I've met the man behind Fark. Dial-a-Dork Radio interviewed Drew Curtis at Notacon last night for something like an hour. Fun guy, knows his shit. The Fark servers run FreeBSD. I was wearing a NetBSD t-shirt and scowled jokingly.

Also at Notacon, some guy brought an IBM PS/2 luggable. 386DX, 8MB RAM, 115MB ESDI hard disk, MCA bus. Of course it was running NetBSD, and I helped get it on the conference network. Getting a copy of its dmesg output took a little creativity, since scp would have taken infinitely long doing all that crypto. Who wants to guess how I managed to do it?

Just before Notacon, I installed a developer preview of Mac OS X 10.4 on an idle blueberry iMac. With / on case-sensitive HFS+, using pkgsrc is nearly as easy as on NetBSD. Many fewer hoops to jump through than on previous versions of OS X. These findings will, of course, be included in my pkgsrcCon talk next month.