Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:38:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: adonai@jump.net (Lee Crites) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mcgovern@spoon.beta.com, hackers@freebsd.org, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: Commerical applications (was: Development and validation Message-ID: <199701172038.NAA08968@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970117145154.006c95d0@jump.net> from "Lee Crites" at Jan 17, 97 08:51:54 am
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> I plan on writing a book on some advanced programming techniques. I have a > rather nice ipc stuff (socket class, shared memory, and semaphores mostly) > as well as some template based stuff, all of which are being redone with > pthreads. It is my intention to complete the work on my FreeBSD box. All of > the code will run, as it will be supplied, on FreeBSD as well as AIX. Hmmm... I recently exchanged some email with Robert Corbett of Sun (the official maintainer of Berkely YACC) about adding multithreading and C++ support to YACC. He basically gave me carte blanche to do it. I'm nearly done with it now... > On another, only quasi-related, point, I remember seeing a message about the > lack of FreeBSD t-shirts. I replied to one of the 'core' types about how I > knew a local (Austin, Texas) t-shirt company that might just be interested > in making a new group FreeBSD genre of t-shirts. I didn't get anything else > back on that. While I am sure there will be a ton of legaleese to wade > through (which is about 3,000 pounds more than really needed), it might be > nice to check it out. If I do it or someone else does (or continues to do) > it, it doesn't matter. I'm not thinking of making money on this (I would > just pass it on at cost). But if *I* had some nice FreeBSD t-shirts, I'd > wear them to work. Yes; me too. The ones I bought from Walnut Creek make the daemon look like he has gas. Can't wear that to a conference at Microsoft. Can't really wear it to work... not even as high quality as my Dilbert shirt from Cray... 8-(. Any chance of Dilbert and Phil the Prince of Insufficient Light standing there looking disturbed at the BSD daemon as Phil asks "Who the heck are you supposed to be?". 8-) 8-). > Also, I try to give out t-shirts at Christmas to all of my people (workers > and clients). It might be cute to have the "Powered by FreeBSD" logo right > there under the Computer Mavericks one. *Whoever* does the t-shirts would > get *my* order every November. Yes; there is not enough understated propaganda material. The plush daemons would have been perfect for my niece, who I am trying to corrupt so that she fondly remembers a favorite stuffed animal that isn't a teddy-bear (her current favorite is a polyester stuffed goldfish); but the price was 10 times what other stuffed toys that size go for. 8-(. Also, there's other possibilities... For instance, a nice embroidered daemon in place of the standard alligator or polo pony... not those "full web page on the front and back of the shirt, stand still for 10 minutes so I can read it" type things, either. Mouse pads wouldn't hurt, either. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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