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The screenshot is of my screen. I was using it to attach to an OpenBSD co-located server and develop my million monthly page view PHP website. I'm also a contr

The screenshot is of my screen. I was using it to attach to an OpenBSD co-located server and develop my million monthly page view PHP website. I'm also a contributor of werc, the system used to develop the cat-v website (though I am not active any more) I was also one if the last people to talk to Uriel (cat-v originator) before he suicided. AMA

mundanevoice 11y ago
What do you do now? Do you still use OpenBSD?
- SixSigma 11y ago
  I got fed up with programming data driven websites (I'd been doing them since the 1990s - I'm 46) so I got qualified in AutoCAD, got a job as a draughtsman, did day release in Manufacturing Engineering, got into Six Sigma (I'm a green belt) and am currently doing a degree in Supply Chain Management with a focus on Computational Logistics. I still use OpenBSD for myself, I went from BSD/386 -> FreeBSD -> OpenBSD. I've never really liked Linux (I'm in the "GNU is not useful" camp) and Free became less attractive over time. I feel most at home on Open. I don't use Plan9 for much atm. which makes my heart ache.
  - chadzawistowski 11y ago
    You might be able to use Plan 9 in userspace with 9vx. Thoughts? Or is it just too much hassle to deal with both worlds, when OpenBSD covers most of your needs?
    - SixSigma 11y ago
      Although it is a great technical accomplishment I never got on with 9vx. Plan9port is my usual first installation on a system and plan9 in qemu so I can drawterm in and do stuff. When I say I don't use Plan9 it is because of a lack.of technical need. I do a bit of Javascript hobby stuff and my Uni work / consultancy is done in Python because of the pervasiveness of Windows.
mveety 11y ago
I talked to Uriel about a week before he left. Sucks that he's gone.
- SixSigma 11y ago
  I wonder if he would be happier if he knew how people would miss him. I still sometimes say to myself "Uriel will like this, I'll show him..... Oh no I won't". I am not as angry with him about it as I was but still full of regret that I didn't do more to get him away from his situation. I knew he was suicidal, I knee he had bought this suicide pills too, my last Skype message is "don't drink the wrong water" - which helpfully pops up in the "most recent" window when I use Skype. At least I have stopped crying about it. As he would say "everything sucks, some things suck less"

mundanevoice 11y ago

What do you do now? Do you still use OpenBSD?

SixSigma 11y ago
I got fed up with programming data driven websites (I'd been doing them since the 1990s - I'm 46) so I got qualified in AutoCAD, got a job as a draughtsman, did day release in Manufacturing Engineering, got into Six Sigma (I'm a green belt) and am currently doing a degree in Supply Chain Management with a focus on Computational Logistics. I still use OpenBSD for myself, I went from BSD/386 -> FreeBSD -> OpenBSD. I've never really liked Linux (I'm in the "GNU is not useful" camp) and Free became less attractive over time. I feel most at home on Open. I don't use Plan9 for much atm. which makes my heart ache.
- chadzawistowski 11y ago
  You might be able to use Plan 9 in userspace with 9vx. Thoughts? Or is it just too much hassle to deal with both worlds, when OpenBSD covers most of your needs?
  - SixSigma 11y ago
    Although it is a great technical accomplishment I never got on with 9vx. Plan9port is my usual first installation on a system and plan9 in qemu so I can drawterm in and do stuff. When I say I don't use Plan9 it is because of a lack.of technical need. I do a bit of Javascript hobby stuff and my Uni work / consultancy is done in Python because of the pervasiveness of Windows.

mveety 11y ago

I talked to Uriel about a week before he left. Sucks that he's gone.

SixSigma 11y ago
I wonder if he would be happier if he knew how people would miss him. I still sometimes say to myself "Uriel will like this, I'll show him..... Oh no I won't". I am not as angry with him about it as I was but still full of regret that I didn't do more to get him away from his situation. I knew he was suicidal, I knee he had bought this suicide pills too, my last Skype message is "don't drink the wrong water" - which helpfully pops up in the "most recent" window when I use Skype. At least I have stopped crying about it. As he would say "everything sucks, some things suck less"