes Nov 27, 2022

@EsperantoStar Helped start an dialup ISP with BSDi's BSD/OS v2.0. We used that because another ISP that I had helped used it.

At home, I install FreeBSD 2.1.5 to learn more for the BSD/OS. I couldn't afford a license for BSD/OS, so freebsd was a natural choice for learning.

Eventually we got more comfortable with FreeBSD then the BSD/OS, so used FreeBSD for new servers. Then we replaced the BSD/OS servers with FreeBSD.

Got a piracy scare back then decided that I liked the FreeBSD for, so deleted all the windows and warez that I had to go legit.

Back then I had a dual Pentium Pro 180mhz tower with scsi 9gb drives. That was really cool at the time.

Started #freebsdhelp with Ghostrdr on EFnet IRC.

Moved to Texas and worked as SysAdmin for another ISP/WISP. Ran FreeBSD on servers there.

Had a few years that were more Linux related than BSD, but moved on to my current work that is FreeBSD based,