From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 21 08:46:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26281 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 08:46:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA26272 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 08:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id RAA20461; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:46:12 +0100 (MET) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:46:11 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mike Smith , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A day in the life of a hacker (was: Re: 'Code Freeze') References: <11036.890349578@time.cdrom.com> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 21 Mar 1998 17:46:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 15:19:38 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 62 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > [long rant] Once in a while, maybe every two weeks, in between work and studies, I get bored. So I think to myself, hey, I have some time to kill - why not make world? So I switch to the virtual desktop where cvsup has been sitting for three weeks because I can never be buggered to log out and hit the little green arrow. A few minutes later, when the disks have stopped their chatter, I go find me a root shell, and type: root@valinor ~# cd /usr/src root@valinor /usr/src# make buildworld 2>&1 | tee ~/make.world.log and go read a book. I'm heavily into Piers Anthony these days. A little more than an hour later, Valinor goes silent and I put down my book and sit down at the console. I kill off my horde of emacsen, Ctrl-D my dozen xterms (don't ask me what I need a dozen of xterms for) and 'shutdown now'. Then comes: # . ~/.bash_login root@valinor ~# cd /usr/src root@valinor /usr/src# make installworld 2>&1 | tee -a ~/make.world.log (pick up my book again for 10-15 minutes) root@valinor /usr/src# cd /sys/i386/conf root@valinor /sys/i386/conf# config valinor (yes, I always reconfig for fear of significant changes in files.i386) (at two seconds a line, I could prolly read a paragraph or two in the time it takes config to do its deed, but I can't be buggered) root@valinor /sys/i386/conf# cd /sys/compile/valinor root@valinor /sys/compile/valinor# make (book, 5 minutes) root@valinor /sys/compile/valinor# make install root@valinor /sys/compile/valinor# fastboot (guess what I do for ~3 minutes) And, well, whaddya know, in slightly less time than it takes me to read half a chapter - with 128 MB RAM and two 2940s, she's a slow booter - she's back up, alive and kicking and purring like a cat. Not a single glitch, not a single complaint, her fan doesn't even miss a beat. I'd say I'm in love if I didn't suspect it'd lower my chances of picking up girls. So keep it up, guys, nobody can do it quite the way *you* can. Oh - and by the way, methinks 2.2.6 is gonna be the best release in a long while. It certainly has added more "marketable" functionality (e.g. PnP support, new audio drivers) than any previous release I can remember. Then again, I haven't been around more than two years or so. DES (who feels guilty for not helping Jordan push the cart) -- fprintf(stderr, "I have a closed mind. It helps keeping the rain out.\n"); To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message